cairn-adopt-components SKILL.md skillA

cairn-adopt-components from isaacriehm/cairn is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add isaacriehm/cairn/cairn-adopt-components@git:20260726.fcc67fb

Pins git:20260726.fcc67fb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
isaacriehm/cairn
Path
packages/cairn-plugin/skills/cairn-adopt-components/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260726.fcc67fb, committed Jul 26, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 6, 2026
Size
12,858 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
MIT

Backfill the Cairn component store into a project that was adopted before the component store shipped.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Skill: cairn-adopt-components

## Host portability

This skill is shared by Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Use the host's
structured question UI when available; otherwise ask the same concise A/B/C
question in chat and pause. Named subagent briefs live under `../../agents/`:
dispatch by name where supported, or read the brief and pass it to the host's
native subagent tool. Execute inline only when no subagent tool exists.

You are backfilling Cairn's **component store** into an already-adopted
project — the one-time work the adoption pipeline does for fresh repos,
applied to a repo that predates the store. The goal: every component
file carries a `@cairn` registry header, the derived index is built, and
`@singleton` headers become §INVs. Spec: `docs/PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE.md`
§6 (the component trio 9d→9e→9f) and `docs/COMPONENT_STORE_PLAN.md`.

This skill drives the bundled `dist/cli.mjs` internally using the plugin-root
variable supplied by the active host (`PLUGIN_ROOT`, `CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT`, or
`CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT`). **Never
surface a CLI subcommand to the operator** (Plugin spec §11) — the chat
shows progress + consent gates, not commands.

## Step 0 — classify the repo
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add isaacriehm/cairn/cairn-adopt-components@sha256:d4e6bd3ca44d880a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260726.fcc67fb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_akjd66gvptd7ddkk.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_akjd66gvptd7ddkk)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 26, 2026, about one every 21 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260726.fcc67fb latest2026-07-26 fcc67fb 12,858 BA view · diff
git:20260706.8fbc4d12026-07-06 8fbc4d1 12,389 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12858 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

isaacriehm/cairn · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_akjd66gvptd7ddkk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=isaacriehm/cairn/cairn-adopt-components
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d4e6bd3ca44d880a85ca1c83c145de9976c928264fd2a2d269f485dcc0dcdd84

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