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Find the reasons behind your code’s design.

What it does

Explains the decisions and tradeoffs behind code using cited historical evidence.

When to use it

Use for design rationale, past technology choices, regressions, postmortems, and the origins of data-backed thresholds.

How to use it

Give it a question about code or a design decision in your project; it returns a cited explanation separating evidence, inference, and unknowns.

What you provide

  • the code or decision to investigate
  • An existing project

Uses

Good to know

  • starts one helper agent per item, so the count depends on the work
  • starts 1 helper agents

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What you need · 2

Uses the GitHub CLI to retrieve substantive pull requests, including their bodies, comments, and reviews.

Directs the agent to follow its Subagents section when choosing each helper's reasoning level and speed.


Access · 5

This skill

GitHub

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Reads pull requests and reviews

Databricks

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Queries historical analytics data