development

Pre-Alpha. This section describes behavior that may change.

This is the developer's section. The audience is people writing Go code in the Ze repo: building from source, running the test suites, sending patches.

Pages

• Building. Build Ze from source. Targets, prerequisites, common Make targets.
• Repo Layout. The directory tour: cmd/, internal/, pkg/, and the rest.
• Coding Standards. The rules in .claude/rules/ and what reviewers check.
• Testing. Unit, functional, fuzz, and chaos suites, plus the Make targets.
• Debugging. Tools, logs, pprof, and goroutine dumps.
• CI. What runs on every push and how to reproduce a failure locally.
• RFC Implementation. How RFCs are tracked and implemented in Ze.
• Contributing. The contribution workflow, the CLA, and the spec-driven process.
• Claude Code. The project-specific slash commands.
• Performance. The ze-perf benchmark tool for BGP propagation latency.
• Mock Servers. The ze-test mock servers for functional testing.

See also

• Plugin development if you are writing a plugin rather than touching the core.
• In-tree docs for reference material that is not in the wiki.
• main/CONTRIBUTING.md for the canonical contribution rules.