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    "title": "AI Growth Experiment Design",
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Growth experiments are the activity teams do most carelessly. Hypothesis is implicit; metric is improvised; kill conditions are not defined. The result is experiments that run forever waiting for significance and decisions made by intuition rather than data."
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      "text": "The `/surge-experiment` skill designs a single experiment with rigor: testable hypothesis, exact metric and measurement, baseline, MDE, required run time, explicit kill conditions. One unambiguous design per experiment."
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      "text": "Tonone's /surge-experiment skill designs single growth experiments with hypothesis, metric, baseline, MDE, run time, and kill conditions."
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      "text": "Install"
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "`/surge-experiment` ships with the Surge agent in Tonone for Claude Code."
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        "alternative": "Casual experiments",
        "difference": "Casual experiments produce inconclusive results. /surge-experiment defines kill conditions."
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        "question": "What does /surge-experiment do?",
        "answer": "It designs a single growth experiment with hypothesis, metric, baseline, MDE, run time, and kill conditions."
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        "question": "How do I install /surge-experiment?",
        "answer": "Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started."
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