Module work_claims 

Work claims: an agent saying “I’m working on this” about a path, branch or topic, so others see it in WhoIsWorkingOn and in overlap notes (docs/specs/SPEC_AGENT_OVERLAP_AWARENESS_2026_10_10.md §3.4).

A claim never blocks anyone: it is information with an expiry. It lives in the always-global identity store, like the work queue, so every channel on this computer sees every claim. It has its own table rather than being a work-queue row: a queue item whose lease lapses goes back to open, where WorkClaim would hand it to another agent as an instruction. An expired claim is simply gone: it is filtered out on every read and deleted on the next write.

Structs

WorkClaim

One live claim. repo, path, absolute_path, branch and topic are the claimed target, resolved the way WhoIsWorkingOn resolves a question (work_facts::matching::Target); any of them may be absent.

Constants

COLS 🔒

HOLDER 🔒

The holder test, as the work queue’s: by UID when the row and the caller both have one, else by name (case-insensitively). ?1 name, ?2 UID.

SCHEMA 🔒

The table, created on every open of the identity store (Store::open_identity_store). A new table with no ALTER, so the store’s schema version is deliberately not bumped: this runs on every open anyway, and a bump would make every older installed build refuse the shared store.

Functions

row_to_claim 🔒