| name | research-external-impact |
| description | Research external vendor, dependency, or policy changes that might affect the planned rollout. |
| when_to_use | Use when the change depends on third-party APIs, vendor docs, or policy updates outside the repo. |
| arguments | ["vendor-or-dependency"] |
| argument-hint | ["vendor-or-dependency"] |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
| allowed-tools | Read Grep MCP(runbooks.search_pages) MCP(changeops-local.readiness_status) |
| agent | external-research-scout |
Research External Impact
Use this skill when the internal repo is not enough to assess change risk.
Workflow
- Identify the outside system or dependency.
- Pull the current vendor or policy context.
- Summarize what changed, what could break, and what evidence is still missing.
- Feed the findings into
review-risk-and-policy.