generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://www.acus.gov/ (footer + policy pages), https://www.acus.gov/rss.xml,
  https://sourcebook.acus.gov/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo, and response-header
  inspection on sourcebook.acus.gov, all 2026-08-30
provider: Administrative Conference of the United States
providerId: administrative-conference-of-the-united-states
description: >-
  Lifecycle posture for the Administrative Conference of the United States. ACUS runs no
  developer program, so there is no API versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no SLA
  and no status page. What lifecycle signal exists is editorial rather than technical:
  the agency publishes dated recommendations, reports, news releases and a monthly
  Updates in Federal Agency Adjudication, and it exposes a site-wide RSS feed.
versioning:
  policy_published: false
  scheme: >-
    Inherited from MediaWiki. The REST surface is path-versioned at /rest.php/v1/; the
    Action API is unversioned and evolves with the MediaWiki release the wiki runs.
  current_platform_version: MediaWiki 1.43.0
  evidence: >-
    https://sourcebook.acus.gov/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&format=json returns
    generator "MediaWiki 1.43.0", phpversion 8.3.30, git-branch master.
  note: >-
    MediaWiki 1.43 is an LTS release. ACUS makes no commitment of its own about when it
    will move off it, and there is no announcement channel for the wiki.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  evidence: >-
    No Deprecation or Sunset (RFC 8594) headers observed on any probed response from
    sourcebook.acus.gov. No deprecation page exists on www.acus.gov.
  note: >-
    NO Deprecation pointer is emitted in apis.yml — the policy does not exist. Upstream
    MediaWiki emits deprecation notices in the Action API `warnings` envelope, but that
    is MediaWiki's lifecycle, not ACUS's.
status_page:
  published: false
  probes:
    - url: https://status.acus.gov/
      status: '<no response>'
      note: DNS/connection failure — host does not resolve to a reachable service.
    - url: https://www.acus.gov/status
      status: 404
  note: >-
    NO StatusPage pointer is emitted — there is nothing to point at. Federal agency
    sites of this size commonly have none.
sla:
  published: false
  note: No service level agreement, uptime target or support commitment is published.
support:
  published: true
  channel: email
  url: https://www.acus.gov/about-acus
  email: info@acus.gov
  security_email: security@acus.gov
  note: >-
    General agency contact only. There is no developer support channel, no forum, no
    issue tracker and no GitHub organization (api.github.com/orgs/acus-gov 404).
change_communication:
  - name: News Releases
    url: https://www.acus.gov/news-releases
    status: 200
    cadence: irregular
  - name: Blog
    url: https://www.acus.gov/blog
    status: 200
    cadence: irregular
  - name: Site-wide RSS feed
    url: https://www.acus.gov/rss.xml
    status: 200
    format: RSS 2.0 with Dublin Core
    note: >-
      The only machine-readable change feed ACUS publishes. Covers site content — new
      articles, recommendations and announcements — not API changes.
  - name: Updates in Federal Agency Adjudication
    url: https://www.acus.gov/updates-federal-agency-adjudication
    status: 200
    cadence: monthly
  - name: Legislative Updates
    url: https://www.acus.gov/legislative-updates
    status: not-probed
changelog:
  developer_changelog: false
  note: >-
    No dated developer or API changelog exists, so no changelog/ artifact and no
    ChangeLog pointer are written. The MediaWiki content itself is fully versioned —
    every Sourcebook page carries a revision history reachable through
    /rest.php/v1/revision/{id} and action=query&prop=revisions — which is a per-document
    change record rather than a product changelog.
deprecated_operations: []
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
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    email: info@apievangelist.com