diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index a28bef15..930b178d 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -5,4 +5,18 @@
 # Default owner for everything, unless overridden by a more specific rule.
 * @Azure-Samples/azure-ai-samples-maintainers
 
-scenarios/docs @Azure-Samples/azure-ai-samples-maintainers @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+scenarios/docs-samples @Azure-Samples/azure-ai-samples-maintainers @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+
+# currently in use in docs: 
+/scenarios/projects/basic/chat-simple.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/projects/basic/chat-template.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/assets/chat_eval_data.jsonl @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/assets/grounded_chat.prompty @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/assets/intent_mapping.prompty @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/assets/products.csv @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/chat_with_products.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/config.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/create_search_index.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/evaluate.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/get_product_documents.py @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs
+/scenarios/rag/custom-rag-app/requirements.txt @Azure-Samples/AI-Platform-Docs