Cairn Setup — Development skill for Claude Code
Offers the CLAUDE.md marker, then observe-confirm harness generation; --local writes local prefs; --track toggles marker-ledger tracking.
How to install Cairn Setup
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jisundr-cairn-2.0-cairn-setup/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jisundr-cairn-2.0-cairn-setup && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jisundr/cairn-2.0/HEAD/commands/cairn-setup.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jisundr-cairn-2.0-cairn-setup/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cairn Setup does
description: Offers the CLAUDE.md marker, then observe-confirm harness generation; --local writes local prefs; --track toggles marker-ledger tracking. argument-hint: [] [--local] [--track ] [--untrack ]
Templates: `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/task-assets/assets/` (relative below).
`--track`/`--untrack` → Track mode; `--local` → `--local` mode; else Default.
Default mode
- No root
CLAUDE.md→ say so, stop; never creates one. CLAUDE.mdalready has `<!--
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