Elicits design facts and formalizes guiding principles into a repo's DESIGN.md.
npx skills add https://github.com/jmgirard/cairn --skill design-interview-jmgirard
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: design-interview Source: https://github.com/jmgirard/cairn/tree/main/skills/design-interview Command: npx skills add https://github.com/jmgirard/cairn --skill design-interview-jmgirard
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Run the design-interview skill, which asks batched questions about intent the code cannot show, then formalizes the answers into numbered IP (inviolable) and GP (guiding) principles written to cairn/DESIGN.md.
Phase 1 elicits facts — audience, contract boundary, platform and API-stability commitments — and only banks proto-principles. Phase 2 formalizes those candidates, stress-tests them against Phase-1 decisions, and writes the settled principles to DESIGN.md.
Yes. When cairn/PROFILE.md declares guest collaboration mode, the interview captures your understanding of the maintainers' intent, and every principle written is marked provisional until the upstream maintainers correct it.
The preserved file is never edited or renumbered. Each numbered principle enters Phase 2 as a candidate, receives an explicit disposition, and a lineage map from old #N to new IP/GP ids is recorded in DESIGN.md.
Do not run it before scaffolding: if the repo has no cairn/ directory, the skill stops and routes you to /cairn-init first. It also performs no code edits, so it cannot replace implementation milestones.
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