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Adapter Development
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An Adapter is a bundle of code that manages the connections between your Workflows and the other systems in your lab.

In production, Adapters are deployed to an Industrial PC that Artificial installs in your lab as part of your on-boarding process. This allows the Adapter to access lab equipment on your internal network and act as a bridge to the Artificial Cloud. During development, you can run your Adapter directly from your development environment, whether that's a Codespace or your local machine.

For more information, see :doc:`how_artificial_works`.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   adapter_development_overview
   adapter_setup
   adapter_actors_abilities
   adapter_actions
   adapter_adding_resource_libraries
   adapter_configuration
   connecting_lab_hardware
   configuring_driver
   deployment
   driver_development


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   supported_adapters

Adapter SDK Reference
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* :doc:`asset_api`
* :doc:`configuration_api`
* :doc:`file_upload_api`
* :doc:`notification_api`
* :doc:`alabpy`