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+[project]
+name = "chadbook"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "minimal jupyter notebook boilerplate with uv"
+requires-python = ">=3.11"
+dependencies = ["jupyter"]
+
+[tool.uv]
+dev-dependencies = []