From 4b172d09010cad3886a63446241df279feff578f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Rich <matthewrich.conf@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:10:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] update readme

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 README.md | 3 +++
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 # decl
 
+# Purpose
+
+These tools work with YAML descriptions of resources (E.g. files, users, containers, etc) for (de)serializing the state of the given resource.  This enables more generically describing the state of a supported resource type, pipeling state transformations and enabling the use of other tools in that process.
 
 # Command-line