# begriffs/css-ratiocinator

because your CSS is garbage

Repository: https://github.com/begriffs/css-ratiocinator
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/css-ratiocinator
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-07-24T17:38:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5213, "days_push": 4058, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1025, forks 41 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:16.570642+00:00)

## What it is
A command-line tool that automatically refactors CSS by examining a site's live DOM in a headless browser and reverse-engineering a clean new stylesheet. It generates a fresh CSS definition that reproduces the original rendered styles down to the pixel, ignoring the source CSS files entirely.

## Use cases
- refactor legacy CSS that has accumulated contradictory rules
- generate a clean stylesheet from a rendered page
- reverse engineer CSS from a live DOM
- clean up stylesheets without reading the original CSS files
- convert a style guide page into a fresh CSS baseline
- remove redundant cascaded styles from a site

## When to choose
- you have old, messy CSS whose rules contradict each other and want a clean regenerated stylesheet
- you have a complete example DOM or living style guide covering your site's states
- you want to derive styles from rendered output rather than source files

## When to avoid
- you need to process a whole multi-page site (not yet supported)
- you need a maintained tool - it depends on the deprecated PhantomJS and hasn't been updated since 2015
- your pages have many dynamic states not present in the markup you provide

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: css-framework, developer-tools, formatter
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: css-refactoring, computed-styles, phantomjs, stylesheet-generation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- begriffs/css-ratiocinator (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.570642+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 2026-08-30T07:08:02.702205+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/begriffs/css-ratiocinator (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.570642+00:00, sha ae2ffca27715)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.