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 ## Mission
 
 Apache Magpie is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
-related to creation and maintenance of software related to agent-assisted
-repository maintainership and development, including issue and pull-request
-triage, contributor mentoring, agent-drafted remediation, developer-side
-development-cycle skills, and narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge automation
+related to agent-assisted repository maintainership and development, including
+issue and pull-request triage, contributor mentoring, agent-drafted
+remediation, developer-side development-cycle skills, and narrowly-scoped
+fix-and-merge automation.
 
 ## Abstract
 
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 [![Magpie](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/magpie/main/assets/badge.json)](https://magpie.apache.org/)
 
-A reusable, project-agnostic framework for ASF-project automation.
-Currently in development for ASF projects + Python Core team
+Apache Magpie provides high-quality recipes for agent-assisted software project
+maintenance.
+
+These recipes allow human maintainers working with AIs to efficiently handle
+the repetitive parts of running an open-source project: Issue triage, PR
+review, mentoring contributors, managing security reports, and more.
+
+Magpie is currently in development for ASF projects + Python Core team
 friendlies. **Not** a public marketplace skill — adoption is by
 invitation while the framework is pre-release; once we ship via
 the [ASF release policy](https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html),