integrating custom deck.gl layer with kepler.gl - what's the best practice?

dear kepler.gl devs,
I would like to know, what is the best approach to integrate a custom deckl.gl layer with kepler.gl?
(i.e., so that I can select this layer when I choose the data mapping in kepler.)

to give you an example of what I want to achieve:
I extended the standard ArcLayer to show an animation indicating the direction of the link - and now I would like to add that as an option to kepler.gl.
I followed the tutorials in the vis-academy and checked the documentations and issues of both kepler and deck but I could not find any documentation on how to approach this.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could add a description for how to achieve this, for instance as an additional exercise in the vis academy's kepler.gl tutorial.

From what I gathered so far, the actual layer is defined by deck.gl -- and if it should be usable in kepler.gl, an interface has to be defined, specifying the fields & options that would be visible in the user interface when parametrizing the layer.

however, I'm not sure how to integrate my "updated"/custom version of deck with kepler.
and I also do not know how to write the interface on the kepler side, in order to enable parametrization of the new layer in my custom deck.gl version.

please let me know if I should clarify any part of my request.
kind regards!