# Compass/compass

Compass is no longer actively maintained. Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.

Repository: https://github.com/Compass/compass
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/compass
Homepage: http://compass-style.org
Language: CSS
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-04-24T17:45:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6584, "days_push": 1227, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6657, forks 1162 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:47.461836+00:00)

## What it is
Compass is a Sass-based CSS authoring framework that provides mixins, reusable patterns, and a command-line compiler/watcher for generating stylesheets. It is officially deprecated and no longer actively maintained.

## Use cases
- compile sass stylesheets to css
- css3 mixins for cross-browser styles
- generate image sprites for a website
- watch and recompile css during development
- maintainable stylesheet organization with sass

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy project already built with Compass
- studying historical Sass-based CSS tooling

## When to avoid
- starting a new web project
- you need actively maintained CSS tooling
- modern CSS features or PostCSS-based workflows are needed

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: css-framework, build-tool, cli
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, cli, cross-platform
- tags: sass, stylesheet-authoring, css3-mixins, deprecated, sprites

## Member repositories
- Compass/compass (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:47.461836+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 2026-08-29T17:43:03.053653+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Compass/compass (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:47.461836+00:00, sha db40f21a046f)
  - homepage: http://compass-style.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:20.139668+00:00, sha c07c691a95e5)
  - site_page: https://compass-style.org/install (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:20.148692+00:00, sha cf4294b0e207)
  - site_page: https://compass-style.org/help (fetched 2026-08-29T08:39:20.151722+00:00, sha 3def71ecdca5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.