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 lists tenets that must be respected when working with simulation code and
 scientific data. This repository provides scripts to help automatically enfore
 these tenets (as much as possible).
+
+## Dependencies
+
+The script `rtenets` requires:
+
+- bash
+- git
+- curl (optional, for web-based operations)
+- jq (optional, for gitea API calls)
+- python (optional, to setup dtool and snakemake)