.. intro.rst

.. _maroonxdr_prog_intro:

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Introduction
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This Programmer's Manual documents the internal structure of the
MAROON-X DRAGONS pipeline (``maroonxdr``) for developers extending,
maintaining, or porting it. It assumes you have already installed the
development environment and are familiar with the end-to-end reduction
workflow.

For the user-facing instrument description — detector arms, fiber
configurations, frame types, calibration requirements, and known
operational issues — see :ref:`maroonxdr_user_instrument` in the User
Manual.

For installation and the reduction walkthrough, see the Tutorial:
:ref:`maroonx_setup` for setup, then :ref:`maroonx_reduction_cli` or
:ref:`maroonx_reduction` for the CLI and Python API versions of the same
reduction.