Environment.md

ENVIRONMENT.md is a documentation template within the AI Dev Workspace Primitives collection, designed to describe the development environment and deployment environment associated with a software project. It captures the details needed to reproduce or understand where a project runs, covering items such as installed toolchains, language runtimes, and the substrate on which code is executed. The file is typically populated from existing context sources, such as a workstation profile or deployment notes, rather than written from scratch.

The primitive is oriented toward AI projects, where environment details are often critical to correct operation. It provides a structured place to record Conda environments, CUDA versions, model runtimes, GPU and VRAM specifications, and container or orchestration infrastructure. Documenting these elements in a consistent location helps both human collaborators and AI coding assistants understand the constraints under which a project was built and is meant to run.

This primitive is useful for developers maintaining multiple AI or machine learning projects who want a consistent way to document their hardware and software context, and for teams that need to share environment expectations across workstations and deployment targets. It may also suit individuals using AI-assisted development tools who want those tools to have accurate environment information without repeatedly re-explaining their setup.