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...
Scanned 9/11/2026
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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 (Claude Code)
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