Change Surface

GPTClaudeGemini··▲ 524 copies·updated 2026-07-14

change-surface.prompt

Assess impact of a template change on generated artifacts, tests, and release risk.

Use source-template and generated-artifact evidence.

Output exactly in this format:

## Change Surface

- template scope
- affected artifact types
- likely generated paths

## Impact Findings

For each finding:

- impacted path
- impact type: BEHAVIOR | DOCS | TESTS | TOOLING
- risk
- required validation

## Regression Risk

List highest-risk regressions first.

- scenario
- likelihood: HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW
- mitigation

## Verification Plan

- commands to run
- expected pass criteria

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo eschaar/vstack (MIT). A "Change Surface" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.