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 # OpenSAFELY Airlock
 
-An in-development component of the OpenSAFELY research framework.
+A tool that allows researchers to request the release of a set of files from an OpenSAFELY backend, allows output checkers to review the contents of those files for disclosivity, and then releases those files deemed safe to job-server.
+A component of the OpenSAFELY research framework.
 
 
 ## About the OpenSAFELY framework