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title = "A Developer Pill"
date = "2022-11-15"
description = "Announcing a new tool for developers."
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author = "N E Davis"
ship = "~lagrev-nocfep"
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# A Developer Pill
A [pill](https://developers.urbit.org/reference/glossary/pill) is a bootstrap sequence to launch an Urbit ship for the first time. For most of Urbit's history, developers and users have typically used the supplied standard pill for booting their ships. Core developers would produce custom pills as a matter of testing changes in Arvo, but otherwise alternative pills were mostly ignored.
Today the Urbit Foundation unveils a new developer-oriented pill, which contains tools out-of-the-box to ease development and encourage best practices.
The current pill contains the desks:
- `%base`
- `%citadel`
- `%`
To use the pill, TODO