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+# Configuration
+
+To get started there's a few things you should do.
+
+1) Create a `config/code_ownership.yml` file and declare where your files live. Here's a sample to start with:
+
+```yml
+owned_globs:
+  - '{app,components,config,frontend,lib,packs,spec}/**/*.{rb,rake,js,jsx,ts,tsx}'
+js_package_paths: []
+unowned_globs:
+  - db/**/*
+  - app/services/some_file1.rb
+  - app/services/some_file2.rb
+  - frontend/javascripts/**/__generated__/**/*
+```
+
+2) Declare some teams. Here's an example, that would live at `config/teams/operations.yml`:
+
+```yml
+name: Operations
+github:
+  team: '@my-org/operations-team'
+```
+
+3) Declare ownership. You can do this at a directory level or at a file level. All of the files within the `owned_globs` you declared in step 1 will need to have an owner assigned (or be opted out via `unowned_globs`). See the next section for more detail.
+4) Run validations when you commit, and/or in CI. If you run validations in CI, ensure that if your `.github/CODEOWNERS` file gets changed, that gets pushed to the PR.
+
+## Usage: Declaring Ownership
+
+There are three ways to declare code ownership using this gem.
+
+### Directory-Based Ownership
+
+Directory based ownership allows for all files in that directory and all its sub-directories to be owned by one team. To define this, add a `.codeowner` file inside that directory with the name of the team as the contents of that file.
+
+```text
+Team
+```
+
+### File-Annotation Based Ownership
+
+File annotations are a last resort if there is no clear home for your code. File annotations go at the top of your file, and look like this:
+
+```ruby
+# @team MyTeam
+```
+
+### Package-Based Ownership
+
+Package based ownership integrates [`pks`](https://github.com/rubyatscale/pks) and has ownership defined per package. To define that all files within a package are owned by one team, configure your `package.yml` like this:
+
+```yml
+enforce_dependency: true
+enforce_privacy: true
+metadata:
+  owner: Team
+```
+
+You can also define `owner` as a top-level key, e.g.
+
+```yml
+enforce_dependency: true
+enforce_privacy: true
+owner: Team
+```
+
+### Glob-Based Ownership
+
+In your team's configured YML (see [`code_teams`](https://github.com/rubyatscale/code_teams)), you can set `owned_globs` to be a glob of files your team owns. For example, in `my_team.yml`:
+
+```yml
+name: My Team
+owned_globs:
+  - app/services/stuff_belonging_to_my_team/**/**
+  - app/controllers/other_stuff_belonging_to_my_team/**/**
+```
+
+### Javascript Package Ownership
+
+Javascript package based ownership allows you to specify an ownership key in a `package.json`. To use this, configure your `package.json` like this:
+
+```json
+{
+  // other keys
+  "metadata": {
+    "owner": "My Team"
+  }
+  // other keys
+}
+```
+
+You can also tell `codeowners` where to find JS packages in the configuration, like this:
+
+```yml
+js_package_paths:
+  - frontend/javascripts/packages/*
+  - frontend/other_location_for_packages/*
+```
+
+This defaults `**/`, which makes it look for `package.json` files across your application.
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Javscript package ownership does not respect `unowned_globs`. If you wish to disable usage of this feature you can set `js_package_paths` to an empty list.
+
+```yml
+js_package_paths: []
+```
+
+## Usage: Generating a `CODEOWNERS` file
+
+A `CODEOWNERS` file defines who owns specific files or paths in a repository. When you run `codeowners generate-and-validate`, a `.github/CODEOWNERS` file will automatically be generated and updated.
+
+## Proper Configuration & Validation
+
+CodeOwnership comes with a validation function to ensure the following things are true:
+
+1) Only one mechanism is defining file ownership. That is -- you can't have a file annotation on a file owned via package-based or glob-based ownership. This helps make ownership behavior more clear by avoiding concerns about precedence.
+2) All teams referenced as an owner for any file or package is a valid team.
+3) All files have ownership. You can specify in `unowned_globs` to represent a TODO list of files to add ownership to.
+4) The `.github/CODEOWNERS` file is up to date. This is automatically corrected and staged unless specified otherwise with `codeowners generate-and-validate`. 
+
+CodeOwnership also allows you to specify which globs and file extensions should be considered ownable.
+
+Here is an example `config/code_ownership.yml`.
+
+```yml
+owned_globs:
+  - '{app,components,config,frontend,lib,packs,spec}/**/*.{rb,rake,js,jsx,ts,tsx}'
+unowned_globs:
+  - db/**/*
+  - app/services/some_file1.rb
+  - app/services/some_file2.rb
+  - frontend/javascripts/**/__generated__/**/*
+```
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           Print version
 ```
 
+#### Getting Started
+
+See the [CONFIGURATION.md](CONFIGURATION.md) file for more information on how to codeowners.
+
 #### for-file
 
 Finds the owner of a given file.
@@ -61,7 +65,9 @@ $ codeowners for-file javascript/packages/PayrollFlow/index.tsx
 
 Team: Payroll
 Team YML: config/teams/payroll.yml
-Description: Owner annotation at the top of the file, Owner defined in `javascript/packages/PayrollFlow/package.json` with implicity owned glob: `javascript/packages/PayrollFlow/**/**`
+Description: 
+- Owner annotation at the top of the file.
+- Owner defined in `javascript/packages/PayrollFlow/package.json` with implicity owned glob: `javascript/packages/PayrollFlow/**/**`
 
 ```