SKILL01codebase-intelligence
Analyzing Change Blast Radius
Bounds the potential impact of a proposed change across direct and inferred dependents, contracts, runtime paths, tests, and fixtures.
Primary benefit
Surfaces evidence-backed risk and unresolved impact before a team chooses implementation slices or protection strategy.When to use
Use when a proposed change may affect multiple consumers, contracts, runtime paths, data flows, tests, or fixtures and you need an evidence-bounded impact map before planning.
When not to use
Do not use to choose migration slices or implement protections; Planning Safe Refactors owns migration strategy and Quality & Testing owns regression-test design.
Use cases
Assess which callers, contracts, tests, and user paths may be affected by changing a shared interface
Identify direct and transitive impact evidence before replacing infrastructure, persistence, or framework behavior
Example prompts
Use analyzing-change-blast-radius to bound the impact of this proposed change across dependents, contracts, runtime paths, tests, and fixtures. Mark findings as observed, inferred, or unresolved and cite the source and location for every material claim.Install this skill
Choose the command for your operating system and run it from the repository root.
Bash
./install.sh --skill analyzing-change-blast-radiusPowerShell
./install.ps1 --skill analyzing-change-blast-radiusChatGPT
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- ChatGPT · Codex · Claude Code
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install modes
- PluginFilesystem
Dependencies
No external dependencies
Part of systems
Curated systems that canonically include this method.
Used in evidence
Reports that explicitly list this method among the applied methods.