# Kaptan Developer Manual

Kaptan is an embedded Rust flight-controller project. This manual is the
single source of project documentation: board support, safety boundaries,
simulation, development workflow, and design references live here as
Markdown.

The checked-in firmware is telemetry-only. It does not expose physical motor
authority, and no document in this site should be read as a physical-flight
release claim.

## Start here

- New contributors should read [Getting started](getting-started.md).
- Board work belongs under [Boards](boards/index.md).
- The currently supported closed-loop simulation is [Host SITL](sitl.md).
- Before submitting changes, follow [Development and verification](development.md).

## Documentation conventions

Documentation is centralized in `docs/src/`; source directories do not carry
README files. Keep pages in Markdown, add each page to `SUMMARY.md`, and place
commands beside the assumptions and safety boundary they depend on.

`TODO(configuration)` marks a required configuration contract that has not
been implemented. It is not permission for an operator to substitute runtime
values or bypass an immutable build-time safety decision.