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CAIRN Handbook

CAIRN Handbook

This handbook explains how QURI builds and maintains CAIRN, its repository of research wikis, as of October 2026. The wikis are drafted largely with Claude Code and checked in review rounds that treat model-written text as claims to verify.

Start with the Review Workflow, the five-stage round used to check the wikis. To build a site of your own from an empty folder, take the Workshop.

One review round: read-only auditors, one per section, feed a single plan and brief; it fans out to parallel editors; each edit is re-checked by a different agent; the parallel edits are reconciled in one pass, built and link-checked, and go up as pull requests with previews. Nothing reaches the live sites until a pull request is merged to main.1 Audit2 Plan3 Edit4 Verify5 Integratemergebriefone passPRslive sitesread-only,per sectionone brief;owner decidesin parallel,own filesnever theeditorbuild,link checkpreviewsfor reviewonly aftermergeOne review round: read-only auditors, one per section, feed a single plan and brief; it fans out to parallel editors; each edit is re-checked by a different agent; the parallel edits are reconciled in one pass, built and link-checked, and go up as pull requests with previews. Nothing reaches the live sites until a pull request is merged to main.1 Audit2 Plan3 Edit4 Verify5 Integratebriefone passPRsmergelive sitesone per section,change nothingone brief;owner decidesin parallel, eachon its own filesnever the agentthat made the editbuild, redirects,link checkpreviews for reviewonly after merge
One review round. Filled dots () are agents that edit; hollow dots () only read, and every edit is re-checked by an agent that did not make it. Work fans out twice, is reconciled in one pass, and reaches the live sites only when a pull request is merged (dashed line).

Handbook

Section titled “Handbook”
Adding a Wiki
From the starter template to a deployed, CI-checked site, in seven steps.
Build & Tooling
The repository layout, llms.txt, the link checker and shared packages.
Review Workflow
How audit and revision rounds are run, from read-only audit to merge.

Workshop

Section titled “Workshop”
Building Research Websites
Start a research website with Claude Code in about an hour.
Claude Code on the Web
The same workshop in a browser, with nothing to install.

The wikis: Delegation Risk, Robust Reasoning Processes, Evaluation Engineering.

Maintained by the Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute. Source on GitHub.