oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why

The why layer of repo-native project memory: the reasoning behind a codebase as Markdown in the repo, versioned by Git, for coding agents and humans, so nothing rejected is proposed twice. No database, no daemon, no account.

Install

npx skills add oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why

gh skill install oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why

Skills in this collection

• KKeep The WhyOliver ZehentleitnerIn a project with a .keep-the-why, or when asked about Keep the Why or to set it up - extract and preserve the reasoning code cannot explain - decisions, rejected alternatives, workarounds, incidents, constraints - plus project setup and maintainer interviews. Not for what changed (see Keep a Changelog) - only why.DevOps & Cloud231 Repository stars