diff --git a/packages/kbn-code-owners/index.ts b/packages/kbn-code-owners/index.ts
index b4e83b6194c54..8966b92834089 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-code-owners/index.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-code-owners/index.ts
@@ -8,4 +8,8 @@
  */
 
 export type { PathWithOwners } from './src/file_code_owner';
-export { getPathsWithOwnersReversed, getCodeOwnersForFile } from './src/file_code_owner';
+export {
+  getPathsWithOwnersReversed,
+  getCodeOwnersForFile,
+  runGetOwnersForFileCli,
+} from './src/file_code_owner';
diff --git a/packages/kbn-code-owners/src/file_code_owner.ts b/packages/kbn-code-owners/src/file_code_owner.ts
index 34f7970ca0d82..f413d7f975df0 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-code-owners/src/file_code_owner.ts
+++ b/packages/kbn-code-owners/src/file_code_owner.ts
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
  */
 
 import { REPO_ROOT } from '@kbn/repo-info';
-import { createFailError } from '@kbn/dev-cli-errors';
+import { createFailError, createFlagError } from '@kbn/dev-cli-errors';
 import { join as joinPath } from 'path';
 import { existsSync, readFileSync } from 'fs';
+import { run } from '@kbn/dev-cli-runner';
 
 import type { Ignore } from 'ignore';
 import ignore from 'ignore';
@@ -20,6 +21,10 @@ export interface PathWithOwners {
   teams: string;
   ignorePattern: Ignore;
 }
+const existOrThrow = (targetFile: string) => {
+  if (existsSync(targetFile) === false)
+    throw createFailError(`Unable to determine code owners: file ${targetFile} Not Found`);
+};
 
 /**
  * Get the .github/CODEOWNERS entries, prepared for path matching.
@@ -29,9 +34,7 @@ export interface PathWithOwners {
  */
 export function getPathsWithOwnersReversed(): PathWithOwners[] {
   const codeownersPath = joinPath(REPO_ROOT, '.github', 'CODEOWNERS');
-  if (existsSync(codeownersPath) === false) {
-    throw createFailError(`Unable to determine code owners: file ${codeownersPath} not found`);
-  }
+  existOrThrow(codeownersPath);
   const codeownersContent = readFileSync(codeownersPath, { encoding: 'utf8', flag: 'r' });
   const codeownersLines = codeownersContent.split(/\r?\n/);
   const codeowners = codeownersLines
@@ -66,3 +69,32 @@ export function getCodeOwnersForFile(
 
   return match?.teams;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Run the getCodeOwnersForFile() method above.
+ * Report back to the cli with either success and the owner(s), or a failure.
+ *
+ * This function depends on a --file param being passed on the cli, like this:
+ * $ node scripts/get_owners_for_file.js --file SOME-FILE
+ */
+export async function runGetOwnersForFileCli() {
+  run(
+    async ({ flags, log }) => {
+      const targetFile = flags.file as string;
+      if (!targetFile) throw createFlagError(`Missing --flag argument`);
+      existOrThrow(targetFile); // This call is duplicated in getPathsWithOwnersReversed(), so this is a short circuit
+      const result = getCodeOwnersForFile(targetFile);
+      if (result) log.success(result);
+      else log.error(`Ownership of file [${targetFile}] is UNKNOWN`);
+    },
+    {
+      description: 'Report file ownership from GitHub CODEOWNERS file.',
+      flags: {
+        string: ['file'],
+        help: `
+      --file             Required, path to the file to report owners for.
+              `,
+      },
+    }
+  );
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-code-owners/tsconfig.json b/packages/kbn-code-owners/tsconfig.json
index e97f927147d73..955d0568ca3ce 100644
--- a/packages/kbn-code-owners/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/kbn-code-owners/tsconfig.json
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   ],
   "kbn_references": [
     "@kbn/repo-info",
-    "@kbn/dev-cli-errors"
+    "@kbn/dev-cli-errors",
+    "@kbn/dev-cli-runner"
   ]
 }
diff --git a/scripts/get_owners_for_file.js b/scripts/get_owners_for_file.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f5a07b76ee04c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/get_owners_for_file.js
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the "Elastic License
+ * 2.0", the "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only", and the "Server Side
+ * Public License v 1"; you may not use this file except in compliance with, at
+ * your election, the "Elastic License 2.0", the "GNU Affero General Public
+ * License v3.0 only", or the "Server Side Public License, v 1".
+ */
+
+require('../src/setup_node_env');
+require('@kbn/code-owners').runGetOwnersForFileCli();