ai-setup: Command for Claude Code

.claude/commands/techdebt.md

techdebt is a command for Claude Code from cbmono/ai-setup. It costs 0 tokens per session (517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-wide cleanup command that looks for repeated code, unused code, and unnecessary layers across the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a work session to find duplicated functions, copied blocks, unused exports, needless wrappers, reimplemented utilities, and old commented-out code.
Why use it?
It helps prevent technical debt—the future cost of keeping confusing or redundant code— from building up. It also remembers previously deferred cleanup items so they are not repeatedly reported.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents.

This is cbmono/ai-setup's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ai-setup itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ai-setup configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cbmono/ai-setup. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cbmono/ai-setup/main/.claude/commands/techdebt.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbmono/ai-setup

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 517 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 $0.00000 $0.00517
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00207
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00052

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 5269720415c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

techdebt 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 2mo 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.

.claude/commands/techdebt.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Find and remove duplicated logic, dead code, and low-value abstractions across the whole repo (use the built-in /simplify skill instead if you only want to clean up the current diff). Run this at the end of a session to keep tech debt from accumulating.

Steps

  1. Load the backlog. Read .claude/techdebt.md if it exists — that's the curated list of known tech debt the user previously chose to defer. Use it to skip re-reporting items already on the backlog.
  2. Scan in parallel. Spawn subagents (or run Grep/Glob in parallel) across the main source tree, excluding node_modules, build output, generated code, and vendored deps. If $ARGUMENTS names a folder, scope the scan there.
  3. Look for:
    • Near-duplicate functions (same body, different names)
    • Copy-pasted blocks of 6+ lines across files
    • Dead exports: exported symbols with zero imports
    • Wrapper functions that only forward to one other function
    • Utility files reimplementing something already in lodash / remeda / node built-ins already present in package.json
    • Commented-out blocks older than a week (git blame to confirm)
  4. Report findings as a ranked list (highest confidence first), each with file paths, line numbers, and the suggested action. Mark items already in the backlog so the user sees them in context.
  5. Ask per finding: fix now, defer, or reject.
  6. Apply approved fixes directly. Keep edits surgical — match surrounding style, preserve public API shapes, don't introduce new dependencies. If a fix would change behaviour (not just structure), flag it and skip.
  7. Update the backlog at .claude/techdebt.md:
    • Append newly deferred findings.
    • Remove items that were fixed or rejected this session.
    • Dedupe: if a new finding matches an existing entry (same file + rough location + same category), keep the existing one, don't add a duplicate.
    • One line per item: - <category> — <file>:<line> — <one-line description>. No prose.
    • Create the file if it doesn't exist. Single top heading, nothing else — it's a rolling backlog, not a report.

The backlog holds accepted tech debt only. Don't log resolved items; don't let it grow indefinitely.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5269720415c7

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techdebt is a command published in the GitHub repository cbmono/ai-setup (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 517 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.