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 **Dervish** infers **regular expression grammars** from example sequences using the BEX family of algorithms. Given a set of example sequences (strings over some alphabet), it learns a compact regular expression that captures the general pattern.
 
-Every codebase has unwritten conventions — the order tasks appear in Ansible roles, the resources a Helm chart always creates, the steps every CI pipeline runs. Nobody writes these down. They emerge from copying and converging.
+Every codebase has unwritten conventions like the order tasks appear in Ansible roles, the resources a Helm chart always creates, the steps every CI pipeline runs. Nobody writes these down. They emerge from copying and converging.
 
 When an LLM agent needs to follow these conventions, it usually has two bad options: