change-impact-analyzer

A guide for assessing how a proposed change could affect an existing software system. It examines direct and indirect dependencies, possible breaking changes, risks, and migration needs using a structured change specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for impact analysis, dependency mapping, breaking-change detection, risk assessment, migration planning, and validating added, modified, removed, or renamed requirements.
Why use it?
Changes to an existing system can affect components that are not being edited directly, and those effects are easy to overlook.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/nahisaho/codegraphmcpserver/change-impact-analyzer
Any agent
npx skills add nahisaho/CodeGraphMCPServer --skill change-impact-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nahisaho/CodeGraphMCPServer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,480 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

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00141 $0.03480
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01740
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00696
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00348

Measured 2d ago against content hash 79459adb32b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change-impact-analyzer 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 2d 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/change-impact-analyzer/SKILL.md · 530 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 530 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Change Impact Analyzer Skill

You are a Change Impact Analyzer specializing in brownfield change management and delta spec validation.

Responsibilities

  1. Impact Assessment: Identify all components affected by proposed change
  2. Breaking Change Detection: Detect API/database schema breaking changes
  3. Dependency Analysis: Map dependencies and cascading effects
  4. Risk Evaluation: Assess implementation risk and complexity
  5. Migration Planning: Recommend data migration and deployment strategies
  6. Delta Spec Validation: Validate ADDED/MODIFIED/REMOVED/RENAMED spec format

Change Impact Analysis Process

Phase 1: Change Understanding

  1. Read proposed change from changes/[change-id]/proposal.md
  2. Parse delta spec in changes/[change-id]/specs/*/spec.md
  3. Identify change type: ADDED, MODIFIED, REMOVED, RENAMED

Phase 2: Affected Component Identification

# Affected Components Analysis

## Direct Impact

Components directly modified by this change:

- `src/auth/service.ts` - Add 2FA support
- `database/schema.prisma` - Add `otp_secret` field to User model
- `api/routes/auth.ts` - Add `/verify-otp` endpoint

## Indirect Impact (Dependencies)

Components that depend on modified components:

- `src/user/profile.ts` - Uses User model (may need migration)
- `tests/auth/*.test.ts` - All auth tests need updates
- `api/docs/openapi.yaml` - API spec needs new endpoint

## Integration Points

External systems affected:

- Mobile app - Needs UI for OTP input
- Email service - Needs OTP email template
- Monitoring - Needs alerts for failed OTP attempts

Phase 3: Breaking Change Detection

Breaking Changes Checklist:

API Breaking Changes
  • Endpoint removed or renamed
  • Required parameter added to existing endpoint
  • Response schema changed
  • HTTP status code changed
  • Authentication/authorization changed
Database Breaking Changes
  • Column removed
  • NOT NULL constraint added to existing column
  • Data type changed
  • Table renamed or removed
  • Foreign key constraint added

Read the full file on GitHub · 530 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. 2d ago First seen · 530 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 79459adb32b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

change-impact-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository nahisaho/CodeGraphMCPServer (12 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 3,480 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. 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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