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  • CONTRIBUTING.md and skills/cuopt-developer/SKILL.md both recommended mamba as the preferred package manager, but printed conda commands with a "just replace conda with mamba" aside — so following the recommended path required manually substituting every command.
  • Lead the code blocks with mamba env create ... directly; kept conda activate since mamba doesn't implement activate. The mamba-install link and the "swap in conda if mamba isn't installed" fallback note are both preserved.

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  • Grepped repo for any other "recommend mamba but show conda" occurrences — none found

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The docs recommended mamba but printed conda commands with a "replace
conda with mamba" aside, so the recommended path required an extra
mental substitution on every command. Lead with mamba for env
creation; keep conda for activation, which mamba doesn't implement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Environment setup documentation

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Update environment setup instructions
CONTRIBUTING.md, skills/cuopt-developer/SKILL.md
The setup instructions use mamba activate by default and document conda activate as an alternative. The environment activation warning is now generic.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main documentation change: it replaces conda commands and manual substitution guidance with direct mamba commands.
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1. **Check CUDA driver compatibility.** Run `nvidia-smi` and read the *CUDA Version* in the top-right corner — that's the maximum CUDA your driver supports. Pick a conda env file from `conda/environments/all_cuda-<ver>_arch-<arch>.yaml` whose CUDA major version is **≤** that. A mismatch builds successfully but fails at runtime inside RMM with `cudaMallocAsync not supported with this CUDA driver/runtime version` — verify this *before* the build, not after.
2. **Create and activate the conda env** before *any* build, test, or `pre-commit` command — this is allowed and expected (see [Refusal Rules](#refusal-rules--read-first)). Use a **local prefix env** (`./.cuopt_env`) per [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md), with the env file you picked in step 1 (swap `conda``mamba` if available):
2. **Create and activate the conda env** before *any* build, test, or `pre-commit` command — this is allowed and expected (see [Refusal Rules](#refusal-rules--read-first)). Use a **local prefix env** (`./.cuopt_env`) per [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md), with the env file you picked in step 1 (`mamba` is recommended and faster; swap in `conda` if `mamba` isn't available — `activate` always uses `conda`, since `mamba` doesn't implement it):

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mamba (v 2.5.0) supports activate.

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Good catch, thanks — you're right, that was based on a local mamba 1.4.2 test without mamba init run first, not an actual limitation. Fixed in 73c840a: dropped the incorrect claim, kept conda activate in the example since it works regardless of mamba version/init state, and noted mamba activate is fine too where supported.

The mamba note didn't say which of the two installers just mentioned
(miniforge, miniconda) actually includes it, so miniconda users had no
signal that the mamba commands below would fail without an extra
install step.

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Per review: mamba does support 'mamba activate' (confirmed against
mamba's own docs, which present it as the standard approach with no
version caveat). The earlier wording was based on a local mamba 1.4.2
test that hadn't run 'mamba init' first, not an actual limitation of
mamba. Keep 'conda activate' in the example since it works regardless
of mamba version or init state, but stop asserting mamba can't do it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consistent with leading with mamba for env creation: show 'mamba
activate' in the example, with an inline comment pointing to 'conda
activate' as the fallback for setups where mamba init hasn't been run.

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2. **Create and activate the conda env** before *any* build, test, or `pre-commit` command — this is allowed and expected (see [Refusal Rules](#refusal-rules--read-first)). Use a **local prefix env** (`./.cuopt_env`) per [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md), with the env file you picked in step 1 (`mamba` is recommended and faster; swap in `conda` if `mamba` isn't available):
```bash
conda env create -p ./.cuopt_env --file conda/environments/all_cuda-<ver>_arch-$(uname -m).yaml
conda activate ./.cuopt_env
mamba env create -p ./.cuopt_env --file conda/environments/all_cuda-<ver>_arch-$(uname -m).yaml
mamba activate ./.cuopt_env # or: conda activate ./.cuopt_env
```
Tests link against libraries compiled inside that env; a fresh shell without `conda activate ./.cuopt_env` hits cryptic linker errors.
Tests link against libraries compiled inside that env; a fresh shell without activating it hits cryptic linker errors.

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