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 # Install
 
+> **NOTE** Apparently github packages require you to set up a personal access token in order to download them, even if they are public. 
+> That's pretty annoying and kinda defeats the purpose of making this public. 
+> At the time of writing, I'm not sure of a convenient way around this aside from giving up on github packages and just putting this on maven central instead (more work).
+
 In SBT:
 
 ```scala