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+# CLAUDE.md
+
+## What this repo is
+
+This is the **`allerion-systems/.github`** repository — GitHub's special
+org-wide "community health files" repo. Its contents are used as
+**org-wide fallback defaults** for every other repository in the
+`allerion-systems` organization that doesn't provide its own copy of the
+same file.
+
+This repo is currently **almost empty**. It contains exactly one file
+beyond git metadata:
+
+```
+profile/README.md
+```
+
+There is one commit in history: `Initialize organization profile`.
+
+## Inventory
+
+- **`profile/README.md`** — the org profile README. GitHub renders this
+  file on the organization's public homepage (`github.com/allerion-systems`).
+  It currently contains marketing copy describing Allerion as building
+  "autonomous intelligence for the built world" (digital twin / BIM,
+  construction ERP, multi-agent orchestration, sovereign/self-hosted AI).
+  This is the *only* content in the repo — there is no other file, at
+  root or under `.github/`.
+
+Everything else GitHub *permits* an org `.github` repo to hold —
+`workflow-templates/`, `ISSUE_TEMPLATE/` or `.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/`,
+`PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md` (root or `.github/`), `CODEOWNERS`,
+`SECURITY.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `FUNDING.yml`, reusable `action.yml`
+files — **does not exist here yet**. Do not assume any of it is present;
+verify with `git ls-files` before referencing it.
+
+## How changes here propagate (read before editing)
+
+GitHub treats specific files in an org's `.github` repo as **implicit,
+org-wide defaults**:
+
+- `profile/README.md` renders on the org's public GitHub homepage —
+  changing it changes what every visitor to `github.com/allerion-systems`
+  sees, immediately.
+- If files like `CODEOWNERS`, `SECURITY.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`,
+  issue templates, or a pull request template are ever added here, they
+  become the **fallback used by any repo in the org that does not have
+  its own copy of that same file**. A repo-local file always wins, but a
+  repo with no local file silently inherits whatever lives here.
+- Similarly, anything placed under `workflow-templates/` becomes an
+  org-wide reusable GitHub Actions template offered to every repo via
+  "Actions → New workflow", regardless of whether any single repo owner
+  asked for it.
+
+This is non-obvious and has a wide blast radius: a small, well-intentioned
+edit in this repo can silently change behavior/defaults/branding across
+every other repository in the org that hasn't opted out with its own
+local override.
+
+## Conventions
+
+There is no established pattern yet for workflow templates or issue
+templates in this repo — none exist. If asked to add one, follow
+GitHub's documented conventions (`workflow-templates/*.yml` +
+matching `workflow-templates/*.properties.json`;
+`.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*.yml` or `.md`) rather than inventing a
+repo-specific structure, since none is established here to follow.
+
+## What an AI agent must NOT casually change here
+
+- **`profile/README.md`** — this is live org branding/marketing copy
+  visible on the public org homepage. Treat content/tone changes as
+  editorial decisions requiring explicit user sign-off, not routine edits.
+- **Any future `CODEOWNERS`, `SECURITY.md`, security policy, or
+  workflow-template file** — because these become silent org-wide
+  fallbacks (see above), adding, editing, or removing them can change
+  default behavior in every other `allerion-systems` repo that lacks its
+  own copy. Confirm the intended blast radius with the user before
+  touching such a file.
+- Do not invent or assume the existence of files this repo does not
+  currently have (issue templates, PR template, CONTRIBUTING, FUNDING,
+  reusable actions). Verify with `git ls-files` first.