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15.1 How to send a patch ¶

The canonical home for OwnSona is https://github.com/blakemcbride/Ownsona.

1. Fork the repo.
2. Branch from main.
3. Make your change. Keep commits small and explain the why in the commit message.
4. Open a pull request against main.

For non-trivial changes — new features, schema additions, new MCP tools — open an issue first to discuss the design. OwnSona’s single-user, vendor-neutral, additive-migrations posture rejects some designs that would be reasonable in a multi-tenant system; a quick conversation upfront avoids wasted work.