# Basic Steps

The steps presented in this section, describing the important first steps to use Agent.Workbench as a software framework, but also as an execution environment for software agents. Here you’ll find the required installation steps, how your development environment needs to be configured, how to define a project in your Eclipse IDE (**I**ntegrated **D**evelopment **E**nvironment) and how to deploy your first project with its agents to the execution environment of Agent.Workbench.

Later sections will describe, what capabilities and what kind of extensibility Agent.Workbench provides.