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feat: add wait-what, the verbosity fire extinguisher

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A three-line, user-invoked skill in in-progress/. Fire it when the
agent's last message doesn't land; it re-pitches that message with
the missing context, in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English,
using the ubiquitous language from CONTEXT.md.

The name is the mechanism. Concision skills fail by growing, so this
one is a single precise leading word and nothing else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add **`wait-what`** to `in-progress/` — a fire extinguisher for model verbosity. Fire it the moment a message doesn't land, and the agent re-pitches *that message*: a little context, ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and the ubiquitous language from your `CONTEXT.md`. User-invoked, three lines long.
The mechanism is the name. Concision skills fail by growing — a 400-line skill still leaves the model verbose — so this one is a single precise leading word and nothing else. It also reuses the leading words already in your global `CLAUDE.md`, so the skill, `CLAUDE.md` and every `CONTEXT.md` reach for the same tokens.
It's the extinguisher, not the sprinkler. The cure for jargon is a shared language built upfront with `/grill-with-docs`; this is the in-the-moment corrective for when you don't have one yet.