Repository
oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why agent skills
- skill
- 1
- GitHub stars
- 210
GitHub description: “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.”
- Stars
- 210 (11 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Jul 2026
- Homepage
- keepthewhy.com
- agent-skills
- ai-agents
- architecture-decision-records
- context-engineering
- developer-tools
- documentation
- knowledge-management
- llm-agents
- git
- project-memory
- coding-agents
- repo-native
- repo-local-memory
Install all skills
npx skills add oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-whyAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why, ranked
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In a project with a .keep-the-why, or asked about it or to set one up (never offered or named otherwise) - extract and preserve the reasoning code cannot explain - decisions, rejected alternatives… | oliver-zehentleitner/ | 210 | — | ~9.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why?
Keep The Why from oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why ranks first of the 1 skills in oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 210 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 9.8k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings.
Are the skills in oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why official?
None yet. All 1 skills in oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why?
Run npx skills add oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.