
Why
by backnotprop3a604672c46cNo license1.3K starsListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated today
Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds. Discovers available MCPs and queries each evidence category (source control, issue tracker, long-form docs, real-time chat, infrastructure observability, error tracking, product analytics warehouse) in parallel, then returns a cited read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for runtime behavior.
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| Path | Size | Type |
|---|---|---|
| references/epistemics.md | 7.6 KB | text/markdown |
| references/investigator-prompt.md | 6.8 KB | text/markdown |
| references/source-playbook.md | 1.3 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/code-archaeology.md | 3.4 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/databricks.md | 6.8 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/datadog.md | 5.2 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/incident-postmortem.md | 1.9 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/linear.md | 2.9 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/notion.md | 2.8 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/sentry.md | 4.8 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sources/slack.md | 3 KB | text/markdown |
| references/synthesizer-prompt.md | 7.8 KB | text/markdown |
| SKILL.md | 10.8 KB | text/markdown |
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