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+# Red Knot
+
+Red Knot is an extremely fast type checker.
+Currently, it is a work-in-progress and not ready for user testing.
+
+Red Knot is designed to prioritize good type inference, even in unannotated code,
+and aims to avoid false positives.
+
+While Red Knot will produce similar results to mypy and pyright on many codebases,
+100% compatibility with these tools is a non-goal.
+On some codebases, Red Knot's design decisions lead to different outcomes
+than you would get from running one of these more established tools.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Core type checking tests are written as Markdown code blocks.
+They can be found in [`red_knot_python_semantic/resources/mdtest`][resources-mdtest].
+See [`red_knot_test/README.md`][mdtest-readme] for more information
+on the test framework itself.
+
+The list of open issues can be found [here][open-issues].
+
+[mdtest-readme]: ../red_knot_test/README.md
+[open-issues]: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc%20is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Ared-knot
+[resources-mdtest]: ../red_knot_python_semantic/resources/mdtest