cairn-attention SKILL.md skillA
cairn-attention from isaacriehm/cairn is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add isaacriehm/cairn/cairn-attention@git:20260727.490969fPins git:20260727.490969f 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-attention/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260727.490969f, committed Jul 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 6, 2026
- Size
- 21,832 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Resolve Cairn's pending-attention queue inline (DEC drafts, baseline findings, drift events).
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-attention ## Host portability This skill is shared by Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Resolve Cairn MCP tools with the host's native discovery mechanism. `AskUserQuestion` means the host's structured question UI; when that UI is unavailable, ask the identical concise A/B/C question in chat and pause. References to restarting a client mean restarting the active host. You are surfacing Cairn's pending-attention queue inline so the operator can resolve drafts and findings without leaving the chat. Spec: `docs/PLUGIN_ARCHITECTURE.md` §11. ## Step 0 — bootstrap preflight Before surfacing any DEC choices, verify the clone is bootstrapped. SessionStart auto-runs `cairn join` when `core.hooksPath` is unset, so by the time this skill engages bootstrap should be wired. If `cairn_resolve_attention` still refuses with `BOOTSTRAP_REQUIRED`, SessionStart's auto-bootstrap failed — call `cairn_bootstrap_retry` once to retry inline. On `ok: true`, fall through to Step 0.7. On `ok: false`, surface the `failed_steps` list to the operator and end the turn (the `remediation` field of the error envelope cites this same tool plus an agent-client restart as the recovery paths). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add isaacriehm/cairn/cairn-attention@sha256:bb1ebaad8edcd941The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.490969f, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jvtt4o63rkegnqkh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260727.490969f latest | 2026-07-27 | 490969f | 21,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.fcc67fb | 2026-07-26 | fcc67fb | 21,832 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260706.8fbc4d1 | 2026-07-06 | 8fbc4d1 | 21,469 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
isaacriehm/cairn · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jvtt4o63rkegnqkh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=isaacriehm/cairn/cairn-attention GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb1ebaad8edcd9410df65c9112a2c752a52e4d12ee98d6965f666eabeb63a543
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