How to navigate this site
The four sections, the contract-style labels you will see, search and keyboard shortcuts, and how to report a mistake.
L.1.53 min readLast revised November 2026
On this page
The site has four sections and one search box. This page explains the labels, which are borrowed from the layout of a federal contract, and the few shortcuts worth knowing.
The four sections#
| Section | What is there |
|---|---|
| Tools | The catalog. Every tool has a page that says what it does, what you bring, what you get and which regulation it is built from |
| Guides | Plain-language guides to the paperwork, plus how to host a copy of the site and how to contribute |
| Platform | How the project decides what to build, builds it and is run. Not needed to use a tool or read a guide |
| About | The mission, the ground rules, how AI is used and the full disclaimer |
The logo at the top left goes to the home page.
The contract-style labels#
Federal solicitations follow a layout called the uniform contract format, which divides the document into lettered sections. The site borrows those letters for its own labels. When you see one, this is what it means:
| Label | In a real solicitation | On this site |
|---|---|---|
Section B, CLIN 0001 | The price schedule, as numbered line items | The five areas of the catalog, each priced at $0.00 |
| Section C | The statement of work | The list of tools |
| Section F | Deliveries or performance | The roadmap on the home page |
| Section H | Special contract requirements | The ground rules that do not change |
| Section J | The list of attachments | The Platform pages, numbered J.1.1 onward |
| Section L | Instructions to offerors | The Guides, numbered L.1.1 onward |
| Section M | Evaluation factors for award | How we decide what to build |
The labels are decoration with a purpose: learn them here and they will be familiar when you open a real solicitation. Read a solicitation explains what each lettered section holds.
Search and filter#
Search the whole site. Press /, or Ctrl-K (Command-K on a Mac), or use the search box in the header. Results cover every tool, every guide, every platform page and the headings inside them. Use the arrow keys to move, Enter to open and Escape to close.
Filter a list. The Tools, Guides and Platform pages each have a filter box above the list. Type one or more words and the list narrows as you type. Several words must all match.
Search and the filters run in your browser. Nothing you type into them is sent anywhere.
On a guide#
- On this page lists the headings. It sits beside the text on a wide screen and folds away above it on a narrow one.
- Each heading has its own address. Hover over a heading and click the
#beside it to get a link to that exact section. - The line under the title gives the section number, the reading time and the month the page was last revised.
- Previous and next at the bottom follow the reading order of the section.
- Tools for this subject, where a guide has them, links to the tools that do the same job.
Keyboard and display#
- Press Tab on any page to reach a Skip to content link that jumps past the header.
- Every link, button and box can be reached and used with the keyboard alone.
- The site follows your system’s light or dark setting.
- Everything except search and the filter boxes works with scripts turned off.
Report a mistake#
Regulations change, and a guide can go out of date. Every guide and platform page ends with a Source of this page link to the text file it is built from, so you can see exactly what it says and when it last changed.
- Open an issue on GitHub, with the regulation that shows the right answer.
- Send a pull request if you know the fix. Work on this site shows how.
- Email [email protected] if you would rather not use GitHub.
Leave real contract data, real rates and anything controlled out of a report. Issues are public.
Found a mistake, or something that has gone out of date? Open an issue or write to [email protected]. This page is a text file you can read and correct: Source of this page.