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Why is this code like this - a git-log chain over one file[:line], joined to the phase, task, decision, deviation and review record on disk

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$ npx -y skills add crenshawdev/cadence --skill cad-why --agent claude-code

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cad-why.SKILL.md
name: cad-why
description: "Why is this code like this - a git-log chain over one file[:line], joined to the phase, task, decision, deviation and review record on disk"
argument-hint: "<path>[:<line>]"

<objective> Answer "why is this code like this" from the record already on disk, at one file and line. Read-only: no write, no dispatch, no summarization - the seam does the whole join and this skill relays what it returns. </objective>

<process> 1. Run the seam with the query as ONE single-quoted literal word: `node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/bin/why.mjs" '<path>[:<line>]' --dir .` Single quotes, never double: `$ARGUMENTS` is caller-supplied, and a double-quoted `$(...)` or backtick inside it runs before Node starts. A query containing a single quote is refused here, never escaped. Parse the one JSON line it prints. 2. `ok:false` - state the `reason` and `detail` fields plainly and stop. 3. `ok:true` - print the `text` field VERBATIM and nothing else: no summary before it, no commentary after it, no reformatting. `text` is already the whole answer, quoted from the record in its own words - reformatting it here would make the byte-identity a reader can check against the seam's own output false. </process>

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cad-why installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.