majordomus.one-worker-one-scope@1

What it is

URI

majordomus://rule/majordomus.one-worker-one-scope@1

Kind

rule

Identity

majordomus.one-worker-one-scope@1

Path

.ai/repo/rules/vendor/majordomus/rules/principle-04-one-worker-one-scope.v1.md

Provenance

declared

Media type

text/markdown

As a capability

rule.majordomus.one-worker-one-scope@1

Front matter

{
  "id": "majordomus.one-worker-one-scope",
  "version": 1,
  "kind": "rule",
  "title": "One worker, one clear scope",
  "description": "A task claims the paths it may touch, and touches only those.",
  "statement": "Claim the paths a task needs when it starts; if the fix is elsewhere, stop and record it rather than widening the scope silently.",
  "status": "active",
  "class": "advisory",
  "depends_on": [],
  "tags": [
    "principle"
  ]
}

Content

---
id: majordomus.one-worker-one-scope
version: 1
kind: rule
title: One worker, one clear scope
description: A task claims the paths it may touch, and touches only those.
statement: Claim the paths a task needs when it starts; if the fix is elsewhere, stop and record it rather than widening the scope silently.
status: active
class: advisory
depends_on: []
tags: [principle]
---

# Rationale

Two workers editing one file, and forty worktrees producing thousands of concurrently modified files, are the failures a declared scope prevents. The scope is a contract other workers can read and a boundary a command can check.

# Required behaviour

Claim the paths a task needs when it starts; if the fix is elsewhere, stop and record it rather than widening the scope silently.

# Failure behaviour

Nothing decides this rule directly, so a violation is reported by nobody; it is the rules that depend on it that decide what a machine can decide and stop or warn accordingly.

# Verification

The enforced rules whose `depends_on` names this one carry the validators, the tests and the CI wiring. `majordomus doctrine list` shows them.