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Linking and escalation

Find related Jira issues and Slack threads, link them both ways, and escalate with approval.

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Every write needs your approval

  • Filing a Jira bug or feature request, linking an existing issue, or pinging an engineer on Slack opens an approval card showing the exact text that will be written
  • Each approval is single-use, tied to you, and expires after 30 minutes. If the content changes, it must be approved again
  • Possible duplicates are shown first, with a suggestion to link instead
  • Missing fields are listed; the button changes to Approve anyway
  • Esc skips, ⌘↵ approves

What gets written

  • Bug and feature templates: impact, tickets, environment and version, repro steps, expected vs actual, logs, ruled out, and S1–S4 severity with a suggestion
  • Two-way links: a Jira remote link, a Zendesk jira_<key> tag plus private note, or a ServiceNow work note
  • Owner routing: on-call, then Jira component lead, then CODEOWNERS. Pings never use @channel or @here
  • Customer PII is stripped; ticket ids, error codes and versions are kept