oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why · skills/keep-the-why/SKILL.md

keep-the-why skillA

keep-the-why is agent-read markdown (skill) from oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why: 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..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why/keep-the-why@v0.12.0
Exact content
mdr add oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why/keep-the-why@sha256:fc1c7665a166751b

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

Badge

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.12.0 latest2026-09-06 7217f9b 22,379 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-09-06 df56e75 22,379 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-09-06 6144d3d 22,251 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-09-06 dd9b6ba 22,090 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-09-04 b7308ba 21,810 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-09-03 cd20a4a 21,818 BA view · diff
v0.10.12026-09-03 c9d347c 21,818 BA view · diff
v0.10.12026-09-02 15c3d46 18,286 BA view · diff
v0.10.12026-09-01 840a1d5 18,110 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (22379 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why · 152 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4kjdyjnlndezis3p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why/keep-the-why
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fc1c7665a166751b593a4da2c433947bf12a0dbe6d4fea40f5d63cccfb392ad7