| name | twg-responsibility-routing |
| description | Use with root `twg` to route owners, subject-matter experts, maintainers, reviewers, approvers, decision authorities, Heads of Engineering, or escalation paths for a topic, area, ask, project, service, or component.
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twg-responsibility-routing
Use the root twg skill. Use this workflow to answer “who should I involve,
why them, and in what role?” Do not assume a broad topic is an exact product.
CLI launcher fallback
Run twg <command>. On shell command not found, use $HOME/.local/bin/twg
(macOS/Linux) / $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\twg\bin\twg.exe (PowerShell), then
tell user to add that directory to PATH. Do not treat auth or command errors as
PATH failures.
Classify The Role
Keep these roles distinct:
- Declared owner: formally accountable for an entity or area.
- Operational owner or maintainer: responsible for current delivery or operation.
- Expert: has source-backed depth in one workstream.
- Reviewer or consulted party: evaluates or advises but may not decide.
- Approver or decision authority: can authorize the specific ask or decision.
- Escalation or Head of Engineering contact: leads the responsible engineering
organization or can route an unresolved ask.
- Informed stakeholder: affected by the decision but not responsible for it.
Resolve Scope Before People
For a fuzzy topic or area, compare one bounded
twg rovo search "<topic>" --app confluence pass with one bounded
twg work search "<topic>" pass. Group same-named results into distinct
initiative, platform, domain, feature, and team clusters. Hydrate 2-5 central
charters, roadmaps, services, projects, or active workstreams before ranking
people. If the sources disagree, show the alternative scopes or ask the user.
For a stable project, goal, component, service, work item, page, or repository,
use that reference directly.
Find Responsibility And Authority
- Use
twg responsibility get <reference> for declared owners, teams,
maintainers, approvers, reviewers, or escalation roles.
- Use
twg responsibility infer <reference> only when declared responsibility
is missing or the user asks for evidence-based candidates. Preserve confidence,
reason codes, evidence window, and declared-versus-observed status.
- Infer primarily from scoped search, declared roles, and hydrated work evidence.
Org data is optional; do not block or weaken the workflow merely because it is
unavailable.
- When org data is connected and a candidate leader or manager is known, prefer
the narrowest useful tree:
org-tree for hierarchy, work-tree for
cross-surface breadth, workitem-tree for Jira work, or pr-tree for PR
authorship/review. Tree counts help validate reach and organizational scope;
they do not by themselves prove expertise, ownership, or approval authority.
- For an approval ask, inspect the artifact that defines the decision: project or
goal ownership, Jira workflow/approver fields, charter, decision record, or
accountable team. State separately who can recommend, who must be consulted,
and who can approve. Never promote an active contributor into an approver.
- For escalation, give the nearest verified owner first. Add the engineering
leader only when the owner is missing, blocked, cross-team, or the ask needs
organizational authority.
Use twg-context-discovery only when relationship or dependency expansion is
needed after the scope and people roles are established. It is not the default
route for a responsibility question.
Evidence And Output
Strong evidence includes explicit ownership, accountable roles, workflow
authority, charter/roadmap leadership, service ownership, sustained decisions,
or repeated central contributions. Profile text, org proximity, one document,
raw activity, or a self-authored update is weak evidence by itself.
For topic/SME maps, return at most five workstreams and one primary expert per
workstream unless the user asks for more. Name an overall owner only with
cross-workstream evidence. For approval or escalation asks, return the proposed
contact, role, scope, evidence, confidence, why they are appropriate, and a
suggested question or reach-out. State when authority is unconfirmed.
Stop when another search would not change scope, role, authority, escalation,
confidence, or the recommended contact.
