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+# Setup
+
+## Purpose
+
+Automation project. Keep credentials, sessions, tokens, user data, and platform-policy boundaries explicit.
+
+## Local Requirements
+
+Document runtime, toolchain, hardware, environment variables, and dependency setup here.
+
+## First Run
+
+Add the smallest known-good setup path. Keep secrets in local environment files that are ignored by Git.