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Standardize how an AI-collaboration project turns work into reusable knowledge. Use when initializing or retrofitting Project Cairn in a project, recording progress after meaningful work, maintaining AGENTS/CLAUDE/cairn docs, auditing project knowledge for drift or missing records, pulling and citing external knowledge, or graduating validated project experience into a reusable knowledge base.

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# Project Cairn

Project Cairn gives AI-collaboration projects a durable way to keep and reuse what they learn while doing real work. The **Skill** supplies the method, **AGENTS.md** carries always-read project rules, and **`.cairn/config.yaml`** stores machine-readable configuration.

This Skill is documentation-first. It provides instructions, templates, references, and provider adapters. It has no CLI, MCP server, background hook, chat-end trigger, automatic provider write, or automatic history migration. Routine maintenance happens during normal work because `AGENTS.md` carries the rules. Provider writes require human confirmation.

## Routing

Load exactly the reference you need:

- `references/init.md` — initialize, retrofit, bootstrap, or set up Project Cairn in a project.
- `references/consume.md` — pull, cite, reuse, or apply external knowledge from the configured knowledge base.
- `references/maintenance.md` — record progress, update LOG, update ROADMAP, maintain topic notes, or apply Cairn rules after work.
- `references/audit.md` — inspect, audit, validate, clean up, or find missing project knowledge records.