Code Ownership
Codeowners, review routing, and accountability across an AI-augmented codebase.
What Is Code Ownership? A Developer's Guide
A developer's guide to understanding who owns what in your codebase — and why it matters more than you think for review speed, incident response, and knowledge retention.
Code Ownership in the Age of Coding Agents
When Copilot, Cursor, and autonomous agents author 30-50% of your commits, the historical CODEOWNERS model breaks. Here's how to remap ownership for an agent-heavy codebase.
Attributing AI-Authored Commits in Git
Concrete git workflows for attributing agent-authored commits — Generated-By trailers, Co-authored-by lines for bots, signed commits, and the audit trail you'll wish you had during your first incident.
Reviewer Assignment When Half Your Team Is an Agent
CODEOWNERS routing rules, quorum policies, and GitHub Actions workflows for assigning reviewers when the PR author is a Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code agent — not a human.
Auditing Agent-Authored PRs Before Merge
Diff-stat heuristics, secret-scan gates, dependency-add detection, and license checks — the merge-time controls that catch agent-authored PR failures before they reach main.
Shadow Engineering Detection
How to identify unsanctioned tools, frameworks, and AI assistants in your engineering organisation through build inspection and desktop monitoring.