# Developer guide

> Architecture, engine internals, the plugin system, and the contribution workflow — for engineers building Eventboat itself or compiling in plugins.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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These guides are rendered at build time from the
[eventboat/eventboat](https://github.com/eventboat/eventboat) repository;
edit them there, under docs/developer/.

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Section pages:

- [Architecture & package map](/docs/developer/01-architecture/)
- [Engine internals](/docs/developer/02-engine/)
- [Plugin system & registry](/docs/developer/03-plugins/)
- [Configuration & diagnostics](/docs/developer/04-config-pipeline/)
- [Expressions & scripting sandbox](/docs/developer/05-scripting/)
- [Observability & operations](/docs/developer/06-observability/)
- [Testing guide](/docs/developer/07-testing/)
- [Building & release](/docs/developer/08-building/)
- [Contributing](/docs/developer/09-contributing/)