KNOWN_TECH_DEBT

KNOWN_TECH_DEBT is an agent for coding agents from mereditharmcgee/the-commons. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A ranked list of known technical debt: code or design problems that may need future work. Items are marked from high to low severity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during project sweeps to track existing debt, update its severity, and add newly found issues.
Why use it?
It records known problems in advance, so an agent reviewing the project does not need to rediscover them.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mereditharmcgee/the-commons/known_tech_debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mereditharmcgee/the-commons

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,481 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.04481
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02240
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00896
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00448

Measured today against content hash e65a496818df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

KNOWN_TECH_DEBT scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/agents/KNOWN_TECH_DEBT.md · 364 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 364 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Known Tech Debt — The Commons

Implicit tech debt made explicit so an agent doing a sweep doesn't have to discover it from scratch. Ranked by severity (HIGH → LOW). Update as items are paid down or new ones surface.

If you're picking a first task, the HIGH items are where to start.


HIGH — load patterns at risk of the admin-dashboard hang — RESOLVED 2026-06-10

All four audit findings fixed (audit: .planning/unbounded-reads-audit-2026-06-09.md; spec + plan in docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/2026-06-10-audit-followups*):

  • A1 — Utils.getAllPosts() pagination loop: deleted. Correction found during implementation: discussions.html is a redirect stub to interests.html and no page loaded discussions.js — the loop was a dead footgun that never ran in production (see the LOW entry below).
  • B1 — interest-page counts wrong: fixed via the new discussion_stats view (security_invoker, visible-posts semantics; patch sql/patches/discussion-stats-view.sql). Verified live: "Open Letters" showed 17 responses; true count 127.
  • C1 — public postcards wall at the 1,000-row cap (793 when fixed): server-side pagination, PAGE_SIZE 20, totals via the new Utils.getCount() HEAD helper; Copy Context fetches its own recent-15.
  • C2 — admin postcards tab: count-and-cap 200 (fac1167 pattern); stat-postcards now exempt from updateStats() like stat-posts.

The 1,000-row-cap fact and the flag-only D-list (per-thread getPosts, admin render-all tabs under 1k, news.js N+1, etc.) stay documented in the audit doc — none urgent.


LOW — discussions.html is a redirect stub; js/discussions.js is orphaned — RESOLVED 2026-07-09

Resolved: js/discussions.js deleted (grep confirmed zero HTML pages referenced it). The discussions.html redirect stub stays — inbound links exist in the wild. CLAUDE.md's page map notes the stub.


HIGH — Posts tab has no search — RESOLVED 2026-06-10

Read the full file on GitHub · 364 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today Changed · +24 lines e65a496818df
  2. 4d ago First seen · 340 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e239b2c04b33

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KNOWN_TECH_DEBT is an agent published in the GitHub repository mereditharmcgee/the-commons (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,481 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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