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Author: tkirschke

README.md

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 `StageModel` and `SourceModel` are both Pydantic models (validated on construction). `SourceBinding` is a plain dataclass — it's just a lightweight container pairing a `SourceModel` with extraction metadata.
 
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+## 📄 License
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+## 🤝 Contributing
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