# Migration Strategy

> Plan large-scale migrations from old systems to new architectures. Use when modernizing legacy systems or upgrading infrastructure.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-sethdford-claude-skills-migration-strategy`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [sethdford](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/sethdford)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [sethdford](https://github.com/sethdford)
- **Source:** https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills/tree/main/architect/decision-making/skills/migration-strategy

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-sethdford-claude-skills-migration-strategy
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Migration Strategy

Plan phased migrations that minimize risk and disruption while delivering value incrementally.

## Instructions

1. **Assess Current State**: What's working? What's broken?
2. **Define Target State**: New architecture vision
3. **Identify Seams**: Where can you break the system into phases?
4. **Plan Phases**: Each phase delivers value; takes weeks to months
5. **Risk Mitigation**: Parallel running, feature flags, rollback plans
6. **Success Metrics**: How do we measure success of each phase?

## Anti-Patterns

- **Big Bang Rewrite**: Replace everything at once. Result: chaos and failure. **Guard**: Incremental, staged migration.
- **No Parallel Running**: Migrate directly without validation. **Guard**: Run old and new in parallel, validate.

## Further Reading

- _Strangler Fig Pattern_ — incremental replacement
- _Monolith to Microservices_ by Sam Newman

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [sethdford](https://github.com/sethdford)
- **Source:** [sethdford/claude-skills](https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-sethdford-claude-skills-migration-strategy
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/sethdford
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