Internal Developer Platform (Deep)

Purpose

Design and build a production-grade Internal Developer Platform with golden paths, platform APIs, Backstage customization, and adoption measurement. Covers service catalog modeling, software template design, custom plugin development, and platform lifecycle management.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "IDP", "internal developer platform", "Backstage", "golden path", "software template", "scaffolder", "Backstage plugin", "catalog entity", "techdocs", "developer portal", "platform adoption", "Backstage backend", "Backstage frontend", "custom action", "Backstage API", "service catalog".

Input Context

• Team size and structure (number of dev teams, platform team size)
• Existing CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins)
• Infrastructure provider (Kubernetes, cloud, on-prem)
• Developer pain points (onboarding time, env setup, deployment)
• Backstage version and existing plugins (if any)

Output Artifact

Backstage configuration files, custom plugin code (TypeScript), entity descriptor YAML, template YAML, scaffolder action definitions, and TechDocs config.