# Prerequisites
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Before you start this tutorial, do the following:
+ Install Git on your local machine. To install Git, see [Git downloads](http://git-scm.com/downloads).
+ Complete the steps in [Getting started with CodeDeploy](getting-started-codedeploy.md), including installing and configuring the AWS CLI. This is especially important if you want to use the AWS CLI to deploy a revision from GitHub to the instance.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS CodeDeploy. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query codedeploy` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).