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 # OpenAdapt-ML
 
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> **Status: Research — not required by the product.** This package explores
+> training and running demo-conditioned vision-language model (VLM) agents for
+> GUI automation. It is evidence-generating research work and is not required
+> to record, compile, or replay a workflow.
+>
+> The OpenAdapt product is the demonstration compiler,
+> [`openadapt-flow`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/openadapt-flow), installed
+> via the [`OpenAdapt`](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt) launcher
+> (`pip install openadapt`): it compiles a demonstrated GUI workflow into a
+> deterministic, locally executable program. Healthy runs make no model calls,
+> and it halts instead of guessing when verification fails. Lifecycle labels for
+> every repository are in the
+> [repository lifecycle registry](https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/.github/blob/main/REPOSITORY_LIFECYCLE.md).
+
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