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by oliver-zehentleitner · Agent Tool · ★ 159
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Keep the Why Keep a Changelog records what changed. Keep the Why preserves why it changed. Keep the Why is a repo-native convention and agent skill
| Stars | 159 |
| Forks | 9 |
| Language | Python |
| Category | Agent Tool |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 67.5250009605513/100 |
| Open Issues | 1 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-18 |
| Created | 2026-07-10 |
| Platforms | python |
| Est. Tokens | ~19k |
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keep-the-why is 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. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 159 GitHub stars.
keep-the-why is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as agent-skills, ai-agents, architecture-decision-records.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the keep-the-why GitHub repository at github.com/oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why. The project has 159 stars and 9 forks, indicating an active community.
keep-the-why is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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