4 posts tagged with "Setup"

A working Conduction workstation needs a specific combination of tools: Claude Code, Docker, Nextcloud running locally, Playwright, a handful of global Claude settings and hooks, and a working gh CLI. New developers often lose their first day (or two) to setup puzzles we've already solved internally. This six-part series gets you from a clean laptop to a working workstation in one evening. Part 1 — this one — answers the question what do you install, and why before you start clicking through installers.

This is the part with the most install commands. WSL2, Docker Desktop, VS Code with the right extensions, the language runtimes (Node, PHP, Composer), the CLIs (gh, OpenSpec), and the Playwright Chromium binary. By the end of Part 2 you'll have a working dev workstation — just without Claude Code wired up yet. That's Part 3.

The first four parts were about concept, pipelines, gates and skills. Time to actually run. In this part you start a full Hydra run on a target app, paying attention to the practical pitfalls: tokens, images, and — if you work with multiple devs against the same repos — the HYDRA_LABEL_PREFIX trick.

Every other tutorial in this academy needs a working Nextcloud. This is the fastest route: a few commands and you run the official Nextcloud locally on your laptop, identical to production. You do not need to be a programmer — if you can install an app and copy and paste text, you will get through this. After that you install the Conduction apps from the Nextcloud app store, the same path as production.