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-# Ambient CI - an ever present continuous integration system
+# Ambient CI
+
+Ambient is a CI system centered around building in network isolation
+inside a per-build virtual machine.
+
+Unlike my previous attempts at building a CI system, Ambient is meant
+to be safe, secure, and also reasonable to maintain in the long-term.
+
+## Ambient CI - an ever present continuous integration system
 
 Ambient is a PRE-ALPHA level project to build a CI system. It's only
 ever been tested on Debian 12 (bookworm). To try this: