# Before you start

A step of the [Bootstrapping an environment](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping) tree on Gradus, in the Start area: where every repository begins.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/step/before-you-start

Every tree on Gradus hands prompts to an AI assistant working in a git repository. This tree sets up that assistant and that repository tooling on your machine, once. Nothing here needs a prompt: follow the steps and forge each one when it is done.

Leads to: [Install git](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/step/install-git), [Install Claude Code](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/step/install-claude-code).

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/llms.txt