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+# Code owners for penguintechinc/squawk
+#
+# The org default-branch ruleset sets require_code_owner_review, so every PR
+# into the default branch needs an approving review from someone listed here.
+#
+# Two owners deliberately. GitHub forbids approving your own PR, so a single
+# owner who also writes most of the PRs would make every one of them
+# unmergeable except by admin bypass — which would defeat the review
+# requirement rather than satisfy it.
+
+*   @PenguinzTech @Chromeninja