paw-review-impact
Analyzes system-wide impact of PR changes including integration effects, breaking changes, performance, and security implications.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill paw-review-impact --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Impact Analysis Activity Skill Analyze system-wide impact of PR changes using understanding artifacts from the Understanding stage. > **Reference**: Follow Core Review Principles from `paw-review-workflow` skill. ## Responsibilities - Build integration graph showing what depends on changed code - Detect breaking changes to public APIs, data models, and interfaces - Assess performance implications (algorithms, loops, database queries) - Evaluate security and authorization changes - Assess design and architecture fit - Evaluate user impact (end-users and developer-users) - Document deployment considerations and migration needs - Produce comprehensive ImpactAnalysis.md artifact ## Non-Responsibilities - Code quality or gap identification (handled by paw-review-gap) - Generating review comments (Output stage skills) - Workflow orchestration (handled by workflow skill) ## Prerequisites Verify these artifacts exist at `.paw/reviews/<identifier>/`: - `ReviewContext.md` (PR metadata and parameters) - `CodeResearch.md` (baseline codebase understanding) - `DerivedSpec.md` (what the PR is trying to achieve) If any artifact is missing, report the blocker and do not proceed. ## Step 1: Integr
- Responsibilities
- Non-Responsibilities
- Prerequisites
- Step 1: Integration Graph Building
- Parse Changed Files
- Map Downstream Consumers
- Heuristics
- Output
- Cross-Repository Impact
- Detection
- API Contract Identification
- Cross-Repo Breaking Change Detection
- Dependency Direction
- Update ImpactAnalysis.md Template
What does the paw-review-impact skill do?
Analyzes system-wide impact of PR changes including integration effects, breaking changes, performance, and security implications.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill paw-review-impact --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.