# SCOPE

## One-liner

Keeps material delivered to the ecosystem and routes it by topic to the repositories that asked to see it.

## Core Idea

See INTENT.md. Email and registered sources go into an append-only, content-addressed
item store. File-backed registries of topics, sources and subscriptions decide
who is told about each item. Notices reach consumers as State Hub agent messages,
through a pull CLI, and in periodic digest files.

## In Scope

- Read-only IMAP intake from one dedicated mailbox.
- Items with original bytes, provenance and derived text; integrity checking.
- Registries of topics, sources (including sources contributed by consumers) and subscriptions.
- Matching, idempotent notices, pull access, digest files.
- Scheduling, health reporting and quarantine on the workstation, later in the cluster.

## Out of Scope

- Sending mail other than notices. email-connect owns email delivery and its evidence.
- Scraping signed-in websites, or any intake that breaks a provider's terms of service.
- Judging whether material is relevant or credible. Consumers review it.
- Replacing a consumer's own evidence store.

## Current State

- Status: inception. INTENT drafted 2026-10-05, no code yet.
- First consumer: intelligence-radar (Grok and ChatGPT daily and weekly briefs).

## Getting Oriented

- Start with: INTENT.md
- Agent instructions: AGENTS.md
- Workplans: workplans/