docs: add repository guidance

Document the load-bearing project, workflow, CI, and verification rules. Expose the same guidance to OMP through a tracked AGENTS.md symlink.

Author: pashifika

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+# `AGENTS.md` is a tracked symlink to `CLAUDE.md`, so both agent tool families
+# read one file and cannot drift. The global ignore excludes `AGENTS.md` as
+# tooling noise; in this repository it is content, so the exclusion is reversed
+# here.
+!AGENTS.md
+
 # Editor and OS noise.
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AGENTS.md

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+CLAUDE.md

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+# Repository Guidelines
+
+## Authority
+
+`rasen/specs/` contains the accepted capability specifications and outranks
+change proposals. `rasen/changes/` records design decisions and their rationale;
+do not duplicate that rationale here.
+
+When implementation changes a normative decision, update the affected
+specification in the same change.
+
+## Project boundaries
+
+`omp-codebase-memory` distributes `codebase-memory-mcp` (CBM) as an installable
+OMP extension. It is TypeScript on Bun, has no npm runtime dependencies, and
+commits its bundled entry point at `dist/index.js`.
+
+The following boundaries are fixed:
+
+- Consume CBM release artifacts; contributing changes to
+  `DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp` is out of scope.
+- Adopt an existing `codebase-memory-mcp` on `PATH` and never replace it. Put a
+  package-managed copy under a package-owned root outside the plugin tree. Never
+  write `~/.local/bin` or modify an executable this package did not install.
+- Own exactly the `codebase-memory-mcp` key under `mcpServers` in the active OMP
+  agent directory's `mcp.json`. Upsert it idempotently, fail closed on an
+  unparseable file or foreign `command`, and remove it only while it still
+  matches the package-owned entry.
+- Never create or modify an operator's OMP agent-directory `AGENTS.md` or
+  `RULES.md`.
+- Never register a `tool_call` handler. Augment successful output through
+  `tool_result`, append rather than replace prior content, and fail open.
+- Never use platform timer globals. Use the handler context's managed timers
+  through `src/scheduler.ts`.
+- Never set an account-wide CBM configuration key for the operator.
+- Never duplicate an action already exposed through CBM's MCP tools, including
+  indexing.
+- Never hand-edit generated context artifacts; regenerate them from the CBM
+  executable.
+
+This package owns only the executable it downloaded and its MCP entry. CBM owns
+the graph, indexing, watcher, cache root, and updates to a system installation.
+Windows and changes to any other operator file are out of scope.
+
+## Repository layout
+
+The working tree contains two independent Git repositories:
+
+- The outer repository tracks code and delivery, including `.github/`, `src/`,
+  `test/`, `dist/`, `package.json`, and `.omp-plugin/`.
+- `rasen/` tracks planning artifacts in its own repository and remote.
+
+`rasen/` is ignored by the outer repository. Commit its work with
+`git -C rasen`; never stage planning and implementation in the same repository.
+
+## Git workflow
+
+`main` and release tags are protected by the committed rulesets under
+`.github/rulesets/`. Before implementation, create a short-lived topic branch
+named `<type>/<short-slug>`.
+
+Use Conventional Commits and land changes through pull requests. The ruleset
+permits merge commits only; do not squash. Unresolved review threads block the
+merge.
+
+Treat the committed rulesets as authoritative. Change and reimport those files
+rather than editing protection through the web interface.
+
+## CI and release
+
+Branch protection requires one status check named `ci`. It is the gate job in
+`.github/workflows/ci.yml`, runs under `if: always()`, fails when it aggregates
+no jobs, and accepts only successful dependencies.
+
+- Update the gate's `needs` whenever a required runtime job changes. Do not add
+  runtime job names to the ruleset.
+- Keep `install-check` outside the gate because it cannot install a pull
+  request's merge ref.
+- Pin every external `uses:` to a full 40-character commit SHA followed by a
+  version comment.
+- Default to `permissions: contents: read`, use
+  `persist-credentials: false`, and grant `contents: write` only to the release
+  publish job.
+- Do not apply `paths` filters to jobs required by the gate.
+- Pin Bun and its matching `@types/bun` version exactly. Install with
+  `--frozen-lockfile`.
+- Run checks through package scripts and print toolchain versions with results.
+- Do not add a Node job; Node is not a supported runtime.
+
+`dist/index.js` is committed. CI must build from source and compare the result
+byte-for-byte with that tracked bundle.
+
+A release tag must match `package.json`'s version and both the version and source
+ref in `.omp-plugin/marketplace.json`. Create releases only from verified tags.
+
+## Testing and verification
+
+Add deterministic tests for changed behavior. Cover the package boundaries
+affected by the change: release selection and checksums, archive validation,
+executable resolution, MCP-entry ownership, transport security, scheduler
+behavior, and handler fail-open paths.
+
+`test/unit` must not require a CBM executable or network access. Use recorded
+fixtures under `test/fixtures` and helpers in `test/support`. `test/packaging`
+may build and load the bundle and touch the filesystem. Checks that require a
+real executable or network access belong in a separate job.
+
+Report the commands and revision used for verification. State which relevant
+checks were not run and why; never claim an unexecuted check passed.
+
+## Documentation
+
+`README.md` is operator-facing and must be created or rewritten through the
+`readme-creator` skill and its quality checklist. If that skill is unavailable,
+stop rather than editing the README by hand.
+
+This file is the authority for repository guidance. `AGENTS.md` must remain a
+tracked symbolic link to `CLAUDE.md`; do not create another copy of these rules.