PLESTY Contributor Guide

PLESTY is a scientific automation platform built from three kinds of module: a device serves one instrument, an experiment drives several devices through a measurement, and an analyzer turns what the experiment recorded into a result. Everything in the platform — devices, analyzers, experiments — follows a shared governance standard enforced by plesty check.

Device

Python API wrapping a single lab instrument. Runs as a TCP/IP server so other modules can connect remotely.

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Experiment

The measurement: a plan of steps that drives several device servers, records what they return, and hands the records to its analyzers.

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Analyzer

A schema-declared transform of a run's records into a result: it declares its inputs and outputs, implements analyze(), stamps every result with its own provenance, and can report what it found.

Module types

Type	Base package	Color	Role
device	`plesty-lib`	violet	Single instrument API
analyzer	`plesty-lib`	amber	Data processing layer
experiment	`plesty-lib`	mint	Measurement orchestrator
core	—	blue	SDK, Lib, CI infrastructure

Core repos

Repo	Role
`plesty-sdk`	CLI: `plesty init`, `check`, `docs`, `license`, `manual`, `update`
`plesty-lib`	Runtime: base classes, traffic managers, TCP service, experiments, analyzers and reports, monitors
`plesty-bench`	PLESTY Bench — the lab-PC application that installs modules, runs device servers and runs experiments across benches — and its remote client
`plesty-ci`	GitLab CI templates