substrate-setup 0.2.2

One-shot local configurator for coding agents against a Substrate gateway

substrate-setup

One-shot configurator that points local coding agents at a Substrate gateway.

Install

substrate-setup requires Python 3.12+. The installers below pick the right interpreter automatically — you don't need a Python 3.12 already on your machine:

# Option A — uv (recommended; downloads Python 3.12 on demand if missing)
uv tool install substrate-setup

# Option B — pipx
pipx install substrate-setup

Don't have uv? Install it once with:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh   # macOS / Linux
# or on Windows:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Why not pip install substrate-setup? It works only if the pip on your PATH is bound to a Python 3.12+ interpreter. Anaconda's default pip (Python 3.9) is the common pitfall — PyPI hides every release from it with Requires-Python >=3.12 and the error message is unhelpful. uv and pipx both create an isolated 3.12 venv for the tool, so they sidestep the issue entirely.

Use

export SUBSTRATE_API_KEY="sk-substrate-..."   # or be prompted

substrate-setup configure          # detect installed agents and wire them up
substrate-setup verify             # read-only: confirm everything points at the gateway
substrate-setup remove             # strip the substrate-managed entries
substrate-setup --help

Supported agents: hermes, cursor, aider, continue.

Subset with --agents-only hermes,aider. Preview without writing: --dry-run. Override the gateway base URL: --base-url https://your-gateway.example.com.