Do other qualitative research skills require qual-shared?

Yes, all other qual-* skills depend on these components for shared state management and defensive routing.

Where does the skill store project configurations?

All configurations and state data are stored within the .interpretive-orchestration/ directory in your project root.

What is the primary role of the qual-shared skill?

It provides the core infrastructure for qualitative research projects, managing state, logging, and enforcing methodological boundaries.

How does the skill handle research logs?

It uses a hybrid approach, creating JSONL for machine-readable data and Markdown for human-readable reflexivity journals.

What is the 'Defensive Skill Router' feature?

It is a utility that validates project setup and ensures stage requirements are met before allowing progression to the next research phase.

Qual-Shared Research Infrastructure

Name: Qual-Shared Research Infrastructure
Author: linxule

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Data Science & ML

Manages the foundational state, logging, and workflow enforcement for AI-assisted qualitative research projects.

Qual-Shared serves as the backbone of the Interpretive Orchestration framework, providing essential utilities for state management, batched reasoning logs, and strict workflow enforcement. It ensures project integrity by acting as a single source of truth for research progress, validating project structures, and maintaining a hybrid logging system for transparency. This skill is indispensable for researchers using Claude to perform structured, multi-stage qualitative analysis while maintaining rigorous documentation and an audit trail of the AI's interpretive process.

Key Features

01Defensive skill routing to enforce strict research stage requirements

02Single source of truth state management with optimistic locking

03Hybrid conversation logging in both JSONL and Markdown formats

04Batched reasoning logs for efficient 4-stage documentation

05Automated initialization of standardized qualitative research structures

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Use Cases

01Initializing a standardized directory structure for new qualitative research projects

02Maintaining a transparent audit trail of AI reasoning and reflexivity logs

03Tracking research progress and stage completion during multi-phase analysis

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add linxule/interpretive-orchestration qual-shared

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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