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keep-the-why

Preserves or recovers the reasoning behind a codebase — architectural decisions, rejected alternatives, workarounds, incident learnings, operational constraints, and historical context the code itself cannot explain.
Description from the marketplace entry / plugin manifest.

Information source

Copied from the Awesome Copilot plugins (GitHub) catalog (github/awesome-copilot), maintained by GitHub + community contributors.

Marketplace entry: .github/plugin/marketplace.json

Links are pinned to commit b1a0045 (2026-10-26), the version we synced. Not reviewed by us.

Install

In Copilot CLI (the marketplace is registered by default)

copilot plugin install keep-the-why@awesome-copilot

If the marketplace is unknown, register it once

copilot plugin marketplace add github/awesome-copilot

Commands follow each host's documentation (GitHub Copilot CLI docs). gh skill needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later and is in public preview.

Listed from GitHub + community contributors's catalog, not reviewed by us. Read the source before installing.

Catalog: Awesome Copilot plugins (GitHub) (awesome-copilot)
Information source: marketplace.json in github/awesome-copilot
Author: Oliver Zehentleitner
Source code: oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why
Homepage: keepthewhy.com
License: MIT
Repository stars: 231 for oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why
Version: 0.20.3
Added to catalog: Not tracked for this source
Last change: 2026-10-25 (last push to the repo)

What it contains

Hosted in an external repository, so contents are not counted here. See the source link.

Keywords: documentation, context, decision-log, knowledge-management, onboarding, agents

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