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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
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Installing KiCAD

If you want to layout or route PCBs you will need to 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.
  1. Install uv. See: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
  2. Install atopile with uv
    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

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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
  3. cd into the repo
  4. Install