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CODEOWNERS File Draft and Ownership Map

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Create a CODEOWNERS file and ownership map for your repository folders, with fallback owners, review load checks and gaps to resolve.

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Help me draft a CODEOWNERS file for a GitHub repository. Folder structure: [FOLDER_STRUCTURE]. Teams or people and what they own: [OWNERS_AND_AREAS]. Files that need extra care (for example billing, security, infrastructure): [SENSITIVE_PATHS]. Default reviewer if nobody owns a path: [DEFAULT_OWNER]. Number of pull requests per week: [WEEKLY_PR_VOLUME].

Output three things. One, the CODEOWNERS file in a code block, with comments explaining each group, ordered so that more specific patterns come after general ones, since later matches take precedence [VERIFY]. Two, an ownership table with the columns Path pattern, Owner, Backup owner, Why, and Review load risk (low, medium, high). Three, a gap report listing paths with no owner, owners who appear on more than a third of the paths, and any single person who is the only owner of a sensitive path.

Explain in plain terms how this interacts with branch protection and the "require review from code owners" setting, flagging all setting names and syntax details with [VERIFY] for my GitHub plan. Remind me that handles must be real GitHub users or teams with repository access, and that I should confirm each one.

Do not invent team names, usernames or folders; use only what I gave you and mark unknowns as placeholders. Do not treat this as a security control by itself.

Add a worked example with invented figures: 5 teams, 12 top-level folders, 40 pull requests per week, and show how you would estimate each owner's weekly review count by assuming each pull request touches 1.5 owned areas.

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