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+## Optimism Monorepo Documentation
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+The `docs/` directory contains Optimism documentation closely tied to the implementation details of the monorepo (https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism).
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+The directory layout is divided into the following sub-directories.
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+- [`postmortems/`](./postmortems/): Timestamped post-mortem documents.
+- [`security-reviews`](./security-reviews/): Audit summaries and other security review documents.