diff --git a/.clang-format b/.clang-format
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+BasedOnStyle: Google
+ColumnLimit: 100
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+IncludeBlocks: Preserve
diff --git a/.clang-tidy b/.clang-tidy
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+---
+# Google style plus correctness/concurrency checks. Naming follows the Google
+# C++ Style Guide, with STL-style lower_case method names for container-like
+# types (explicitly permitted by the guide for STL-consistent interfaces).
+Checks: >
+  bugprone-*,
+  clang-analyzer-*,
+  concurrency-*,
+  google-*,
+  misc-*,
+  modernize-*,
+  performance-*,
+  readability-*,
+  -modernize-use-trailing-return-type,
+  -misc-include-cleaner
+WarningsAsErrors: '*'
+HeaderFilterRegex: 'include/cq/.*'
+CheckOptions:
+  # Complexity contributed by macro expansion (GTest asserts, etc.) is not
+  # the author's complexity.
+  readability-function-cognitive-complexity.IgnoreMacros: 'true'
+  # `auto _` is the general placeholder idiom (a language feature in C++26).
+  readability-identifier-length.IgnoredVariableNames: '^_$'
+  readability-identifier-naming.ClassCase: CamelCase
+  readability-identifier-naming.StructCase: CamelCase
+  readability-identifier-naming.EnumCase: CamelCase
+  readability-identifier-naming.TypeAliasCase: CamelCase
+  readability-identifier-naming.FunctionCase: lower_case
+  readability-identifier-naming.VariableCase: lower_case
+  readability-identifier-naming.ParameterCase: lower_case
+  readability-identifier-naming.PrivateMemberSuffix: '_'
+  readability-identifier-naming.ConstexprVariablePrefix: 'k'
+  readability-identifier-naming.ConstexprVariableCase: CamelCase
+  readability-identifier-naming.NamespaceCase: lower_case
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
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+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+env:
+  # Single parallelism knob: cmake --build and ctest read these from the
+  # environment, and the lint job reuses it for xargs -P.
+  CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL: 4
+  CTEST_PARALLEL_LEVEL: 4
+
+jobs:
+  test-tsan:
+    name: Tests (ThreadSanitizer, ${{ matrix.os }})
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Configure
+        run: cmake -B build-tsan -DENABLE_TSAN=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
+      - name: Build
+        run: cmake --build build-tsan
+      - name: Test
+        # --no-tests=error arms itself once tests/ lands; until then the
+        # scaffolding is allowed to no-op.
+        run: ctest --test-dir build-tsan --output-on-failure --no-tests="$([ -d tests ] && echo error || echo ignore)"
+
+  bench-build:
+    name: Benchmarks (Release, smoke-run)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Configure
+        run: cmake -B build-rel -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCQ_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
+      - name: Build
+        run: cmake --build build-rel
+      - name: Smoke-run benchmarks
+        run: ctest --test-dir build-rel --output-on-failure --no-tests="$([ -d bench ] && echo error || echo ignore)"
+
+  lint:
+    name: clang-format & clang-tidy
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      # Pinned so a runner-image rollover can't change the formatting
+      # contract under us; bump deliberately.
+      CLANG_VERSION: 18
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: clang-format
+        run: git ls-files '*.hpp' '*.ipp' '*.cpp' | xargs -r "clang-format-$CLANG_VERSION" --dry-run --Werror
+      - name: clang-tidy
+        run: |
+          cmake -B build-lint
+          git ls-files '*.cpp' |
+            xargs -r -P "$CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL" -n1 "clang-tidy-$CLANG_VERSION" -p build-lint
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+build*/
+.cache/
+compile_commands.json
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
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+{
+  // Template implementation files are C++ (included from headers).
+  "files.associations": {
+    "*.ipp": "cpp"
+  },
+  // Relayout on save via the repo's .clang-format (Prettier-style).
+  // Works with either the clangd extension or Microsoft's C/C++ extension.
+  "[cpp]": {
+    "editor.formatOnSave": true
+  }
+}
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
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+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.24)
+
+project(concurrent_queue
+  VERSION 0.1.0
+  DESCRIPTION "Concurrent queues in C++20, from locked baseline to lock-free"
+  LANGUAGES CXX)
+
+option(ENABLE_TSAN "Build with ThreadSanitizer" OFF)
+option(CQ_BUILD_TESTS "Build unit and stress tests" ON)
+option(CQ_BUILD_BENCHMARKS "Build Google Benchmark targets" ON)
+
+# Every build tree gets a compile_commands.json for clangd/clang-tidy.
