There's no need for clarification, y'all just need to learn to apply some critical thinking.

Inner quiet increases by 1 (up to 11) for every successful touch action.

Those actions, when successful, increase inner quiet by 1.

It's not saying instead, they wouldn't write the effects of another buff in a random action's tooltip, it just does as it says.

You have 3 stacks. Prepared touch is successful, thereby increasing quality by X and increasing inner quiet by 1, to 4.
There was a successful touch action, therefore inner quiet increases by 1, to 5.

And even if there's any amount of confusion, it takes 5 seconds to pull up a practice recipe and click the buttons. Trying to word skills by what's going to happen unrelated to their own context introduces far more confusion than it would solve.