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test: Add unit tests for a utility in apps/studio/src/shared/lib
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The copilot initialisation is misleading in README file quick start section
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Documentation doesn't explain sandboxing differences between Docker and npm installation methods
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Website typo: rtk init --claude-code should be rtk init --global
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feat: Add links to mailing list archives in home page
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Instructions on how to cite papermill in an academic paper.
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CLAUDE.md redirects to AGENTS.md for Claude Code sessions
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Support jar file submission for Spark jobs
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refactor: second-pass sink-file and boundary governance
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`setup_training_logger` assumes every datastore exposes a private `_config`
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Author notebooks as jupytext-paired `py:percent` sources instead of committing raw `.ipynb`
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Add a high-level Python API so notebooks and scripts don't have to shell out to the CLI
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feat(desktop): make UI language selection coherent and complete
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Nested arrayContains reifies to null in generated body (bundled pact_ffi 0.4.7)
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feature: implement the portable, content-addressed MoM Bundle lifecycle
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Healthcheck instructions have not been added to the "books" container images
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Feature : Add a Contribute to the library button
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research: orchestrate closed-loop self-adaptation across WRP knobs
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feat: extend the routing DSL with WRP governance-as-code constraints
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research: evaluate energy-aware backend/LB policy from FleetSim power models
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research: provision fleets for mixed workload archetype distributions
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research: co-optimize FleetSim compression band and pool boundary
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research: forecast workload archetypes for proactive per-pool scaling
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feat: bridge existing retention directives to backend KV-cache adapters
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research: evaluate capacity-aware cascade admission below semantic routing
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research: predict prompt-plus-output demand for downstream pool admission
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