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-version: "0.1.2"
-level: auto
-processes:
-  design: assist
-  implementation: auto
-  testing: auto
-  documentation: assist
-  review: assist
-  deployment: assist
-components:
-  SPEC.md: assist
-  WS.md: assist
-  smolmail.py: auto
-  smolmaild.py: auto
-  smolmail_rns.py: auto
-  smolmaild_rns.py: auto
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-
-This format is based on [AI-DECLARATION.md](https://ai-declaration.md/en/0.1.2).
-
-## Notes
-
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 # Smol Mail
 
-[![AI-DECLARATION: auto](https://img.shields.io/badge/%E4%B7%BC%20AI--DECLARATION-auto-ede9fe?labelColor=ede9fe)](https://ai-declaration.md)
-[![License: CC BY-SA 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC%20BY--SA%204.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
-[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
-
 A minimalist, decentralized, end-to-end encrypted mail protocol.
 
 Email should be simple again. Inspired by [Spartan](spartan://spartan.mozz.us/), [Misfin](gemini://misfin.org/), and [LXMF](https://github.com/markqvist/lxmf). Smol Mail reduces electronic correspondence to its essentials: an address, a key and a message. One keypair per user, five operations, one binary message format. No sprawling infrastructure, no proprietary accounts, no advertising, no tracking. Anyone can run a server, anyone can write a client, and only the intended recipient can read a message.