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 Issues and PRs welcome. Please open an issue before starting a large change.
 
+## Development tooling
+
+All code in this repo is reviewed, tested, and owned by human contributors. LLM (large language model) coding tools are part of our development workflow.
+
 ## License
 
 GPL-3.0 — see [LICENSE](LICENSE).