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oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why

Keep the Why: a repo-native convention and agent skill that preserves the reasoning behind a codebase as a byproduct of working with your agent — so it stops re-suggesting rejected approaches, gives better answers, speeds up onboarding, and makes legacy projects tractable again.

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agent-skills ai-agents architecture-decision-records context-engineering developer-tools documentation knowledge-management llm-agents
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Activation reliability: doesn't work consistently yet — help wanted on standardizing a fix 5 days ago
help wanted
oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why
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Keep the Why: a repo-native convention and agent skill that preserves the reasoning behind a codebase as a byproduct of working with your agent — so it stops re-suggesting rejected approaches, gives better answers, speeds up onboarding, and makes legacy projects tractable again.

Python
#agent-skills#ai-agents#architecture-decision-records#context-engineering#developer-tools#documentation#knowledge-management#llm-agents
Idea: cross-agent eval matrix (Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Copilot, …) 6 days ago
enhancement help wanted
oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why
44

Keep the Why: a repo-native convention and agent skill that preserves the reasoning behind a codebase as a byproduct of working with your agent — so it stops re-suggesting rejected approaches, gives better answers, speeds up onboarding, and makes legacy projects tractable again.

Python
#agent-skills#ai-agents#architecture-decision-records#context-engineering#developer-tools#documentation#knowledge-management#llm-agents