impact-assessment SKILL.md skillA
impact-assessment from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/impact-assessment@git:20260323.771ca1cPins git:20260323.771ca1c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- qa-aman/claude-skills
- Path
skills/by-role/business-analyst/impact-assessment/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260323.771ca1c, committed Mar 23, 2026
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- 21
- License
- MIT
Assess business impact of a proposed change. Use when the user says "impact assessment", "impact analysis", "what will this change affect", "change impact", "who is impacted", "ripple effects", "downstream impact", "impact mapping", "what breaks if we change this", "readiness for change" - even if they don't explicitly say "impact assessment".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Overview
Based on **The Business Analysis Handbook** by Helen Winter - the Impact Mapping framework (Goal to Actors to Impacts to Deliverables) that connects every change to measurable outcomes. Also draws on **Requirements Engineering** by Hull, Jackson, and Dick for Change Impact Analysis methodology, and **Business Process Change** by Paul Harmon for process change impact assessment across Rummler-Brache's 3 levels. The key insight from Winter: impact assessment is not about listing what changes. It is about tracing the chain from a proposed change through every actor it touches, every process it disrupts, and every system it modifies - then quantifying the disruption.
## Workflow
### Step 1: Define the proposed change
```
CHANGE: [What is being proposed]
TRIGGER: [Why this change is happening - business driver, regulation, incident]
SCOPE: [What areas, systems, or processes are affected]
TIMELINE: [When the change will occur]
```
### Step 2: Build the Impact Map (Winter's framework)
Trace the chain:
```
GOAL: [Business objective this change serves]
|
--> ACTOR: [Who is affected?]
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--> IMPACT: [How does this change their work?]
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…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/impact-assessment@sha256:0d726f35731fa6a0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260323.771ca1c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 23, 2026.
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- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
qa-aman/claude-skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5q2wdd7i22yl775e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/impact-assessment GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d726f35731fa6a0c3f859fdc53cea88b4c6d50d81cf4be8206419704f809783
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