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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ On the name: well, tea, we established that. there is something tea like called
 matcha. and this is git. so gotcha, because gitcha sounds dumb. Stop rolling
 your eyes.
 
+In general, this app is mainly meant for self-hosters who run their own small
+installation of gitea and want to pay attention to what their AI agents push to
+their projects. decentralisation is the game, so this is for that use case. this is
+not necessarily the app to use when you manage or frequent a large instance.
+
 ## Workspace
 
 - `gotcha_gitea`: reusable asynchronous Gitea API client with the complete