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 # Cuttlefish
 
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 Cuttlefish is a modular browser computing system and a member of [the squidworks project](https://gitlab.cba.mit.edu/squidworks/squidworks), an effort to develop a distributed dataflow computing protocol.
 
 Here, modular code is wrapped in dataflow descriptors and handles that allow rapid assembly of computing applications (programs!).