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+# SETUP.MD
+
+This file documents how to provision a clean development environment for `uipath-langchain`, run the build, execute the tests, and validate a sample code change end-to-end. It is intended both as a quick reference for human contributors and as a structured guide for automated environment-setup tooling.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- Python 3.11+
+- [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) 0.5+
+
+### Supported platforms
+
+`uv` is shell- and OS-agnostic, so the commands below run unchanged on every supported platform:
+
+- [x] Linux
+- [x] Windows
+- [x] macOS
+
+## Environment Variables
+
+None required for environment setup, build, or unit tests. The suite under the `Test` section runs fully offline and requires no external authentication.
+
+> **All commands below must be run from the repository root.** The `uv` invocations resolve `pyproject.toml`, `src/`, and `tests/` relative to the current working directory. The first line of `## Setup` enforces this by `cd`-ing to the git root.
+
+## Setup
+
+```bash
+cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+python3 -m pip install --upgrade uv
+uv sync --all-extras
+```
+
+## Verify Setup
+
+```bash
+uv --version
+uv run python --version
+uv run python -c "import uipath_langchain; print('uipath_langchain ok')"
+```
+
+## Build
+
+N/A
+
+## Test
+
+```bash
+uv run pytest
+```
+
+## Sample Code Change
+
+### The change
+
+Add a new `get_execution_job_id` helper to `src/uipath_langchain/_utils/_environment.py`, immediately after the existing `get_default_timeout` function. The helper is the symmetric complement of the existing `get_execution_folder_path` — it reads the `UIPATH_JOB_KEY` env var at runtime:
+
+```python
+def get_execution_job_id() -> str | None:
+    """Reads the agent's executing job key from the runtime environment."""
+    return os.environ.get("UIPATH_JOB_KEY")
+```
+
+Then create `tests/utils/test_environment_job_id.py` with two pytest tests:
+
+```python
+import pytest
+
+from uipath_langchain._utils._environment import get_execution_job_id
+
+
+def test_get_execution_job_id_unset(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.delenv("UIPATH_JOB_KEY", raising=False)
+    assert get_execution_job_id() is None
+
+
+def test_get_execution_job_id_set(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setenv("UIPATH_JOB_KEY", "job-abc-123")
+    assert get_execution_job_id() == "job-abc-123"
+```
+
+### Verification
+
+```bash
+uv run pytest tests/utils/test_environment_job_id.py -v
+```
+
+## Test with a real UiPath Coded LangGraph Agent
+
+> This section is for human contributors who want to validate changes end-to-end against the real cloud platform. It is **not executed by the Agentic Inner Loop validation pipeline** — that pipeline only runs the sections above (Setup → Verify → Build → Test → Sample Code Change).
+
+The unit tests above are necessary but not sufficient — they don't exercise the package end-to-end. The flow below validates changes against a live runtime:
+
+1. Apply the code changes locally.
+2. Run the unit tests (see the `Sample Code Change` section above).
+3. Scaffold a coded UiPath LangGraph agent that exercises the changed code path.
+4. In the downstream project's `pyproject.toml`, add this local library as an editable dependency:
+
+   ```toml
+   [tool.uv.sources]
+   uipath-langchain = { path = "../path/to/uipath-langchain-python", editable = true }
+   ```
+
+5. Exercise the new behavior end-to-end:
+
+   ```bash
+   uv run uipath run <agent-name> --input '{...}'
+   ```
+
+6. (Optional) Open a PR and apply the `build:dev` label — this publishes the development version to Test PyPI.
+7. The PR description is updated automatically with instructions for pointing the downstream agent at the Test PyPI dev version.
+8. Validate the new behavior against the real platform — use either or both of the deploy targets below (Studio Web and Orchestrator are not mutually exclusive):
+   - **Studio Web**: export the `UIPATH_PROJECT_ID` environment variable pointing to an existing Coded Agent project in your solution, then run [`uipath push`](https://uipath.github.io/uipath-python/cli/#push) to push the dev version to that project. Open it in Studio Web and exercise the changed code path.
+   - **Orchestrator**: run [`uipath deploy`](https://uipath.github.io/uipath-python/cli/#deploy) to deploy the dev version as a package, then start a job in Orchestrator and exercise the changed code path.
+9. Once validation is done, close the dev PR — these PRs are not meant to be merged; their only purpose was to publish a Test PyPI build for end-to-end validation.