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Concepts

Foundational mental models for working with IPA. Read these pages to understand the vocabulary and architecture before diving into the Quickstart.

  • What Is IPA — Core vocabulary: skills, stacks, tiers, patterns, and composition. What each term means and how the pieces fit together.
  • Organization — How the repository is structured: skill files, CloudFormation templates, generated Makefiles, application code, and where each lives.
  • Lifecycle — The stages an IPA project moves through from inception to POC delivery to production handoff.