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

Ask for these if not already provided:

• 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)

Output Format

Local Development Setup: [Service Name]