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Write a local development environment setup guide for a service or project — covering prerequisites, repository setup, environment variables, local service dependencies, database seeding, running the service, running tests, common gotchas, IDE recommendations, and first-contribution checklist. Use when asked to write a dev setup guide, create onboarding documentation for engineers, document local environment setup, or write a getting-started guide for a codebase. Produces a complete setup guide that a new engineer can follow from zero to running tests in under 30 minutes, with a troubleshooting section for the most common setup failures.

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# Local Dev Setup Skill

Produce a complete local development environment setup guide for a service or project — walking a new engineer from zero (a clean laptop) to a working local environment with passing tests in under 30 minutes. A good setup guide reduces onboarding time, prevents the "it works on my machine" problem, and lets engineers make their first contribution with confidence. Write every step as a concrete command or action — not a description of what needs to happen.

## Required Inputs

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- **Service name** and what it does
- **Tech stack** — language, framework, database, cache, message queue, and any external services
- **Dependencies** — databases, caches, message queues, and external services (mocked or real)
- **Test framework** — how tests are run and what the test suite covers
- **CI/CD platform** — GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc. (for context on what "passing CI" means locally)

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