Estate-Wide Impact Analysis
Cross-project breaking change detection that traces the blast radius through the federated intent graph, generates per-consumer impact reports, and auto-creates migration tasks on the task board.
When Does Estate Impact Analysis Run?
Estate impact analysis is triggered during the hub import ceremony when a re-imported artefact contains breaking changes to existing contracts. The structural diff engine compares the incoming content against the registry's stored content snapshots to detect property removals, renames, type changes, and other breaking modifications.
How It Works
Change Severity Classification
Structural changes are classified into three severity levels based on their potential impact on consumers.
The Impact Report
The estate impact report provides a structured breakdown of the blast radius.
Migration Task Generation
For each breaking change that affects a consumer, the system automatically creates a task board card. Cards carry full impact metadata - the source change, affected node IDs, severity, and a human-readable explanation. Tasks are grouped by the source artefact with a progress counter, making it easy to track migration completion across the estate.
Transitive Impact Traversal
The analysis does not stop at direct consumers. If project A's breaking change affects project B, and project B produces a contract consumed by project C, the federated graph traversal follows the chain to include project C in the impact report. This transitive analysis ensures nothing is missed, even in deeply interconnected estates where changes can ripple through multiple levels of dependency.