FACTUAL ACTIVITY RECORD · An activity record based on work that took place
Defining the boundary between a parent workspace and independent repositories
Aligning clone destinations, Git inspection units, and narrow ignore rules in onboarding documentation
Purpose
Using one directory tree for the parent workspace that held AI-organization settings and for the repositories that contained product and brand-presence work required an explicit definition of where each repository was cloned and where Git state was inspected.
If the parent workspace appeared to manage the source code and history of its child repositories, an operator could incorrectly expect git status or git diff at the parent root to cover every change. The onboarding needed to preserve independent Git repositories while connecting shared rules with repository-specific rules.
Implementation
The root reader-facing guide gained a Quick Start that cloned the parent workspace first and then cloned the required child repositories individually under the product and brand-presence containers. The parent held AI-organization settings and acted as the workspace container; it did not manage child source code or Git history.
Guides for the product and brand-presence containers were added. Each documented the repository purpose, clone destination, and clone command. They also established the root AGENTS.md as the entry point for shared rules and a child AGENTS.md, when present, as the source of repository-specific rules.
The same three reader guide files defined the Git inspection boundary. Each cloned directory was an independent Git repository, and git status or git diff at the parent root did not automatically aggregate child state. Work therefore moved to the relevant repository root before inspecting that repository.
ignore configuration added only the paths planned for three product repositories and one brand-presence repository. It did not ignore all of product container or brand-presence container, so the container reader guide files and the parent's workspace documentation remained tracked.
Verification confirmed that only four files were in scope and checked the diff for whitespace errors. It also established that all four child paths matched the ignore rules, that the product and brand-presence container guides were not ignored, and that clone destinations and the parent-child Git boundary matched the recorded criteria.
What was confirmed
Verification results
The root Quick Start, two container reader guide files, and ignore configuration described the same hierarchy for independent child repositories below the parent workspace.
The documentation established that the parent did not manage child content or Git history and that parent-root git status and git diff did not aggregate child state, requiring inspection from each target repository.
Three product paths and one brand-presence path were ignored, while the container directories as a whole and both reader guide files remained tracked by the parent.
The final change covered four files with 89 additions and 4 deletions. Whitespace, ignored and non-ignored paths, clone destinations, and the reading order for shared and repository-specific rules were checked.
The Activity did not verify actual cloning of the child repositories, their contents, or URL reachability. The confirmed scope ended with static consistency across the workspace description, clone commands, Git boundary, and ignore rules.
Basis for completion
The Activity was complete when child placement, clone procedures, rule-reading order, Git inspection units, and narrowly scoped ignore paths agreed across four files, and the diff and ignore-boundary checks were complete.