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About Sitecore/habitat

Sitecore Habitat is a reference example implementation of a Sitecore solution built on the Helix architecture principles. The project demonstrates how to structure a Helix-based Sitecore implementation with a focus on simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility, showing consistent patterns for organization, tooling for publishing, serialization, and testing, and overall methodology for building modular Sitecore solutions.

The project is explicitly not intended to be used as a starter kit or template for new projects. Instead, it serves as an educational reference for understanding how Helix principles can be applied in practice and how architectural decisions support scalability and maintainability. The repository includes documentation covering installation and usage patterns.

The Habitat project is no longer actively maintained by Sitecore and has been superseded by Sitecore Helix Examples. While it remains a valuable reference for understanding Helix architecture, users are directed to newer resources for current best practices. The project welcomes community forks but recommends renaming them to avoid confusion with other maintained Habitat resources. Questions and discussions about the project are handled through Sitecore Stackexchange and community Slack channels rather than GitHub issues, with GitHub reserved for bug reports and feature requests.