why
Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, or historical motivation. Investigates source control history and openspec documents in parallel, then returns a cited, confidence-tiered read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for what the code does and how it works.
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- skills/why/SKILL.md
- skills/why/references/epistemics.md
- skills/why/references/investigator-prompt.md
- skills/why/references/source-playbook.md
- skills/why/references/sources/code-archaeology.md
- skills/why/references/sources/incident-postmortem.md
- skills/why/references/sources/openspec.md
- skills/why/references/synthesizer-prompt.md
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