The fastest path to a local development environment is the setup app: it installs all required tools, clones your project repositories, and connects them with your IDE.
How to proceed
- Check the requirements – what your machine needs and what the setup app installs for you.
- Download the setup app, sign in, and run the developer setup.
- Select your project in the setup app and clone it – all repositories land in your workspace folder (default:
~/Documents/application-platform). - Open the project in your IDE and start the application:
ap run-local
Tip
Don’t want to install anything? Work with a remote workspace instead – a ready-made development VM in the cloud.
What’s inside the workspace folder
The setup app clones all repositories of a project as siblings into one shared folder and links the shared IDE/AI configuration from the local-configuration repository:
application-platform/<organization>/<project>/
├── backend/ # your application repositories
├── <app>/
├── local-configuration/ # central IDE and AI agent configuration
├── .cursor → local-configuration/.cursor (symlink)
├── AGENTS.md → local-configuration/AGENTS.md (symlink)
└── …
This way the same editor settings and AI instructions apply to all repositories of the project.