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 - [sanju sivalingam](https://sanju.sh)
 - [somasundaram mahesh](https://msomu.com)
 
-## acknowledgements
-
-droidclaw's workflow orchestration was influenced by [android action kernel](https://github.com/Action-State-Labs/android-action-kernel) from action state labs. we took the core idea of sub-goal decomposition and built a different system around it — with stuck recovery, 28 actions, multi-step skills, and vision fallback.
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 ## license
 
 mit