Turn the setup notes into one preflight report
A new developer follows six documents and reaches application startup before learning that the required runtime version is unsupported.
- Focused work estimate
- 1h 30m + prerequisites
- Priority in the scenario
- Medium
- Engineering practice
- Developer experience · Environment diagnostics
Estimated field mix
- DevOps70%
- Developer tooling30%
Field percentages are editorial estimates of the ticket's engineering focus. They total 100%; they are not measured time, proficiency scores, or ownership evidence.
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Project context
A fictional support portal requires a database, cache, object store, and mail catcher. Setup lives in personal notes, reset scripts sometimes target shared resources, and offline work fails after package caches are cleared. Build a local-only development contract with synthetic data; no shared staging system or production credentials are supplied.
Setup prerequisites
- Environment variables
- Service health
- Database migrations
Preceding work
No earlier ticket is required. Complete the project setup above.
Acceptance criteria
- Preflight checks runtime, package manager, container engine, ports, and required files
- Each result says detected, required, and remediation
- Checks are read-only and return one aggregate status
Implementation constraints
- Do not install software or change host settings from preflight.
Verification to include
- Run against a complete declared fixture environment.
- Simulate multiple missing dependencies and report all of them in one pass.
Deliverables
- Read-only preflight command and environment fixtures
Rollout and recovery
Link preflight from the existing setup guide before removing manual checks.
Value of the work
For the engineer: Practice developer-environment automation, safe reset boundaries, portability, and diagnostic quality.
For the team: Reduce onboarding and support cost while making local dependencies and destructive operations explicit.
Evidence boundaries
Outcome Evidence: Tests, patches, and runbooks are requested deliverables. They become Outcome Evidence only through a qualified Mission and immutable Evidence IDs.
Ownership Evidence: Independent adaptation must be observed under a declared verification policy and cite immutable Evidence IDs. Completing a planning ticket establishes no Ownership Evidence.