/org-chart

name: org-chart
description: Display a beautifully formatted ASCII org chart for any person in the organization — showing their manager, peers, and direct reports in a visual tree.

Org Chart

Render a visual ASCII org chart for any person in the organization. Shows the target person in context — their manager above, their peers alongside, and their direct reports below — in a clear tree layout that fits the terminal.

When to Use

• "Show me the org chart for Firstname2"
• "Draw the org tree for the Platform team lead"
• "What does Firstname8's org look like?"
• "Show my org chart"
• "Visualize the reporting structure under Firstname5"

Instructions

Step 1: Identify the Current User

workiq-ask (
  question: "What is my profile information including display name, email, job title, and department?"
)

Extract **displayName**, **email**, and **jobTitle**.

Step 2: Resolve the Target Person

If the user says "my org chart" or "me", the target is the current user from Step 1.

Otherwise, look up the named person:

workiq-ask (
  question: "Look up the person named <name or email> in the company directory. Return their display name, email, job title, department, and office location."
)

If the response indicates multiple matches, present the options and ask the user to pick.

Step 3: Fetch Org Data

**3a. Get the target's manager and direct reports:**

workiq-ask (
  question: "Who is <target name>'s manager? Include their display name, email, job title, and department."
)

workiq-ask (
  question: "Who are <target name>'s direct reports? For each person include their display name, email, job title, and department."
)

**3b. Walk the full management chain to the root:**

After getting the target's manager, **recursively** ask about each manager's manager until you reach the top of the org:

workiq-ask (
  question: "Who is <current manager name>'s manager? Include their display name, email, job title, and department."
)

Continue until `ask` indicates there is no manager (meaning you've reached the **org root**).

Store the entire chain as an ordered list: `[target, manager, manager's manager, …, org root]`.

**Important performance note:** Each iteration depends on the previous result, so these calls must be sequential. However, the first manager call (3a) and the direct reports call can run in parallel.

**Alternative — full chain in one call:** You can attempt to retrieve the entire chain at once:

workiq-ask (
  question: "What is the full management chain for <target name> all the way up to the CEO? List each person in order from their direct manager to the top, including name, title, and email for each."
)

If the response is complete, skip the recursive loop. If it is truncated or incomplete, fall back to the step-by-step approach above.

Step 4: Clean Up Direct Reports

Filter out non‑primary accounts from the direct reports list:

• Remove entries whose displayName contains "(NON EA SC ALT)", "(SC ALT)", or similar service/alternate account markers.
• Only show real people in the org chart.

Step 5: Classify Roles for Layout

Categorize each direct report by role type for grouping:

| Pattern in jobTitle | Category | Icon | |---|---|---| | Contains "Manager" or "Lead" | 👔 Manager | Shown with count of their reports if known | | Contains "Principal" or "Senior" or "Staff" | 🔧 Senior IC | | | Everything else | 💻 IC | |

Step 6: Render the Org Chart

Layout Rules

1. **The target person is always the visual center** — highlighted with a ⭐ marker. 2. **The full management chain appears above** the target, from the org root at the top down to the direct manager, each connected by vertical lines. Use a compact single‑line‑per‑ancestor format for the chain above the direct manager to avoid excessive height. 3. **The direct manager** appears in a full box immediately above the target. 4. **Direct reports appear below** the target, connected by branch lines. 5. **Group direct reports**: managers first, then senior ICs, then ICs — separated by a thin visual gap. 6. **Truncate long names** to fit terminal width. Abbreviate job titles if needed (e.g., "Principal Software Engineer" → "Prin SWE", "Software Engineering Manager" → "SW Eng Mgr").

Title Abbreviation Map

Use these abbreviations to keep boxes compact:

| Full Title | Short | |---|---| | Principal Software Engineer | Prin SWE | | Senior Software Engineer | Sr SWE | | Software Engineer | SWE | | Software Engineering Manager | SW Eng Mgr | | Principal Software Engineering Manager | Prin SW Eng Mgr | | Partner Group Software Engineering Manager | Partner Grp SW Eng Mgr | | Vice President of Engineering | VP Eng | | Group Engineering Manager | Grp Eng Mgr | | Program Manager | PM | | Senior Program Manager | Sr PM | | Principal Program Manager | Prin PM |

For titles not in this list, abbreviate by removing common words ("of", "the") and shortening ("Software" → "SW", "Engineering" → "Eng", "Manager" → "Mgr").

Output Format

Standard Org Chart (full chain + target + reports)

🏛️ ORG CHART
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

                👤 Firstname1 Lastname1 (CEO)
                │
                👤 Firstname2 Lastname2 (EVP, Products)
                │
                👤 Firstname3 Lastname3 (CVP, Collaboration)
                │
                ┌──────────────────────────────┐
                │     Firstname4 Lastname4      │
                │     VP Eng                    │
                │     firstname4@contoso.com    │
                └──────────────┬───────────────┘
                               │
                ┌──────────────┴──────────────┐
                │  ⭐ Firstname5 Lastname5      │
                │  Engineering Manager         │
                │  firstname5@contoso.com      │
                └──────────────┬──────────────┘
                               │
     ┌────────────┬───────────