# 🛠 Methods Development Guide

This section provides detailed guidance for developers who want to define and publish methods in the CCP platform.

Whether you're writing a Python script, managing data pipelines, or packaging complete Docker images, this guide walks you through:

- Declaring and handling input parameters
- Using execution scripts (`deploy.sh`, `execute.sh`)
- Writing method descriptors (`method.json`)
- Understanding consolidation workflows

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## 👤 Who is this guide for?

This section assumes basic familiarity with:

- Shell scripting
- Git repositories
- Programming languages like Python, R, or Bash

If you're completely new, consider starting with the  
👉 🐣 [Concepts for Beginners](/01_quickstart/04_concepts_for_beginners)
👉 👨‍💻 [Building Your First Method](/01_quickstart/05_building_simple_method)

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## 🧭 How to Use This Section

Each page in this guide covers a specific topic or input type.  
You can also **link these pages directly** from the method editor or execution form.

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## 🔗 Related Pages

- 🐣 [Concepts for Beginners](/01_quickstart/04_concepts_for_beginners)

- 👨‍💻 [Quickstart: Building simple methods](/01_quickstart/05_building_simple_method)

- 🛠 [Execution scripts: deploy and run](./06_scripts_and_placeholders)

- 🔣 [Structure of method.json](./07_method_json)

- 🐳 [Consolidation process](./08_consolidation)