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Getting Started Overview

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This is an Astro 6.x SSG-first agency and small-business theme. It provides a component system, design token architecture, content collections, and a validation pipeline for building production informational and marketing websites. This topic collects everything you need to orient yourself: the theme overview, onboarding guide, documentation standards, and project governance.

Who this is for

  • Implementors — building or customizing a site using this theme. Start with the theme overview, then move to configuration and design tokens.
  • Developers — extending the theme with new components, layouts, or integrations. Start with the theme overview, then the platform topic for architecture and validation.
  • AI agents — generating code, content, or configuration for sites built on this theme. Start with the theme overview, then the file ownership model, validation pipeline, and documentation guide.
  • Editors — managing page content, blog posts, and site copy. Start with the theme overview, then the content authoring guide.
  • Anyone proposing changes — understanding the governance model, change control process, and requirements lifecycle before modifying project scope or standards.

Key concepts

  • Theme overview — what the project is, its tech stack, and how the major systems fit together. The single best starting point for any audience.
  • Onboarding — step-by-step guide for getting a local development environment running and making your first changes.
  • Site setup — bootstrapping a new downstream site from the core theme: repository creation, remote wiring, configuration, and pre-deploy validation.
  • Documentation guide — how to write, structure, and maintain docs in the theme-docs system, including frontmatter schema, ordering conventions, and the deprecation process.
  • Governance and change control — how decisions are made, the frozen charter’s role, the requirements lifecycle, and approval workflows for commits and status changes.
  • Requirements catalog — the canonical specification layer: how requirements are structured, what statuses mean, and how to use the requirements browser.

In This Topic

  • Governance and Change Control — How decisions are made, documented, and enforced — charter amendment process, requirement lifecycle, decision log conventions, and approval workflows.
  • Onboarding Guide — Getting started from scratch — cloning the repo, initial setup, first site configuration, first content page, and first deploy.
  • Requirements Catalog Overview — How the canonical requirements system works — structure, lifecycle, and how to use the requirements browser.
  • Site Setup Guide — Step-by-step guide for bootstrapping a new downstream site from the core theme.
  • Documentation Guide — How to write, structure, and maintain documentation in the theme-docs system.
  • Theme Overview — What this theme is, what site archetypes it targets, and what is explicitly out of scope for the v1 baseline.

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