security-ownership-map

Purpose

Security Ownership Map

Overview

Build a bipartite graph of people and files from git history, then compute ownership risk and export graph artifacts for Neo4j/Gephi. Also build a file co-change graph (Jaccard similarity on shared commits) to cluster files by how they move together while ignoring large, noisy commits.

Requirements

• Python 3
• networkx (required; community detection is enabled by default)

Install with:

pip install networkx

Workflow

1. Scope the repo and time window (optional --since/--until).
2. Decide sensitivity rules (use defaults or provide a CSV config).
3. Build the ownership map with ./scripts/run_ownership_map.py (co-change graph is on by default; use --cochange-max-files to ignore supernode commits).
4. Communities are computed by default; graphml output is optional (--graphml).
5. Query the outputs with ./scripts/query_ownership.py for bounded JSON slices.
6. Persist and visualize (see ./references/neo4j-import.md).

By default, the co-change graph ignores common “glue” files (lockfiles, .github/*, editor config) so clusters reflect actual code movement instead of shared infra edits. Override with --cochange-exclude or --no-default-cochange-excludes. Dependabot commits are excluded by default; override with --no-default-author-excludes or add patterns via --author-exclude-regex.

If you want to exclude Linux build glue like Kbuild from co-change clustering, pass:

python skills/skills/security-ownership-map/scripts/run_ownership_map.py \
  --repo /path/to/linux \
  --out ownership-map-out \
  --cochange-exclude "**/Kbuild"

Quick start

Run from the repo root:

python skills/skills/security-ownership-map/scripts/run_ownership_map.py \
  --repo . \
  --out ownership-map-out \
  --since "12 months ago" \
  --emit-commits

Defaults: author identity, author date, and merge commits excluded. Use --identity committer, --date-field committer, or --include-merges if needed.