# kneath/kss

A methodology for documenting CSS and generating styleguides.

Repository: https://github.com/kneath/kss
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kss
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-12-06T06:40:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5395, "days_push": 3192, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4016, forks 266 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:32.399337+00:00)

## What it is
KSS (Knyle Style Sheets) is a documentation specification for CSS plus a Ruby library that parses KSS-documented SASS, SCSS, and CSS files. It enables teams to write maintainable, commented CSS and auto-generate living styleguides from those comments.

## Use cases
- generate a living styleguide from CSS comments
- document CSS components in a team
- parse KSS comments from SCSS files
- build a design system reference site
- extract modifier descriptions from stylesheets

## When to choose
- you maintain a Ruby/Rails app and want styleguides generated from CSS comments
- you want a lightweight documentation convention rather than a full CSS framework

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained tool - the last release was 2017
- you are not using Ruby, since this repo only ships a Ruby parser
- you want a modern alternative like kss-node or a full design-system tool

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, documentation, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, documentation, developer-tools
- platform: ruby
- tags: css, styleguide, sass, scss, design-systems, web-server

## Member repositories
- kneath/kss (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.399337+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 2026-08-29T18:23:58.520318+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kneath/kss (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.399337+00:00, sha bc46abba7e03)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.