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This repository is the home of the Language Server Protocol, a standard created by Microsoft that defines how code editors communicate with programming language tools. Before this standard existed, every editor (like VS Code, Vim, or Emacs) had to build its own custom integration for every programming language it wanted to support. That meant a lot of repeated work: if you wanted Go support in five different editors, someone had to write five separate plugins. The Language Server Protocol solves this by defining a shared communication format. A language tool, called a language server, implements features like autocomplete, error highlighting, go-to-definition, and rename refactoring once, using this protocol. Any editor that also speaks the protocol can then use that tool directly, with no additional custom code. This is why VS Code, Neovim, and many other editors can all support dozens of languages without each editor team building everything from scratch. This particular repository holds the specification document itself, not a software library or implementation. It defines what messages can be sent, what format they use, and what each one means. The repo also serves the protocol's website, which includes a more readable version of the specification and a list of known language server implementations for various programming languages. Contributions to the specification, including proposed extensions, are accepted through GitHub pull requests.