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   <img src="assets/offsetscan-banner.png" alt="OffsetScan — native corpus-scale static-triage engine" width="640">
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+  <a href="https://github.com/warpedatom/OffsetScan/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/warpedatom/OffsetScan" alt="Release"></a>
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+  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Built%20with-Rust-CE422B?logo=rust&logoColor=white" alt="Built with Rust">
+  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Core-Windows%20%7C%20Linux%20%7C%20macOS-lightgrey" alt="Cross-platform core">
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 A standalone, native, corpus-scale companion to [OffsetInspect](https://github.com/warpedatom/OffsetInspect).