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What does this MR do and why?

This MR adds the pyproject.toml and uv.lock files to the project to define metadata, dependencies, and lock versions for reproducible builds.
This improves project setup consistency and makes dependency management easier across environments.

References

• PEP 621 – Storing project metadata in pyproject.toml
• UV documentation

How to set up and validate locally

1. Pull the latest changes from the dev branch after merging this MR.
2. Run:

   uv sync

3. Verify that dependencies are installed correctly and the project runs without missing packages.

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