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atopile officially supports VSCode and Cursor. We recommend using Cursor. AI is already getting very good at writing ato code. Download it here: https://www.cursor.com/ Once you have VSCode/Cursor just install the atopile VSCode/Cursor extension. atopile extension After installation it will prompt you to install the ato CLI. Click the Install Automatically button. atopile extension install
Set up an MCP server for this documentation with
npx mint-mcp add atopile

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Installing KiCAD

If you want to layout or route PCBs you will need to install KiCAD. 
brew install kicad
Ultimately, atopile is a Python package, so you can install it wherever and however you want—but some Python package managers are better than others. Here’s the recommended method to install atopile. 
brew install atopile/tap/atopile
  1. Install uv. See: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
  2. Install atopile with uv 
    uv tool install atopile
    If this is the first time you’ve used uv for a tool install, it might give you another command to run to finish setup.Do it.
  3. Check ato installed 
    ato --version

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Editable installation (Best for development)

  1. Install uv See: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
  2. Clone the repo 
    git clone https://github.com/atopile/atopile
  3. cd into the repo 
    cd atopile
  4. Install 
    uv sync --dev
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