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Preparing development tools

Development tools: the build and the tests as the project’s baseline.

To develop autonomously, a project needs a “baseline” — a reproducible build and tests. They are prepared by the development tools.

While there are no tools yet, the project screen says so with a bar at the top and offers one action: “Prepare development tools” (available after a full audit — otherwise the button leads to the audits). Preparation can take a long time; while it runs, the bar leads to the preparation task, and the “New task” button is disabled.

The rest of the screen stays in place: the project state and the tasks already created are visible as usual. Once the tools are ready, the bar disappears and you can set tasks.