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.
Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 235
- +2 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.20.3
- Released 20 days ago
- Built with
- JavaScript
- 57% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 4
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 94% closed
- 2 still open
- Pull requests
- 724 merged
- 4 waiting
- Releases
- 46
- 30+ in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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Languages
- JavaScript 57%
- Python 38%
- CSS 5%
- HTML <1%
Topics
- agent-skills
- ai-agents
- architecture-decision-records
- context-engineering
- developer-tools
- documentation
- knowledge-management
- llm-agents
- git
- project-memory
- coding-agents
- repo-native
Project record
- JobOther AI tools
- StatusListed
- Commits918
- Forks15
- Watching3
- Stars in 28 days+8
- CreatedJul 10, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 10, 2026