# usds/playbook

The Digital Services Playbook

Repository: https://github.com/usds/playbook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/usds-playbook
Homepage: https://playbook.cio.gov/
Language: SCSS
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-10-20T18:18:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 54/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 48, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4411, "days_push": 317, "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 1594, forks 362 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:08.932335+00:00)

## What it is
The US Digital Services Playbook is a Jekyll-based documentation website publishing best-practice 'plays' for building effective government digital services, alongside the TechFAR Handbook on federal acquisition. It is maintained as Markdown content compiled into a static site.

## Use cases
- learn best practices for building government digital services
- read guidance on iterative customer-driven software delivery in the public sector
- understand federal acquisition flexibilities via the TechFAR Handbook
- propose edits to digital services guidance via pull requests
- reference checklist-style plays for digital service delivery

## When to choose
- you work in or with government agencies delivering digital services
- you need authoritative guidance on user-centered digital service delivery and federal procurement
- you want to contribute improvements to public digital services guidance

## When to avoid
- you need executable software, a library, or a framework
- you need guidance for private-sector-only software delivery without procurement context
- you need actively evolving technical documentation rather than policy-style guidance

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, static-site-generator, markdown
- domain: e-government, documentation, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: digital-services, government, jekyll, best-practices, techfar, public-sector, scss, web-server

## Member repositories
- usds/playbook (main) score 54

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.932335+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 2026-08-30T03:54:13.737778+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/usds/playbook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:08.932335+00:00, sha d6ed740cc81c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.