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Setup Runbook Writer

Writes a new-hire environment setup runbook from your tribal knowledge.

Have ready: Describe the stack and the manual steps you do today

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LANGUAGES, FRAMEWORKS, DATABASES, SERVICESPASTE YOUR NOTES / COMMANDS / GOTCHASMAC / LINUX / WINDOWS / ALLURL OR "PRIVATE"

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Write a setup runbook that gets a new engineer from zero to running tests.

Stack: [LANGUAGES, FRAMEWORKS, DATABASES, SERVICES]
Current manual steps (brain dump, messy is fine):
[PASTE YOUR NOTES / COMMANDS / GOTCHAS]
OS: [MAC / LINUX / WINDOWS / ALL]
Repo URL: [URL OR "PRIVATE"]

Deliver a runbook with:
1. Prerequisites with version numbers and how to verify each (copy-paste check commands).
2. Ordered steps, each with the exact command, expected output, and what to do when it fails (the 2 most common failures per step, from my gotchas).
3. How to get seed data / a dev database.
4. The "you're done" verification: run this test suite / hit this endpoint and expect this result.
5. A "still stuck?" section: who/what to ask, and which logs to include.

Write for someone on day one who has never seen this stack. Time-box each step with a rough estimate.

Paste it into Muse or any assistant. Blank fields stay as [brackets].

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