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.

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In a project that uses Keep the Why (a .keep-the-why file at the workspace root, or a legacy keep-the-why:config block in AGENTS.md), load the keep-the-why skill first. Anywhere else, leave the skill alone.

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