planning-impact-analysis

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps prevent critical oversights by systematically identifying all systems, contracts, and data that a proposed change might affect, thereby reducing the risk of unexpected regressions.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Systemic Impact Identification: Pinpoints all potentially affected components, from UI to databases and infrastructure.
• Contractual Awareness: Lists all external interfaces, APIs, events, and data formats that are touched by the change.
• Data Integrity Check: Assesses the impact on data schemas, migrations, and integrity constraints.
• Regression Hotspotting: Highlights areas with a higher likelihood of introducing bugs.
• Use Case: Before deploying a new feature that modifies user authentication, use this Skill to understand which microservices, frontend applications, and databases will need to be updated, and which API contracts might be affected.

Quick Start

Analyze the impact of changing the user profile service.