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 trestle-bot assists users in leveraging [Compliance-Trestle](https://github.com/IBM/compliance-trestle) in automated workflows or [OSCAL](https://github.com/usnistgov/OSCAL) formatted compliance content management.
 
-> WARNING: This project is under active development.
+> WARNING: This project is currently under initial development. APIs may be changed incompatibly from one commit to another.
 
 ## Basic Configuration