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 # boxcutter-chef-cookbooks [![boxcutter-chef-cookbooks](https://github.com/boxcutter/boxcutter-chef-cookbooks/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/boxcutter/boxcutter-chef-cookbooks/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
 
-Boxcutter Chef automation
+This repo contains automation used to maintain a fleet of robots using
+neuromorphic sensors and their supporting infrastructure. It is built
+on top of the attribute-driven API cookbooks maintained by
+Meta/Facebook. For more information about this style of writing automation
+code, refer to the [Facebook Cookbooks Suite README](https://github.com/facebook/chef-cookbooks/blob/main/README.md).