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When using or referencing the Cormorant Foraging Framework, please provide attribution as follows:

  Shatny, M. (2026). Cormorant Foraging Framework: A Three-Dimensional Taxonomy for Intelligence Systems. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18210081

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