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keep-the-why

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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