keep-the-why
oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-whySkill
In 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. Also the place for questions about how this skill works, complaints, feedback and settings changes about it. Anywhere else - no .keep-the-why, no such request - this skill is neither used nor offered nor named, not even in a closing offer to record something.
Why this score
Popularity score: 72/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit b8099736ab79, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onekeep-the-why oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why · Skill | 72 | ★ 231 | ≈147 always | 17d ago |
| just-keep-swimming cyber-qais/justkeepswimming · Plugin Both about keep | 50 | ★ 5 | not measured | 1mo ago |