What problem does it solve? Code tells you what it does but rarely why it exists. This Skill reconstructs the historical motivation behind code—design decisions, tradeoffs, rejected alternatives, and business constraints—by searching fragmented evidence across source control, tickets, docs, chat, observability, error tracking, and analytics systems. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Parallel Multi-Source Investigation: Discovers available MCPs, maps them to seven evidence categories, and spawns one investigator subagent per category to search concurrently. - Confidence-Calibrated Synthesis: A synthesizer subagent merges findings into a cited narrative that strictly separates direct evidence, inference, competing hypotheses, and explicit gaps. - Epistemic Discipline: Enforces a five-tier confidence framework with hedged phrasing rules, contradiction surfacing, and null-result reporting so thin evidence never becomes confident storytelling. - Use Case: Ask why a retry limit is set to 3 in a payment module; the Skill traces the PR, linked Linear ticket, Slack incident thread, Datadog monitor, and Sentry issue to show the threshold came from a specific outage postmortem. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to use the why skill to investigate why a specific function or threshold in your codebase was designed the way it was.