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 # babashka.pods
 
+Babashka pods are programs that can be used as Clojure libraries by bababshka.
+
 This is the library to load babashka pods. It is used by
 [babashka](https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/) but also usable from the JVM
 and [sci](https://github.com/borkdude/sci)-based projects other than babashka.