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-## Acknowledgements
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-We thank the community contributors who help improve SkillOpt. In particular:
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-- [@samuelgoofus-boop](https://github.com/samuelgoofus-boop) — Windows robustness for the Claude/Codex backends (argv-overflow / `WinError 206`, subprocess UTF-8 encoding, tolerant JSON parsing, and test-eval directory creation) in [#77](https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt/pull/77).
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-Contributions of all sizes are welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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 ## Citation
 
 ```bibtex