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Walk a new contributor (or a fresh dev environment) through getting My Family Tree running locally end-to-end.
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Add a new MCP tool to the shared registry so the chat agent and external MCP clients can both call it.
Add a new FastAPI endpoint with router, schema, integration test scaffold, and a reminder to regenerate frontend types.
Add a shadcn/ui primitive correctly into the frontend.
Generate and hand-review a new Alembic migration after editing SQLModel tables.
| name | mft-bootstrap |
| description | Walk a new contributor (or a fresh dev environment) through getting My Family Tree running locally end-to-end. |
Use when the user asks to set up or refresh the local environment.
Steps to run, in order:
docker, uv, yarn, node (>=20), and (optional) pre-commit.cp .env.example .env if .env doesn't exist; ask the user to fill in
OPENAI_API_KEY and/or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.make bootstrap (uv sync + yarn install + pre-commit install).make up to bring up the docker-compose stack.make migrate && make seed.curl http://localhost:8000/healthz -> 200 with db: ok, s3: ok.http://localhost:5173/ renders the dashboard.make logs and surface the failing service.Don't skip make migrate; the schema doesn't exist until it runs.