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Investigating the reasons behind a design choice v1.0.0
Use this resource to find the reasons behind a design choice across several sources
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Install with the CLI
In a terminal, from the folder you want:
npx --yes palatekit@latest install design-rationale-investigationWith no option, the skill goes to ~/.agents/skills/; add --agent claude-code (or codex, cursor…) to target an agent.
First time: connect the CLI with
npx --yes palatekit@latest loginThe agent detects the available tools, queries each evidence source in parallel (code, tickets, documentation, chat, monitoring), then writes a sourced reading of the decisions. You get the trade-offs and their sources.
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Updated November 2, 2026
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Details
- Install guides
- Generates with
- Your agent's model
- Licence
- MIT
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What you get
- SKILL.md : investigation steps and parallel investigator roles
- references/source-playbook.md : sources (code, Linear, Notion, Slack, Sentry, Datadog) and epistemic rules
Good fit for
- You want to understand why an architecture choice was made
- You are preparing an incident postmortem
Not for
Tags
- decisions
- design
- postmortem
- trade-offs
About
You say
“Why did we pick this message queue? Search the tickets and the code.”
Skill published by backnotprop under the MIT license, delivered in its original version.
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How to use it
- Install the skill in your agent's skills folder
- Ask your agent to find the reasons behind a design choice across several sources
- Review and adjust the result
Content preview
Files
- LICENSE1.1 KB
- NOTICE-PALATEKIT.md0.4 KB
- references/epistemics.md6.6 KB
- references/investigator-prompt.md5.5 KB
- references/source-playbook.md1.3 KB
- references/sources/code-archaeology.md1.5 KB
- references/sources/databricks.md6.9 KB
- references/sources/datadog.md4.9 KB
- references/sources/incident-postmortem.md0.4 KB
- references/sources/linear.md3 KB
- references/sources/notion.md2.8 KB
- references/sources/sentry.md2.1 KB
- references/sources/slack.md1.3 KB
- references/synthesizer-prompt.md7.1 KB
- SKILL.md9.5 KB
Origin and licence
Listed unmodified
- Author
- backnotprop
- Source
- github.com/backnotprop/pstack/tree/23707a30f9cd2f12edef61f2506e2222e30b35aa/skills/why
- Licence
- MIT
Notice
« why » (backnotprop, MIT) livré dans sa version d'origine : fiche en français et en anglais par PalateKit.
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