Project Setup FAQs

Question 1

How does this skill improve my research workflow?

Accepted Answer

It eliminates the manual overhead of folder creation and configuration while ensuring methodological rigour. By forcing an early dialogue on your role as a researcher and your view of AI, it prevents 'black-box' analysis and maintains your position as the primary interpreter of meaning.

Question 2

What specific capabilities does it provide?

Accepted Answer

The skill provides Socratic onboarding (5-question philosophical deep-dive), automated folder structure creation, config.json generation, reflexivity journal initialization, and validation scripts to ensure your project meets methodology compliance.

Question 3

Can I skip the long dialogue if I'm in a hurry?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The skill offers a 'Quick Start' mode (approx. 3 minutes) that applies sensible defaults based on the Gioia/Systematic Interpretivist tradition, allowing you to move straight to Stage 1 manual coding.

Question 4

When should I use this skill?

Accepted Answer

Use this skill at the very beginning of a new research project or when you need to formalize the philosophical foundations of an existing study. It is triggered by commands like '/qual-init' or when you tell Claude you are starting a new qualitative project.

Question 5

What does the Project Setup skill do?

Accepted Answer

This skill acts as an epistemic partner to initialize qualitative research projects. It guides you through a Socratic dialogue to define your ontological and epistemological stances, creates a standardized 'sandwich methodology' folder hierarchy, and generates the necessary configuration files and reflexivity journals.

Project Setup

Project Setup

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Key Features

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