/cairn-direction
Force cairn-direction tightening on the supplied prompt. Escape hatch when auto-invocation misses.
$ npx -y skills add isaacriehm/cairn --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this command gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/cairn-direction
Context preview
What this command does when you run it.
Force cairn-direction tightening on the supplied prompt. Escape hatch when auto-invocation misses.
Command definition
cairn-direction.mddescription: Force cairn-direction tightening on the supplied prompt. Escape hatch when auto-invocation misses. argument-hint: "<task description>"
/cairn:cairn-direction
Manually trigger the `cairn-direction` skill on the argument prompt. Equivalent to the auto-invoked path but bypasses the trigger gate.
Behavior
Treat the slash-command argument as the operator's task prompt. Invoke the `cairn-direction` skill with that prompt. The skill runs its normal pipeline — gather in-scope context, ask load-bearing questions, write tightened spec, dispatch chunks.
If the argument is empty:
> /cairn:cairn-direction needs a task description. Example: `/cairn:cairn-direction add a webhook for stripe disputes`
When to use
- The operator's prior message was conversational ("can we talk about
X") but the operator now wants Cairn to take it as a task.
- Auto-invoke skipped a borderline message (read-only at a glance, but
actually a refactor request).
- Forcing tightening on a partially-specified prompt to surface its
ambiguities before writing code.
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Repo: isaacriehm/cairn
Other commands on cairn.
- /cairn-init
Adopt this project with Cairn — runs the one-time init pipeline inline.
Open command - /cairn-resume
Resume an active Cairn task after `/clear`. Reads the task journal + spec and primes context cold.
Open command - /cairn-statusline-setup
Wire the Cairn `⬡` statusline badge into user-level Claude Code settings. One-time per machine.
Open command