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.
oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why has 198 GitHub stars. It gained +10 stars over 1 recorded day in the last 7 days (snapshots through Oct 7, 2026).
Its biggest recent day was Oct 7, 2026, with +10 stars.
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