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1. Environment Setup

Requirements

  • A Unix-like shell (macOS or Linux). On Windows, use WSL2 or Git Bash.
  • Install Docker Desktop
  • Install Visual Studio Code
  • Install uv
  • Python 3.14, installed with uv python install 3.14
  • A GitHub.com account
  • git
    • If you're on mac and git is not installed either:
      • Install the Homebrew package manager (recommended) and install git with brew install git
      • Or install xcode command line tools xcode-select --install
  • Make sure an ssh key on your machine is configured with your GitHub account.

Validating Requirements

After installing the required tools, open a new terminal window.

You're ready to get started if you can run the commands below in your terminal.

Your version numbers may be different, but make sure you have Python 3.14 installed!

shell
~ > docker --version
Docker version 29.3.1, build c2be9cc

~ > git --version
git version 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)

~ > code --version
1.116.0

~ > uv --version
uv 0.11.6 (65950801c 2026-04-09 aarch64-apple-darwin)

~ > python3 --version
Python 3.14.4

Success

If all these commands work, you're ready to get started!