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 The long-term architecture direction is **AER: Adaptive Expert Routing**, where work is routed across expert services, validators, aggregators, and supporting nodes. This repository is not that full distributed network yet. It is the small, testable foundation that proves the node/work/validation loop before public networking, production peer discovery, or economics are added.
 
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 ## Current status
 
 This repo currently provides: