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Day 1: +410 downloads yesterday

Day 1 of shipping 5 npm packages to 10,000 downloads. Numbers first, no fluff. Yesterday's downloads Combined: 4,563 (+410 since yesterday). 5,437 to go to 10,000. plumber-linter: 1,546 (+206) hexlens: 1,002 (+162) environmental-peek: 977 (+15) react-dismiss: 587 (+24) @parasraju /plumber-mcp: 451 (+3) What shipped yesterday environmental-peek v0.3.0 — --example flag and writing .env.example…

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