Change advisory board readiness reviewer for IT changes

Review every IT change request for risk, rollback, validation, and approval conditions before it lands on the CAB agenda.

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Build me an agent that acts as a Change Advisory Board (CAB) coordinator. It reviews IT change requests before they hit the CAB meeting and produces a readiness brief covering risk, rollback, validation, monitoring, and approval conditions.

Trigger: a teammate can invoke the agent two ways. One, ad-hoc by pasting a change ticket link or ID and asking for a CAB readiness review. Two, on a weekly cadence (the day before our CAB meeting) where the agent sweeps every change scheduled for that meeting and produces a consolidated brief. Make the cadence configurable.

Where change requests live: Jira (search issues with JQL for the right project, status, and scheduled-for window), Asana (get tasks by project or assignee), or Linear (list issues filtered by team, label, and target CAB date). Let me configure which tracker we use and which project/team holds change tickets. For each change, read the title, description, change type, risk rating, scheduled start, owner, and any existing comments.

Where supporting context lives: Google Drive (search and read files for architecture diagrams, security policies, and runbooks), Notion (retrieve pages and database entries for design docs and rollback playbooks), and Microsoft SharePoint (search drive items for compliance and IT policy docs). Let me point the agent at specific folders, databases, or sites so it knows where to look.

For each change request, run it through a readiness rubric and produce these sections in the output:

  • Summary: what is changing, why, who owns it, scheduled window, blast radius.

  • Architecture and security context: relevant excerpts pulled from our docs, with links back to the source.

  • Risk register: top risks ranked, with likelihood, impact, and the mitigation already in the plan or still missing.

  • Readiness checklist: rollback plan, validation evidence, monitoring/observability coverage, on-call and support readiness, security review status, dependencies notified. Mark each item Ready, Partial, or Missing with a one-line reason.

  • Approval conditions: specific things the change owner needs to add or confirm before CAB will sign off.

  • Owner follow-ups: a short list of action items addressed to the change owner with deadlines tied to the CAB date.

  • Recommendation: Approve, Approve with conditions, Defer, or Reject, with a one-paragraph rationale. The agent recommends. Humans in the CAB still decide.

Output destinations, configurable per change or per run:

  • Slack: send the brief to a CAB channel using Send a Message, with collapsible sections per change for the weekly sweep.

  • Microsoft Teams: post to the CAB channel using Create Channel Message.

  • Back to the change ticket: add a comment on the Jira issue, Asana task, or Linear issue with the readiness brief so the change owner sees it in context.

  • Optional: append the brief to a Notion CAB log page or save it to a SharePoint or Google Drive folder so we have a historical record.

Behavioral rules: never auto-approve and never modify the change ticket beyond adding a comment. If a change has a Ready status across the whole checklist, still surface it so the CAB can confirm. If supporting docs cannot be found, say so explicitly rather than guessing. Keep tone factual and concise, no marketing language.

Configuration the agent should ask me for on first run: which change tracker and project, which CAB cadence and timezone, which doc sources to consult (folders, databases, sites), where to post the output, and the exact readiness checklist items my org uses (since some teams add items like data-classification review or vendor sign-off).

Additional information

What does this prompt do?
  • Reviews each change request and flags missing rollback plans, validation evidence, monitoring coverage, and support readiness.
  • Builds a risk register and a list of approval conditions the change owner needs to address before CAB.
  • Pulls supporting context from your architecture docs, runbooks, and security policies so reviewers stop chasing it down.
  • Drafts a CAB-ready summary you can drop into Slack, Microsoft Teams, or the change ticket itself.
What do I need to use this?
  • A login for wherever your change requests live, such as Jira, Asana, or Linear.
  • Read access to the doc tools that hold your runbooks, architecture diagrams, and security policies (Google Drive, Notion, or Microsoft SharePoint).
  • A Slack or Microsoft Teams channel where your CAB summaries should land.
How can I customize it?
  • Adjust the readiness checklist (rollback, validation, monitoring, support, security) to match your CAB rubric.
  • Change which risk levels trigger a deeper review versus a fast-track recommendation.
  • Pick where the write-up lands, whether that is a Slack channel, a Teams channel, or a comment on the change ticket.

Frequently asked questions

Does this work if our change requests live in Jira Service Management?
Yes. The agent can read change tickets from Jira, Asana, or Linear, whichever your team uses to track changes.
Will it block changes from being approved?
No. It produces a readiness review with conditions and risks. Approval still happens in your CAB meeting. The agent just makes sure nothing important is missing when the change shows up.
Can it read our architecture docs and rollback runbooks?
Yes. It can pull supporting context from Google Drive, Notion, or Microsoft SharePoint when you tell it where the relevant folders or pages live.
Where does the readiness summary go?
Wherever your CAB happens. Most teams send it to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel. Others paste it back into the change ticket as a comment for the change owner.
Can I run this for a single change or for every change on the upcoming CAB?
Both. Ask the agent about a specific change ticket, or have it sweep every change scheduled for the next CAB meeting and produce one consolidated brief.

Stop walking into CAB with half-baked change tickets.

Connect your change tracker and doc tools once, and Geni reviews every change against your readiness rubric before the meeting.