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  * Python libraries:
     - Lark (for textual parsing)
     - Jinja2 (not a hard requirement, only for model-to-text transformation)
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+
+## Development
+
+The following branches exist:
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+ * `mde2425` - the branch containing a snapshot of the repo used for the MDE assignments 24-25. No breaking changes will be pushed here. After the re-exams (Sep 2025), this branch will be frozen.
+ * `master` - currently equivalent to `mde2425` (this is the branch that was cloned by the students). This branch will be deleted after Sep 2025, because the name is too vague.
+ * `cleaning` - in this branch, new development will occur, primarily cleaning up the code to prepare for next year's MDE classes.
+