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 # entangled-tool
 
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 Publisher command-line tooling for the [Entangled v1.0](https://github.com/samjanny/entangled) protocol, built on the [`entangled-core`](https://github.com/samjanny/entangled-api) library (pinned to tag `v0.10.0`, spec `v1.0-rc.48`).
 
 **New here?** [`examples/blog`](examples/blog) is a runnable, end-to-end walkthrough: it authors a post from Markdown, signs the content and the site manifest, and verifies both. It is the quickest way to see what the tool does and how the pieces fit together.