forensic-knowledge-mapping

To calculate the truck factor, this skill analyzes Git commit history to compute ownership percentages across files and identify single-owner files where over 80% of commits are from one contributor.

Code ownership analysis maps commit history to reveal ownership concentration, identifying single-owner files and knowledge silos where critical codebase knowledge is held by only one developer.

You can reduce bus factor risk by analyzing ownership distributions to surface high-risk single-owner files, then applying research-backed mitigation strategies to plan targeted knowledge transfer and onboarding.

Yes, you can detect single-owner files by analyzing Git history for commit concentration, then cross-reference those files with code hotspots to surface areas requiring immediate knowledge transfer.

The ownership analysis works across large codebases by processing Git history over a defined time range, such as the last 12 months, to generate a comprehensive knowledge map of file ownership distributions.

The analysis uses a research-backed threshold where any file with over 80% of commits from a single contributor is classified as a single-owner file, flagging it for immediate knowledge transfer mitigation.