diff --git a/docs/notes/roslyn-tools-and-cli.md b/docs/notes/roslyn-tools-and-cli.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4df66838
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/notes/roslyn-tools-and-cli.md
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+# `dotnet/roslyn-tools` and the C# extractor CLI — what to borrow, what to avoid
+
+A scoping note, prompted by "could `dotnet/roslyn-tools` give us a ready-made C#
+frontend for ownership?" Short answer: **no — it is engineering harness, not an
+analysis source.** Recording the verdict so we don't re-open the question.
+
+## Verdict
+
+`dotnet/roslyn-tools` is a grab-bag of *infrastructure* tooling around Roslyn —
+its own README is honestly terse ("A set of tools used by Roslyn"), and its
+builds live in an Azure package feed. It is **not** a library that "understands
+C# for us."
+
+```text
+not a source of ownership analysis
+a donor of engineering scaffolding (CLI shape, packaging, repo tooling, CI)
+```
+
+For actually reading C# the real sources are **`dotnet/roslyn`, the Roslyn SDK,
+and the Roslyn APIs** — which is exactly what `OwnSharp.Extractor` already uses.
+
+What's actually in `roslyn-tools` (so nobody has to spelunk again): a zoo of
+internal tools — `ModifyVsixManifest`, `SignTool`, `VSIXExpInstaller`,
+`RoslynInsertionTool`, `CompilerPerfTests`, `BuildTasks`, `NuGetRepack`,
+`RepoToolset`, `ProjectDependencies`, and the `Microsoft.RoslynTools` CLI
+(auth, PR finder/tagger, NuGet dependencies/prepare/publish, release tags, VS
+branch info, PR validation, insertion/update-insertion). All release/insertion/
+signing plumbing — none of it ownership.
+
+## Our seam is already the right one
+
+The architecture in the [README](../../README.md) and
+[P-001](../proposals/P-001-csharp-extractor.md) already nails the boundary:
+
+```text
+C# (Roslyn) extractor  ->  OwnIR facts JSON  ->  Python Own.Core  ->  diagnostics mapped back to C#
+```
+
+The C# side is a **fact extractor, not a second checker**. P-001 v0
+(`event += without -=`) already does this: type-aware, project-local
+`SemanticModel`, emits OwnIR facts, and the Python bridge runs them through the
+*existing* core and maps `OWN001` back onto the C# location. A full C# ownership
+frontend (generics / async / interprocedural dataflow) is explicitly rejected as
+"human-years." Keep it rejected.
+
+## What to borrow from `roslyn-tools`
+
+1. **CLI-first, shipped as a `dotnet tool`** — not a VSIX, not an analyzer
+   package first. The mature tooling repos all start from a CLI:
+
+   ```bash
+   ownsharp extract --project MyApp.csproj --out facts.ownir.json
+   ownsharp check   --solution MyApp.sln
+   ownsharp explain OWN001 --json diagnostic.json
+   ```
+
+   Why: easier CI, easier debug, easier golden tests, and no living inside a
+   Visual Studio extension before the analysis is even solid. (Use
+   `System.CommandLine`, as they do.) IDE squiggles come *later*.
+
+2. **Repo-tooling separation.** Their repo tools live apart from compiler logic;
+   we want the same layering so one concern can't break another:
+
+   ```text
+   Own.Core            Python checker / OwnIR schema + logic
+   OwnSharp.Extractor  C# Roslyn fact extractor
+   Own.Cli             orchestration (extract / check / explain)
+   Own.Tests           golden facts + expected diagnostics
+   Own.Corpus          real-world before/after cases
+   ```
+
+   Don't blend Roslyn-walking, OwnIR schema, ownership logic, diagnostic
+   rendering, and CI packaging into one pile — that's how "the event-handler
+   change broke ArrayPool codegen" becomes a recurring genre.
+
+3. **`ProjectDependencies` as a *category*, not a dependency.** For a future
+   DI-lifetime checker and solution-wide scans we'll need the solution/project
+   graph (project references, package references, target frameworks, compilation
+   references). The v0 WPF event extractor doesn't need it; DI/effects will.
+
+## What NOT to do
+
+- **Don't take `roslyn-tools` as a dependency.** It is an internal tooling repo;
+  importing its insertion/release/signing baggage "in case it's useful" is the
+  classic way to adopt someone else's enterprise suitcase without a handle.
+- **Don't reimplement the checker in C#.** P-001 already says "Do not reimplement
+  the checker in C#" — worth carving in stone. The C# frontend's whole job is:
+
+  ```text
+  find syntax/semantic facts -> resolve symbols -> get the location -> emit OwnIR
+  ```
+
+  It must **not** decide ownership, join states at merges, reason about borrows,
+  or otherwise produce an alternative truth. One checker; the C# side feeds it.
+
+## Next PR (concrete, no scope creep)
+
+`OwnSharp.Extractor` CLI: turn a `.csproj` into `facts.ownir.json`, then firm up
+the contract and a golden until it's presentable.
+
+```bash
+dotnet run --project frontend/roslyn/OwnSharp.Extractor \
+  --project samples/WpfLeakSample/WpfLeakSample.csproj \
+  --out artifacts/facts.ownir.json
+python -m ownlang ownir artifacts/facts.ownir.json
+# -> CustomerViewModel.cs:9: error: [OWN001] event 'bus.CustomerChanged'
+#    is subscribed (handler 'OnCustomerChanged') but never unsubscribed
+```
+
+A facts record carries enough to place and explain the finding — kind, resource,
+owner, subject, location, and domain-neutral metadata:
+
+```json
+{
+  "ownir_version": 0,
+  "source": "CustomerViewModel.cs",
+  "facts": [
+    {
+      "kind": "acquire",
+      "resource": "subscription",
+      "owner": "this",
+      "subject": "bus.CustomerChanged",
+      "location": { "file": "CustomerViewModel.cs", "line": 9, "column": 13 },
+      "metadata": { "handler": "OnCustomerChanged", "resource_kind": "subscription token" }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+This already works conceptually (`tests/test_ownir.py` exercises the bridge on
+hand-written facts); the work is hardening the CLI/contract/golden.
+
+## WPF track priorities (once the CLI is solid)
+
+```text
+1. event += without -=        v0; drive to an iron golden
+2. DispatcherTimer            Tick += / Start  =>  Stop + Tick -=
+3. IDisposable fields         an owned field must be disposed by the owner's Dispose
+4. Subscribe() -> IDisposable an ignored token => leak
+5. region/lifetime facts      App > Window > ViewModel  =>  OWN014
+```
+
+The `ArrayPool`/`Span` storage track lives alongside this, not blocking it. One
+pattern, one facts schema, one golden, one CI step at a time — then the next
+pattern.
+
+## Where `roslyn-tools` *does* help later
+
+`dotnet tool` packaging, build/release automation, VSIX packaging (if an IDE
+extension ever happens), repo-wide validation, perf-testing style, and CI
+conventions. Useful as a *worked example* of the engineering layer — not as a
+source of the analysis.