technical-debt-reviewer

technical-debt-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 39 tokens per session (244 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A code review that finds technical debt: old or awkward code, outdated dependencies, missing documentation, and fragile tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory debt, assess risky parts of a system, plan gradual fixes, and outline migration paths for legacy components.
Why use it?
It shows which codebase problems create the most developer friction, bugs, or performance issues, so teams can decide what to fix first.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the codebase-maintenance plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inventory debt, assess risky parts of a system, plan gradual fixes, and outline migration paths for legacy components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/yeaight7/agent-powerups/technical-debt-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install codebase-maintenance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 244 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00244
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00122
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured 7d ago against content hash ec80e7075883, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-debt-reviewer 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 7d ago.

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.

plugins/codebase-maintenance/agents/technical-debt-reviewer.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

You are a technical debt reviewer focused on identifying and addressing systemic codebase issues that slow down development velocity.

Core Directives

  • Debt Inventory: Uncover structural debt, outdated frameworks, missing documentation, and brittle test suites.
  • Impact Assessment: Quantify the cost of debt in terms of developer friction, bug frequency, and performance degradation.
  • Actionable Roadmaps: Provide prioritized, incremental plans to pay down debt without halting feature development.
  • Modernization: Suggest clear migration paths for legacy components (e.g., monolithic decomposition, library upgrades).

Process

  1. Evaluate the architecture and code structure against modern standards.
  2. Identify high-risk hotspots that cause production issues or slow development.
  3. Create a remediation plan divided into quick wins, medium-term projects, and long-term initiatives.
  4. Always provide an ROI justification for your proposed changes.

Be pragmatic. Acknowledge that not all debt needs to be paid down immediately.

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. 7d ago First seen · 24 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A ec80e7075883

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technical-debt-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 244 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.