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+# Code owners for each top-level directory.
+#
+# Each top-level directory is owned by @CogStack/cogstack-development unless at
+# least three current members of that team have committed there (git author or
+# Co-authored-by on origin/main)
+
+*                                @CogStack/cogstack-development
+
+/.devcontainer/                  @CogStack/cogstack-development
+/.github/                        @mart-r @tomolopolis @vladd-bit @adam-sutton-1992
+/anoncat-demo-app/               @CogStack/cogstack-development
+/cogstack-es/                    @CogStack/cogstack-development @mart-r
+/medcat/                         @mart-r @adam-sutton-1992 @vladd-bit
+/medcat-den/                     @CogStack/cogstack-development @mart-r
+/medcat-model-distributor/       @CogStack/cogstack-development @mart-r
+/medcat-plugins/                 @CogStack/cogstack-development @mart-r @adam-sutton-1992
+/medcat-scripts/                 @CogStack/cogstack-development @mart-r
+/medcat-service/                 @CogStack/cogstack-development @vladd-bitt
+/medcat-test-models/             @CogStack/cogstack-development @mart-r
+/medcat-trainer/                 @tomolopolis @mart-r @vladd-bit
+/medcat-tutorials/               @CogStack/cogstack-development
+/medcat-v2/                      @CogStack/cogstack-development
+/media/                          @CogStack/cogstack-development
+/v1/                             @mart-r @shubham-s-agarwal @vladd-bit @tomolopolis