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+> [!WARNING]
+> This package is in early development and is not yet stable. It is intended as a typing toolkit
+> for working with the [Python array API standard](https://data-apis.org/array-api/latest/), but it
+> may change significantly in the future.
+
+
 ## Installation
 
 ```bash
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 >>> func(np.array([1, 2, 3]))
 array([1, 2, 3])
 
-```
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+```