diff --git a/zddc/internal/zddc/defaults.zddc.yaml b/zddc/internal/zddc/defaults.zddc.yaml
index 4cffa80..2b12a03 100644
--- a/zddc/internal/zddc/defaults.zddc.yaml
+++ b/zddc/internal/zddc/defaults.zddc.yaml
@@ -206,7 +206,24 @@ paths:
       working:
         default_tool: browse
         available_tools: [browse]
+        # Project-level working is BOTH an outstanding-only aggregator of
+        # the per-party archive/<party>/working/ slots AND the home for
+        # each user's personal workspace at <project>/working/<email>/.
         virtual: true
+        # Edit-history versioning for personal markdown drafts (inherits
+        # to the <email>/ homes below). archive/<party>/working/ carries
+        # its own history: true separately.
+        history: true
+        paths:
+          "*":
+            # Per-user personal workspace: <project>/working/<email>/.
+            # auto_own (NOT auto_own_fenced) makes the creator the owner
+            # (rwcda + a .zddc they can edit) while leaving the home PUBLIC
+            # by default — the owner opts into privacy by adding
+            # inherit:false / restricting permissions in their own .zddc.
+            default_tool: browse
+            available_tools: [browse]
+            auto_own: true
       staging:
         default_tool: browse
         available_tools: [browse]
diff --git a/zddc/internal/zddc/lookups_test.go b/zddc/internal/zddc/lookups_test.go
index 028f463..366e9ab 100644
--- a/zddc/internal/zddc/lookups_test.go
+++ b/zddc/internal/zddc/lookups_test.go
@@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ func TestDefaultToolAt_FromEmbeddedConvention(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // TestHistoryAt_Defaults — the embedded convention enables edit-history
-// versioning on archive/<party>/working/ and (because history is
-// subtree-inheriting and ignores the auto_own_fenced homes' inherit:false)
-// on the per-user homes and any depth beneath them. Sibling slots do not
-// get history.
+// versioning on BOTH (a) the project-level personal workspace
+// <project>/working/ + its per-user <email>/ homes, and (b) the per-party
+// archive/<party>/working/ + its homes. History is subtree-inheriting and
+// ignores the homes' inherit:false fences. Sibling slots (staging,
+// reviewing, mdl, incoming, received) do NOT get history.
 func TestHistoryAt_Defaults(t *testing.T) {
 	resetCache()
 	root := t.TempDir()
@@ -60,9 +61,17 @@ func TestHistoryAt_Defaults(t *testing.T) {
 		path string
 		want bool
 	}{
+		// Project-level personal workspace.
+		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "working"), true},
+		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "working", "alice@example.com"), true},
+		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "working", "alice@example.com", "notes"), true},
+		// Per-party working.
 		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "archive", "Acme", "working"), true},
 		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "archive", "Acme", "working", "alice@example.com"), true},
 		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "archive", "Acme", "working", "alice@example.com", "notes"), true},
+		// Sibling slots get no history.
+		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "staging"), false},
+		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "reviewing"), false},
 		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "archive", "Acme", "mdl"), false},
 		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "archive", "Acme", "incoming"), false},
 		{filepath.Join(root, "Project-X", "archive", "Acme", "staging"), false},