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+# Hello
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+Greetings from the agent-coding-empire pipeline!
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 # todo-app
 
-Throwaway playground for the agent-coding-empire v0. Built end-to-end by autonomous dev agents from PM-authored issues.
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+Throwaway playground for the agent-coding-empire v0. Built end-to-end by autonomous dev agents from PM-authored issues.
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+See [HELLO.md](HELLO.md) for a greeting from the pipeline.
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