+set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
+
+# Header-only library; consumers inherit C++20 via the compile feature.
+add_library(cq INTERFACE)
+add_library(cq::cq ALIAS cq)
+target_include_directories(cq INTERFACE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
+target_compile_features(cq INTERFACE cxx_std_20)
+
+add_library(cq_warnings INTERFACE)
+target_compile_options(cq_warnings INTERFACE
+  $<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:GNU,Clang,AppleClang>:-Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wconversion>
+  # Validates Doxygen comments against signatures (clang-only).
+  $<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:Clang,AppleClang>:-Wdocumentation>
+  $<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:MSVC>:/W4>)
+
+# Applied only to our own targets: instrumenting the FetchContent deps just
+# slows the build, and TSan still intercepts their pthread-level sync.
+add_library(cq_sanitizers INTERFACE)
+if(ENABLE_TSAN)
+  target_compile_options(cq_sanitizers INTERFACE
+    $<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:GNU,Clang,AppleClang>:-fsanitize=thread -fno-omit-frame-pointer>)
+  target_link_options(cq_sanitizers INTERFACE
+    $<$<CXX_COMPILER_ID:GNU,Clang,AppleClang>:-fsanitize=thread>)
+endif()
+
+include(FetchContent)
+enable_testing()
+
+# The tests/ and bench/ sources land in follow-up PRs; each block is a no-op
+# until its directory exists so the build scaffolding can merge first.
+if(CQ_BUILD_TESTS AND EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/CMakeLists.txt")
+  FetchContent_Declare(
+    googletest
+    URL https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/refs/tags/v1.15.2.tar.gz
+    URL_HASH SHA256=7b42b4d6ed48810c5362c265a17faebe90dc2373c885e5216439d37927f02926
+    DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP TRUE)
+  set(gtest_force_shared_crt ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+  set(INSTALL_GTEST OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(googletest)
+  add_subdirectory(tests)
+endif()
+
+if(CQ_BUILD_BENCHMARKS AND NOT ENABLE_TSAN
+   AND EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/bench/CMakeLists.txt")
+  FetchContent_Declare(
+    benchmark
+    URL https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/refs/tags/v1.9.1.tar.gz
+    URL_HASH SHA256=32131c08ee31eeff2c8968d7e874f3cb648034377dfc32a4c377fa8796d84981
+    DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT_TIMESTAMP TRUE)
+  set(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+  set(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_INSTALL OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(benchmark)
+  add_subdirectory(bench)
+endif()
diff --git a/STYLE.md b/STYLE.md
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+# Style guide
+
+This project follows the [Google C++ Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html)
+for formatting and naming, enforced by `.clang-format` and `.clang-tidy` (both
+checked in CI).
+
+## Comments
+
+- **Public API** (everything under `include/cq/`): Doxygen `///` comments on
+  every public class and member. Use `@tparam`, `@param` / `@param[out]`,
+  `@return`, and `@throws` tags. State the contract: blocking behavior,
+  error/close semantics, ownership, and thread-safety.
+- **Internal code** (tests, benchmarks, private members, function bodies):
+  plain `//` prose. Explain *why*, not *what*.
+- Tag hygiene is compiler-enforced: clang builds compile with
+  `-Wdocumentation`, which rejects `@param` names that do not match the
+  signature. Keep comments in sync with code or the build fails.
+- `TODO(username): description` for known follow-ups.
+
+## Layout
+
+- Headers (`.hpp`) declare; template member definitions live in a matching
+  `.ipp` included at the bottom of the header. No function bodies in class
+  definitions.
+- Special member functions (constructors, copy/move operations, destructor)
+  stay grouped at the top of the `public:` section, with a comment explaining
+  any deleted operations.
+
+## Tooling
+
+- Format: `clang-format -i` (settings live in `.clang-format`). CI rejects
+  unformatted code; format-on-save settings are checked in
+  (`.vscode/settings.json`). CI pins clang-format/clang-tidy **18** — use the
+  same major version locally or formatting may not match.
+- Lint: `clang-tidy -p <build-dir>` (settings live in `.clang-tidy`; every
+  build dir exports `compile_commands.json`).