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Change Request

Turns your change idea into a proper CAB-ready document with impact analysis, risk assessment, and a rollback plan. You give it a description of what you want to change, and it walks through the assess-plan-execute-sustain framework to build out a structured request with stakeholder communication plans and approval workflows. It's overkill if you're just tweaking a config file, but if you need to present something to a change advisory board or coordinate a deployment that touches multiple teams, it gives you the format and forces you to think through the parts you'd otherwise skip. Connects to ITSM tools to create tickets automatically.

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last updated
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Install

$ npx -y skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill change-request --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

/change-request

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Create a structured change request with impact analysis, risk assessment, and rollback plan.

Usage

/change-request $ARGUMENTS

Change Management Framework

Apply the assess-plan-execute-sustain framework when building the request:

1. Assess

  • What is changing?
  • Who is affected?
  • How significant is the change? (Low / Medium / High)
  • What resistance should we expect?

2. Plan

  • Communication plan (who, what, when, how)
  • Training plan (what skills are needed, how to deliver)
  • Support plan (help desk, champions, FAQs)
  • Timeline with milestones

3. Execute

  • Announce and explain the "why"
  • Train and support
  • Monitor adoption
  • Address resistance

4. Sustain

  • Measure adoption and effectiveness
  • Reinforce new behaviors
  • Address lingering issues
  • Document lessons learned

Communication Principles

Sponsors

Details

Repository
github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Categories
Git & Pull Requests, Code Review & Quality, Productivity & Planning
First seen
Apr 16, 2026

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