Developer Guide

This section collects repo-facing guidance for contributors and maintainers who need to understand the release tooling, runtime behavior, and extension boundaries.

• Architecture
  • Module structure
  • Backend abstraction
  • DecisionAnalysis flow
  • Data flow and boundaries
• Profiling and Performance
  • Baseline scaffold
  • Workflow
  • Artifact format
  • How to read the outputs
  • Promotion criteria for SIMD or accelerators
  • Related guidance
• Rust Core Handoff
  • What stays in Rust core
  • What stays in bindings or adapters
  • How to add a new deterministic method
  • How result envelopes and reporting stay stable
  • Compatibility notes
• Rust Parallelism And CPU Performance
  • Concurrency policy
  • Safety constraints
  • Workloads that benefit from Rayon
  • SIMD measurement guidance
  • Benchmarking expectations
  • Summary
• Rust Accelerators and Feasibility Boundaries
  • What is plausibly GPU-bound
  • Why TPU or custom-circuit support is only conditional
  • Non-goals
  • Practical guidance
• Versioning and Release Policy
  • Canonical version source
  • Release tags and package registries
  • Validation
  • Release flow
• Community Support
  • Support paths
  • What a good support request looks like
  • Community expectations
• How To Contribute
  • Start here
  • Working style
  • Conductor workflow
  • Branching and PRs
  • Testing and coverage
  • If you are adding a new VOI method
• Implementing New Methods
  • Before you start
  • Method shape
  • Implementation checklist
  • Stable-method guidance
  • When a method is experimental
• Polyglot Tooling and Observability
  • Tooling parity
  • Versioning contract
  • Logging policy
• SOTA Strategy Orchestration and Dependency Matrix
  • Why this exists
  • Shared decisions that should be treated as prerequisites
  • Parallel lane map
  • Recommended execution order
  • Release and publishing playbook
  • Compatibility matrix
  • HPC and accelerator gates
  • Documentation architecture rules
  • Subagent partitioning
  • Dependency sketch
• Starlight Documentation Platform
  • Baseline Decision
  • Required Plugins
  • Conditional Plugins
  • Migration Boundary