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-This folder contains "kittens", that is, various small command line utilities
-compiled statically for doing things like kitty remote control, icat etc. These
-are often re-implementations of earlier kittens that were written in Python.
+This folder contains library and utility code for the various "kittens". Small
+terminal programs compiled statically for doing things like kitty remote
+control, icat etc. These are often re-implementations of earlier kittens that
+were written in Python.