ADR for MkDocs's Material Theme
April 3, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
ADR are short text documents that captures an important architectural decision made along with its context and consequences.
Install
pip install mkdocs-material-adr
# or
poetry add mkdocs-material-adr
In the mkdocs.yml file
theme:
# set the name
name: mkdocs-material-adr
# Configuration for the material theme
features:
- navigation.instant
plugins:
- mkdocs-material-adr/adr
- material/search # Note: all material plugin should be namespaced for them to work
Features
ADR Headers
Information about the ADR are displayed in a header Define information about the ADR in the frontmatter.

---
title: 0004 Title
adr:
author: Jean-Loup Monnier
created: 01-Aug-2023
status: draft | proposed | rejected | accepted | superseded
superseded_by: 0001-test
extends:
- 0001-first
- 0002-second
---
You can change the colors or add new status using css
/* Background color */
.c-pill-<lower_case_status_name> {
background: #a3a3a3;
}
/* Dot color */
.c-pill-<lower_case_status_name>:before {
background: #505050;
}
ADR Graph
Auto generated graph.
To enable it add [GRAPH] in the markdown file you want the graph to be, Then add th following configuration
You can also override the graph direction with [GRAPH direction=LR] (default to TD).
plugins:
- mkdocs-material-adr/adr:
graph_file: index.md # Change this to your file
markdown_extensions:
- pymdownx.superfences:
custom_fences:
- name: mermaid
class: mermaid
format: !!python/name:pymdownx.superfences.fence_code_format
