{"slug": "show-hn-checkowners-to-find-your-repo-s-hidden-single-points-of-failure", "title": "Show HN: CheckOwners to find your repo's hidden single points of failure", "summary": "A developer released checkOwners, an open-source, local-first tool that analyzes Git history to surface hidden knowledge risk in repositories, including knowledge bottlenecks, outdated ownership definitions, and what happens when contributors leave. The tool runs entirely on the user's local system without uploading source code or using an LLM, and also works within GitHub Actions; it is installed via `pip install checkowners` and run with commands such as `checkowners audit` and `checkowners risk`. The author is soliciting feedback from maintainers and platform engineers on how accurately Git history reflects expertise and on the risk analysis findings.", "body_md": "Hey HN Community!\n\nI created checkOwners to solve a problem by many engineering teams: who knows your codebase, and what will happen when they go away?\n\nThis is an open-source, local-first tool which performs analysis based on Git history in order to find hidden knowledge risk in repositories.\n\nIt is able to recognize true experts, recognize out-of-date ownership definitions, find knowledge bottlenecks, propose review candidates, and model what would happen when contributors go away.\n\nAll the magic happens on your own local system without uploading source code or an LLM. It also works within GitHub Actions.\n\nTry it: ``` pip install checkowners checkowners audit checkowners risk ```\n\nWould appreciate any feedback from maintainers and platform engineers regarding the accuracy of Git history reflection of expertise and findings of risk analysis.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330601](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330601)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-checkowners-to-find-your-repo-s-hidden-single-points-of-failure", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/smusali/checkOwners", "published_at": "2026-11-01 22:29:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-01 22:50:58.963765+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["checkOwners", "GitHub Actions", "Git"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-checkowners-to-find-your-repo-s-hidden-single-points-of-failure", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-checkowners-to-find-your-repo-s-hidden-single-points-of-failure.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-checkowners-to-find-your-repo-s-hidden-single-points-of-failure.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-checkowners-to-find-your-repo-s-hidden-single-points-of-failure.jsonld"}}