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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "dataforge-cli"
+version = "1.0.0"
+description = "A CLI tool that converts and validates data formats (JSON, YAML, TOML) with schema validation using JSON Schema"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = {text = "MIT"}
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Environment :: Console",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+]
+keywords = ["cli", "json", "yaml", "toml", "validation", "conversion"]
+
+dependencies = [
+    "click>=8.0",
+    "pyyaml>=6.0",
+    "jsonschema>=4.17",
+    'tomli>=2.0; python_version < "3.11"',
+    "tomli-w>=1.0",
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = [
+    "pytest>=7.0",
+    "pytest-cov>=4.0",
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+dataforge = "dataforge.cli:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["dataforge*"]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+testpaths = ["tests"]
+python_files = ["test_*.py"]
+python_classes = ["Test*"]
+python_functions = ["test_*"]
+
+[tool.coverage.run]
+source = ["dataforge"]
+omit = ["tests/*"]
+
+[tool.coverage.report]
+exclude_lines = [
+    "pragma: no cover",
+    "def __repr__",
+    "raise AssertionError",
+    "raise NotImplementedError",
+]