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Part of the Overpowered skill suite. Explain material semantic differences between versions or snapshots and assess why they matter. Use for policies, procedures, contracts, requirements, datasets, configurations, APIs, schemas, reports, or other evolving artifacts when the user cares about impact rather than a raw line diff.

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Part of the Overpowered skill suite. Explain material semantic differences between versions or snapshots and assess why they matter. Use for policies, procedures, contracts, requirements, datasets, configurations, APIs, schemas, reports, or other evolving artifacts when the user cares about impact rather than a raw line diff.

The skill document

What Changed

Core rule

Report changes in meaning and consequence, not just changed text or rows.

Procedure

  1. Identify baseline and new version, including effective dates/status when available.
  2. Normalize formatting-only differences so they do not dominate the analysis.
  3. Detect material changes in:
    • obligations / permissions / prohibitions;
    • thresholds, values, units, dates, SLAs;
    • roles and responsibilities;
    • definitions and scope;
    • records added/removed/modified;
    • schema/API/config behavior;
    • dependencies or referenced rules.
  4. Classify each change:
    • material behavior/policy change;
    • potentially breaking;
    • compatible/additive;
    • editorial/formatting;
    • uncertain.
  5. Explain the likely impact and which downstream artifacts or processes should be checked.
  6. Use know-enough only when impact analysis requires external organizational context.
  7. Use reconcile when downstream artifacts still encode conflicting rules.

Output contract

Change
Previous → New
Type / severity
Why it matters
Potentially affected artifacts/processes
Evidence location

End with a short action list, not a generic summary.

Deep reference

Read references/change-severity.md when there are many changes to prioritize or when severity is not obvious.

Gotchas

  • A small textual edit can be a large policy change.
  • A large textual rewrite can be semantically neutral.
  • Do not infer downstream impact without evidence when the dependency is unknown; label it “potential.”
  • For data snapshots, distinguish changed values from newly missing or duplicate records.
  • Effective status matters: draft vs approved can matter more than textual recency.

Stop condition

Stop when all material semantic changes are explained and their known or plausible impact is bounded.

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