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Creating Custom Diagnostics
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AQUA allows users to create custom diagnostics to suit their specific needs. 
Custom diagnostics can be implemented as Python functions or classes and integrated into AQUA's diagnostic framework.

Standards for new diagnostics
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In this section we provide some guidelines for the development of new diagnostics.

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   :maxdepth: 1

   guidelines/class_structure
   guidelines/output_management
   guidelines/configuration_files
   guidelines/default_parser
   guidelines/core_functions