Impact Review
Use this skill when:
- a change may affect more than its origin path
- the repository's follow-through policy still needs a concrete decision in the current task
- you need to decide between no action, immediate reconciliation, or explicit follow-up
Workflow
- Confirm the originating change and the requested scope.
- Find the relevant ownership nodes, overlays, and
Follow-Through Triggers. - Build a short list of downstream surfaces that could realistically matter.
- Inspect only the surfaces whose state could still change the decision.
- Decide which surfaces need no action, an update now, or explicit carry-forward.
- Use scripts, CI, or runbooks for exact repeatable checks.
- Finish by stating what was updated, what was intentionally deferred, and where that follow-through now lives if it matters.
Guardrails
- Do not enumerate the whole repository by default.
- Do not treat every trigger as a command to widen scope aggressively.
- Do not leave meaningful follow-through implicit if the current pass is not closing it.
- Do not create a new skill per trigger shape when this workflow is still sufficient.