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Regulatory Impact Analysis
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-01
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-gov
Produce a regulatory impact analysis (RIA) weighing the costs, benefits, and alternatives of a proposed rule. Use when asked to assess a regulation's impact, do a cost-benefit analysis of a policy, justify a rulemaking, or compare regulatory options. Produces a structured RIA: the problem and rationale, options including the baseline, costs vs. benefits, distributional effects, and a reasoned recommendation.
What to give it
▸The proposed rule & problem — what's proposed and the market failure / risk / harm it addresses.
▸Options — the realistic alternatives (including status quo / non-regulatory approaches), or ask the skill to develop them.
▸Impacts & data — expected costs (compliance, admin, indirect) and benefits (safety, health, efficiency), who bears them, any figures available.
▸Timeframe & discounting — the horizon and any required discount rate.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The problem/market-failure is clearly established before any option is recommended
✓Options include the do-nothing baseline and at least one non-regulatory or lighter alternative
✓Costs and benefits are compared per option, quantified where data allows, with sources
✓Uncertainty is stated honestly (ranges/sensitivity), not hidden behind point estimates
✓Distributional effects and a proportionality-based recommendation are included
✓A review/evaluation mechanism is specified
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not assume regulation is the answer — establish the problem and test the baseline first
Do not present only the preferred option — compare real alternatives
Do not fabricate precise numbers — use ranges and label assumptions where data is thin
Do not ignore who bears the cost — distributional/small-business impact matters
Do not omit proportionality — the benefit must justify the burden imposed
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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