# Chirpy Jekyll Theme

A minimal, responsive, and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing.

Repository: https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chirpy-jekyll-theme
Homepage: https://chirpy.cotes.page
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: jekyll-theme, pwa, responsive-web-design, rubygems, jamstack, bootstrap, html5, jekyll, devcontainer
Last push: 2026-07-30T19:35:19+00:00
Link (homepage): https://chirpy.cotes.page
Link (site_page): https://chirpy.cotes.page/about
Link (site_page): https://chirpy.cotes.page/posts/getting-started
Link (site_page): https://chirpy.cotes.page/posts/write-a-new-post
Link (site_page): https://chirpy.cotes.page/tags/getting-started

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 77, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2790, "days_push": 34, "days_rel": 74, "gap_med": 65, "n_releases_24m": 12}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10246, forks 7167 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:41.282656+00:00)

## What it is
Chirpy is a minimal, responsive, and feature-rich Jekyll theme designed for technical writing and personal blogs. It ships as a Ruby gem with a companion starter template, offering dark mode, built-in search, PWA support, comments, analytics, and SEO optimizations out of the box.

## Use cases
- create a personal blog with jekyll
- build a technical writing site with dark mode
- host a static blog on github pages
- jekyll theme with built-in search and comments
- set up a pwa-enabled static blog
- start a blog with math and mermaid diagram support

## When to choose
- you want a polished, maintained Jekyll theme for a blog or docs site
- you need dark mode, search, TOC, and SEO features without extra plugins
- you deploy static sites to GitHub Pages or other Jamstack hosts
- you want easy upgrades via the starter template

## When to avoid
- you use a static site generator other than Jekyll
- you need a highly dynamic, server-rendered application
- you require heavy custom design from scratch rather than a theme

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: stable
- function: static-site-generator, templating, search-engine, theme
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation, web-design
- platform: ruby, cross-platform
- tags: jekyll-theme, jamstack, blogging, pwa, bootstrap, technical-writing, seo, dark-mode, rubygems, web-server

## Member repositories
- cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy (main) score 90
- cotes2020/chirpy-starter (examples) score 72

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:41.282656+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:19:24.597103+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:41.282656+00:00, sha 52df1d6f6931)
  - homepage: https://chirpy.cotes.page (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:53.535460+00:00, sha 3cbbc582ebb8)
  - site_page: https://chirpy.cotes.page/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:53.537918+00:00, sha b8ec53256d4a)
  - site_page: https://chirpy.cotes.page/posts/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:53.539782+00:00, sha d6f4886fab06)
  - site_page: https://chirpy.cotes.page/tags/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:53.544199+00:00, sha 0b7eb5bd2513)
  - site_page: https://chirpy.cotes.page/posts/write-a-new-post (fetched 2026-08-29T08:18:53.542155+00:00, sha 9a2073863d7c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.