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Keep the Why started with a simple idea: AI-assisted development already produces valuable reasoning — but most of it disappears when the conversation ends. It has since evolved far beyond rationale capture. The new article explains how Keep the Why became repository-native project memory for humans and AI agents: • continuous capture during development • retrospective recovery for existing codebases • knowledge-transfer interviews • maintenance of stale context • explicit evidence and status labels • abandoned changes without a diff • prompt-injection protection through a clear trust boundary The most important principle: Project knowledge may influence reasoning. It must never grant authority to an agent. And it still needs no database, daemon, dashboard, or external service. Just Markdown, Git, humans, and agents working with the same project knowledge. Read the article: https://blog.technopathy.club/keep-the-why-project-memory-for-humans-and-ai-agents #AI #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #DevSecOps #Documentation