/cairn-direction

description: 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.