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Add domains and each team owns its own thresholds and its own baseline, without editing a shared file. The root declares where domains may live, so a stray config cannot quietly create one.

# bonsai-lint.toml at the repository root
domains   = ["packages/*", "services/*"]
threshold = 15

# packages/web/bonsai-lint.toml
name      = "web"
threshold = 20

packages/web/.bonsai-lint-baseline.json       # each domain keeps its own
services/billing/.bonsai-lint-baseline.json

--write-baseline then writes one file per domain and prints what it wrote, or says that there was nothing to record. Baseline keys are relative to the domain root, so they survive being checked out anywhere, on any platform. A domain’s own exclude is relative to its root too; the root’s applies everywhere.

--baseline PATH keeps every domain in one file of your choosing instead. Its keys are relative to the repository root, so two domains with a src/index.ts cannot collide. Which to use is your call: one file is simpler for a small repository, while per-domain files stay short and put each team’s accepted debt in the directory that team owns.

Wherever you point the CLI, the workspace is the same one. Discovery walks up from the first scanned path and takes the outermost bonsai-lint.toml that declares domains as the root, so bonsai-lint packages/web applies the same root excludes, inherited thresholds and domain list as bonsai-lint ., and so does an editor buffer. Without a domains declaration anywhere, the nearest config is the root. --config PATH starts the walk somewhere else.