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Cairn Research — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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Investigates a topic via parallel subagents into the active task folder.

How to install Cairn Research

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jisundr-cairn-2.0-cairn-research/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jisundr-cairn-2.0-cairn-research && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jisundr/cairn-2.0/HEAD/commands/cairn-research.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jisundr-cairn-2.0-cairn-research/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Cairn Research does

description: Investigates a topic via parallel subagents into the active task folder. argument-hint:

No topic given → ask for one.

Invoke `Skill(skill: "cairn:research")` with it. That skill owns topic resolution and the active-task-folder precondition — this command is only its entry point.

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