From bed6848a82d2efeff705aa2b8ace9a27ad49c5b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Graeme Foster <80714+GraemeF@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 15:20:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: say what the repo owns and what it leaves to others

Add two sections to the top of CLAUDE.md that say what an agent working here decides
and changes, and which owner each near miss belongs to, so an agent can take or decline
an ask without guessing.
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 CLAUDE.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

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+## What eventsourcing owns
+
+eventsourcing is a set of event sourcing libraries for TypeScript, built on Effect and published to npm as the `@codeforbreakfast/eventsourcing-*` packages. An agent here decides and changes:
+
+- the event store interface and its in-memory, filesystem and PostgreSQL implementations
+- the write side and read side: aggregates, commands and projections
+- the protocol, the transport contracts and their in-memory and WebSocket implementations, and the server that puts them together
+- the testing contracts that any store or transport implementation can run against itself
+- `bun-test-effect` and `eslint-effect`, the Effect testing and lint helpers published from this repo
+- the todo-app example and the docs under `docs/`
+- versioning, changesets and releases of every package above
+
+## What it does not own
+
+- **Effect itself** belongs to the upstream Effect project. An agent here adapts to Effect's API and reports bugs upstream, and does not patch or fork it.
+- **Bun, Turbo, PostgreSQL and the other tools** belong to their upstream projects.
+- **An application built on these libraries** belongs to whoever builds it. That covers its domain events, aggregates, projections and read models.
+- **A deployment** belongs to whoever runs it. That covers the PostgreSQL database, its migrations as applied, the hosting, the credentials, and how a WebSocket server is exposed to a network.
+- **The events in a user's store** belong to that user. An agent here never needs real event data, and invents any example it uses.
+
+An agent may decline an ask that falls outside this remit, and should say which owner above the ask belongs to.
+
 # 🚨 CRITICAL GIT WORKTREE WORKFLOW - DO THIS FIRST! 🚨
 
 **BEFORE ANY CODE CHANGES - USE WORKTREES:**