Use this skill to turn one or more reasonably stable questions or frames into a proportionate, auditable evidence-and-method plan. Invoke when deciding what observations, analyses, experiments, qualitative work, software probes, or mixed methods would discriminate alternatives; when planning measurement, sampling, triangulation, sequencing, or protected parallel passes; or when evidence cost and value must be balanced. It may route to specialised experimental-design skills. Do not use primari...
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npx -y skills add oaknational/oak-open-curriculum-ecosystem --skill oak-parallax-design-inquiry --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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name: oak-parallax-design-inquiry
description: Use this skill to turn one or more reasonably stable questions or frames into a proportionate, auditable evidence-and-method plan. Invoke when deciding what observations, analyses, experiments, qualitative work, software probes, or mixed methods would discriminate alternatives; when planning measurement, sampling, triangulation, sequencing, or protected parallel passes; or when evidence cost and value must be balanced. It may route to specialised experimental-design skills. Do not use primarily to reframe an unstable problem, execute the methods, reconcile completed reports, choose an action, or run the whole Parallax lifecycle.
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# Parallax Design Inquiry (Cross-tool)
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Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by speaking like caveman while keeping full technical accuracy. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra, wenyan-lite, wenyan-full, wenyan-ultra. Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman", "less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman. Also auto-triggers when token efficiency is requested.