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+# Contribution Notes
+
+Personal working notes for exploring the spec-kit repository and
+spec-driven development workflow.
+
+## Purpose
+
+- Track local experiments while reading through the spec-kit codebase
+- Record observations about the specify CLI and its templates
+
+> These notes live in my fork for personal reference only.