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 # Pluggable Discovery Protocol Handler
 
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 This project is a library to ease implementation of pluggable discoveries for the [Arduino CLI](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli)
 following the [official specification](https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/platform-specification/#pluggable-discovery).