code-owners

A tool for finding the people who own, maintain, or understand a particular part of a codebase. It combines recent code changes, documentation, organizational roles, and contact information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find code reviewers, maintainers, subject-matter experts, system owners, and the right people to contact about a specific component.
Why use it?
It helps avoid sending questions or review requests to inactive contributors or the wrong team. The result focuses on a small number of likely contacts rather than a long history of authors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gleanwork/claude-plugins/code-owners
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/claude-plugins --skill code-owners
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 894 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00050 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash 51bd760ceb2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-owners scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/glean/skills/code-owners/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Owners

Identify who owns, maintains, or has expertise in a specific code area.

Determine the component or codebase area from the user's request. If not specified, ask before proceeding.

Core Principles

  • Multi-signal identification: Code + docs + org structure = complete picture
  • Recency matters: Active maintainers are more useful than historical authors
  • Be skeptical: Just having commits doesn't mean they're the right contact
  • Quality over quantity: 2-3 right people beats 10 tangential names

Process

Phase 1: Find Recent Contributors

Search for who's been actively working on this code:

code_search "[component] owner:* updated:past_month"
code_search "[component] from:* updated:past_3_months"

Phase 2: Find Historical Authors

Look for original authors and significant contributors:

code_search "[component] owner:* after:2023-01-01"

Phase 3: Find Related Documentation Authors

People who wrote the docs often have deep knowledge:

search "[component] design doc OR architecture owner:*"
search "[component] RFC owner:*"

Phase 4: Cross-Reference with Org Info

Get current roles and contact info:

employee_search "[contributor names]"

Phase 5: Vet Each Candidate

For each person found, evaluate:

Test ✅ Active Owner ⚠️ Consider ❌ Reject
Ownership Multiple commits in past 3 months, reviews PRs Occasional activity, still relevant Single commit, tangential involvement
Relevance Same team, same area Changed teams but retains context Left company, completely different area
Knowledge Wrote design docs, significant PRs, in CODEOWNERS Regular contributor, knows the code Minor commits, typo fixes
Contact Owns the code, expects questions Knowledgeable but busy/senior — suggest alternatives first Would be surprised to be contacted

Phase 6: Present Vetted Ownership Map

# Code Ownership: [Component]

## Vetting Summary
| Candidates Found | Active Owners | Historical | Rejected |
|------------------|---------------|------------|----------|
| [X] | [Y] | [Z] | [W] |

## Primary Contacts (Recommended)

### 1. [Name] — [Title]
**Confidence**: High
- **Why**: Most active contributor, [X] commits in past month
- **Good for**: Day-to-day questions, PR reviews
- **Last active**: [date]
- **Contact**: [email]

## Secondary Contacts
| Name | Role | Why Secondary | Contact |
|------|------|---------------|---------|
| [Name] | [Title] | Moved to [team] but retains context | [email] |

## Historical Contributors
| Name | Contribution | Current Role | Last Active |
|------|--------------|--------------|-------------|
| [Name] | Original author | Now on [team] | [date] |

## Team Ownership
- **Team**: [team name]
- **Manager**: [name]
- **Slack channel**: [channel] (may be faster than individual outreach)

## Rejected Candidates
| Name | Reason |
|------|--------|
| [Name] | Single commit — typo fix only |
| [Name] | Left company |

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 51bd760ceb2f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-owners is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/claude-plugins (25 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 894 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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