impact-analysis

impact-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis workflow for understanding the effects of a planned change across technology, connected systems, people, and business processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when retiring or upgrading a system, replacing a tool, moving to the cloud, or adding a capability. It can assess technical, organizational, process, and financial impact.
Why use it?
It helps reveal knock-on effects and risks that may be missed when looking only at the system being changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidroliverba/architectkb/impact-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB --skill impact-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,243 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.03243
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01622
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00649
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00324

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0765830c2d0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

impact-analysis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/impact-analysis/SKILL.md · 502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 502 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/impact-analysis Skill

Analyze the impact of architectural changes on systems, integrations, and organizational outcomes.

When to Use This Skill

Use /impact-analysis when you need to understand consequences of changes:

  • Assess impact of retiring a system
  • Understand cascading failures if a system goes down
  • Evaluate impact of technology upgrades
  • Analyze organizational impacts (skills, processes, teams)
  • Create risk mitigation plans for major changes

Usage

/impact-analysis <change-description> [scope] [options]

Parameters

Parameter Description Required
change-description What is changing (e.g., "Retire Tableau") Yes
scope What to analyze (systems, people, process, financial, technical, all) Optional
--depth Analysis depth (quick, standard, comprehensive) Optional
--format Output format (markdown, spreadsheet, presentation) Optional

Workflow

Phase 1: Define Change

User describes the change:

  1. What is changing?

    • Retire a system
    • Upgrade technology
    • Replace tool
    • Migrate to cloud
    • Add new capability
  2. Affected systems (optional - auto-detected if omitted)

    • Which systems involved?
    • Primary system(s) affected
    • Secondary dependencies
  3. Timeline (optional)

    • When does change happen?
    • Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3?
    • Go-live date?
  4. Scope of analysis (optional)

    • Systems impact (technical)
    • Integration impact (data flows)
    • People impact (teams, skills)
    • Process impact (workflows)
    • Financial impact (cost, ROI)
    • All of the above

Phase 2: Analyze Impacts

The skill:

  1. Maps dependencies

    • Finds all systems that depend on changed system
    • Identifies integration points
    • Maps data flows
  2. Calculates cascading effects

    • If system X goes down, what breaks?
    • What is recovery path?
    • How long until restoration?
  3. Identifies organizational impacts

    • Which teams affected?
    • What skills required?
    • Who needs training?

Read the full file on GitHub · 502 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 502 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0765830c2d0f

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impact-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB (52 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,243 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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