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Setup

As with any project, the first step is setting up your environment. Let's get started by ensuring you have a project structure ready to work with.

Important

Since this is an intermediate-level course, please ensure you've gone through the Griptape Setup - Visual Studio Code course to set up your environment. We will be starting from the code at that point.

Create a Project

Following the instructions in Griptape Setup - Visual Studio Code please:

  1. Create your project folder. Example: griptape-shotgrid-tool
  2. Set up your virtual environment
  3. Ensure you pip install griptape python-dotenv
  4. Create a .env file with your OPENAI_API_KEY
  5. Create your app.py file with the following code:
app.py
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from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv() # Load your environment

Next Steps

And there we have it, your environment is all set up! In the next section, we'll get started by using one of Griptape's built-in Tools (DateTimeTool) and understand how it works.