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 # walnut
 
-walnut is an open source registry project for bazel modules.
+![GitHub Actions Build Status](https://github.com/kruemelmann/walnut/actions/workflows/build_test.yml/badge.svg)
+> walnut is an open source registry project for bazel modules.
 
 ## Requirements