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What Is Team Representative?

Last updated: April 2026

Definition

A Team Representative combines published wraps from every member of a team into a single queryable surface. Instead of reading six individual wraps, you ask the Team Representative a question and get a sourced answer that spans the entire team's output.

Team Representatives turn status meetings into queries. 'What shipped overnight?' returns a sourced list from every engineer who published a wrap. 'Who owns the auth service?' returns a name and a timestamp. Every answer cites the specific engineer and wrap it came from.

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What is a Team Representative?

A Team Representative rolls up wraps from every member of a team into a single queryable surface. It answers questions about team-wide status, ownership, and blockers by drawing from each team member's published wrap. Every answer cites the specific engineer and timestamp it came from.

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