Cairn Updated

A work harness for AI coding agents: plans in git, every piece of work mirrored to your real issue tracker, memory that admits when it’s stale, goal-backward verification, cross-vendor adversarial review, budgeted headless runs, and guards that refuse instead of quietly succeeding — born a Claude Code plugin, running on seven other harnesses too.

July 24, 2026 · 19 min · 4023 words · John Reed

Cairn Quick-Start

Zero to a tracker-mirrored project in about fifteen minutes — install cairn, wire up your issue tracker (including every step that happens outside Claude), and run your first phase.

July 24, 2026 · 5 min · 943 words · John Reed