What problem does it solve? IT changes and releases often fail due to missing risk assessment, unclear rollback plans, skipped approvals, or unverified execution. This Skill structures the entire change lifecycle so every production change is scoped, authorized, reversible, and validated against real service behavior. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Change Classification & Risk Assessment: Categorizes changes as Standard, Normal, or Emergency and scores risk by likelihood, impact, detectability, reversibility, novelty, and blast radius. - Approval & Rollback Governance: Enforces separation of duties, CAB preparation, maintenance windows, and a rollback quality gate covering restore points, data reconciliation, and propagation effects. - Execution & Validation Workflow: Guides step-by-step implementation with checkpoints, post-change validation of configuration, runtime, user transactions, and monitoring, plus structured closure reporting. - Use Case: Before deploying a firewall rule update across production regions, use this Skill to build the change record, verify test evidence, obtain scoped approvals, define rollback triggers, and validate each batch with per-target results. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to prepare a change plan with risk assessment, approval requirements, rollback steps, and validation criteria for your upcoming production deployment.
