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@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ caution and you might need to make some changes here and there. First thing
 on the to-do list would be to add all configuration or cluster dependent
 settings into a seperate configuration file.
 
+The documentation for `launch.py` can be found [here](docs/launch.md).
+