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Expand Up @@ -1079,6 +1079,20 @@ Experimental packages are used to develop new constructs and experiment with the
them as stable and including them within `aws-cdk-lib`. Once they are included in `aws-cdk-lib`, no
more breaking api changes can be made.

When you want to build an alpha package (for example, `some-package-alpha`), you can execute the following in the root of the repository to build it and it's dependencies.

```
$ npx lerna run build --scope=@aws-cdk/some-package-alpha
```

At this point, you can run build and test the alpha package.

```
$ cd packages/@aws-cdk/some-package-alpha
$ yarn build
$ yarn test
```

## Changing Cloud Assembly Schema

If you plan on making changes to the `cloud-assembly-schema` package, make sure you familiarize yourself with
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