Development workflow

See DEPENDENCIES.md when adding or updating third-party code.

After local installation, the Tilt watcher that up.sh started keeps running: it rebuilds affected images and rolls their workloads as files change. Rerun up.sh to wait for the stack to settle again; do not start a second tilt up. The Kind runbook covers this development loop, local topology, and template builds.

Use focused unit tests for component logic and the Kind smoke suites for runtime behavior. For setup-specific diagnostics, see host-path troubleshooting and template-build debugging.