# Developing the Ansible Core Engine

Although many of the pieces of the Ansible Core Engine are plugins that can be swapped out via playbook directives or configuration, there are still pieces of the Engine that are not modular. The documents here give insight into how those pieces work together.

- Ansible module architecture

See also

Python API
  Learn about the Python API for task execution
Developing plugins
  Learn about developing plugins
Mailing List
  The development mailing list
irc.freenode.net
  #ansible-devel IRC chat channel