Owned Paths

Owned Paths is the concurrency key in Factory. It defines the exact set of files and directories an agent is allowed to touch for a given ticket.

The Rule of Disjoint Sets

Under the strict collision policy, two tickets can run concurrently only when their Owned Paths globs are disjoint:

Formatting Requirements

Owned Paths must be written as one path or glob per bullet:

### Owned Paths

- event-runtime/lib/dispatch.mjs
- event-runtime/lib/dispatch.test.mjs

Avoid comma-separated bullets

The planner’s parser keeps only bullets that look like a valid path without internal spaces. A bullet with comma-separated paths (- foo.ts, bar.ts) is dropped. If no valid paths remain, Factory treats the scope as unknown (**) and serializes the ticket rather than assuming it is safe to overlap.

The behavior is policy-controlled through dispatch.owned_paths_collision in config/policy.yaml. Use strict when overlap must block dispatch; advisory records the overlap as evidence instead. Owned Paths remain the declared scope and audit boundary in either mode; strict conformance is required when they must also be an enforced write boundary.