feat: add impact assessment agent

[santanug5ai]

What

Add a new Impact Assessment Agent skill and documentation to the BMM skill set for evaluating change impact, dependencies, and mitigation options.

Why

This contribution provides a focused agent persona that helps teams assess business and technical impact before implementation, improving planning quality and decision support.

How

• Added a new BMAD skill under the planning workflow module for the Impact Assessment Agent
• Defined the persona, principles, and menu prompt for impact analysis
• Added documentation and example prompts for usage

Testing

Verified the new contribution files are present in the repository and pushed the branch for review.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds an Impact Assessment Agent skill with configurable Iris persona, activation workflow, assessment menu command, persistent project context loading, and documentation covering use cases and example prompts.

Changes

Impact Assessment Agent

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Agent configuration and activation src/bmm-skills/2-plan-workflows/bmad-agent-impact-assessment/customize.toml, src/bmm-skills/2-plan-workflows/bmad-agent-impact-assessment/SKILL.md	Defines the Iris persona, assessment principles, IMPACT command, project-context loading, customization resolution, language configuration, and interaction flow.
Agent documentation docs/impact-assessment-agent.md	Describes the agent’s purpose, suggested use cases, and example prompts for impact, risk, dependency, and rollout analysis.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~4 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD#2289: Adds discovery support for skills containing customize.toml files, including this agent’s configuration.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding an impact assessment agent.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately matches the added agent skill, documentation, and purpose of impact analysis.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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Inline comments:
In `@src/bmm-skills/2-plan-workflows/bmad-agent-impact-assessment/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 44-46: Update the Iris activation flow in SKILL.md to execute
`{agent.activation_steps_append}` after the persona becomes active and before
responding directly or rendering `{agent.menu}` and waiting for user input.
Preserve the existing behavior for impact-assessment requests and menu handling.
- Around line 21-23: Update the Step 1 “Resolve the Agent Block” instructions to
invoke resolve_customization.py with uv run instead of python3. Instruct the
agent to apply the loaded customization context and activation steps, handle
resolution failures, incorporate {agent.persistent_facts}, and prepend
{agent.activation_steps_prepend} before continuing.

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⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (1)

• src/bmm-skills/module-help.csv is excluded by !**/*.csv

📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• docs/impact-assessment-agent.md
• src/bmm-skills/2-plan-workflows/bmad-agent-impact-assessment/SKILL.md
• src/bmm-skills/2-plan-workflows/bmad-agent-impact-assessment/customize.toml

[santanug5ai]

updated review comments . please review

[santanug5ai]

Please review

[santanug5ai]

can you please review and approve the workflow..

[santanug5ai]

changes done..please review.

[bmadcode]

I do not think this requires a whole new agent @santanug5ai for the single prompt. we already have the business analyst and product manager either of which could have an internal capability added for doing this analysis.

[santanug5ai]

I do not think this requires a whole new agent @santanug5ai for the single prompt. we already have the business analyst and product manager either of which could have an internal capability added for doing this analysis.

Thank you @bmadcode for your comment. My focus is on a deep technical impact analysis agent that can leverage the entire enterprise context against business requirements, enabling Business Analysts and Product Managers to assess technical impacts effectively. However, a single agent is unlikely to provide comprehensive, in-depth analysis across all interconnected enterprise components. Such analysis would typically require a multi-agent or specialized domain-agent approach.