One owner per claim

Claim: a thing is in the scope of one member of the family, and every other member links it.

What it asks

  • Each member states what it holds in the in rows of its scope table.
  • A thing another member holds is an out row that links that member.
  • Two members that claim the same phrase are a finding: one owns it, the other links it.

Why

  • This is one place per fact applied to scopes: knowledge that must change together lives in one place.
  • Two members claiming one thing are two places to change, and they drift.

Limits

  • The check compares words, not meaning. Two rows may say the same thing in other words, or share a phrase and differ.
  • On the six members today it finds no shared phrase. That shows the tables can be read, not that they do not overlap in meaning.
  • No study compares one repository per problem with fewer, wider ones.