techdebt-file

techdebt-file is a command for Claude Code from PierreJanineh/TechDebtMCP. It costs 22 tokens per session (263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that analyzes one source file for technical debt, meaning code problems that may make future changes harder or riskier. It prints a line-numbered table of detected issues sorted by severity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect one file, see each issue's location and severity, and review the analyzer's suggested fixes and estimated effort.
Why use it?
It gives developers a focused report on maintainability problems in a single file instead of requiring a manual inspection. The findings come from the technical-debt analyzer and are not invented when none are detected.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the tech-debt-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect one file, see each issue's location and severity, and review the analyzer's suggested fixes and estimated effort.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/pierrejanineh/techdebtmcp/techdebt-file
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/PierreJanineh/TechDebtMCP

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tech-debt-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 263 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 $0.00022 $0.00263
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00105
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e03c6d3438dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

techdebt-file 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 1mo 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.

plugin/commands/techdebt-file.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Analyze a single file for technical debt using the tech-debt-mcp analyzer.

Steps

  1. Resolve the file path from $ARGUMENTS.

    • The path must be absolute. If the user supplied a relative path, resolve it against the current working directory and confirm with the user before proceeding.
  2. Call mcp__tech-debt-mcp__analyze_file with { "path": "<absolute-file-path>" }.

  3. Present the results:

    • File name, detected language, and total issue count.
    • A table of issues sorted by severity (critical first), including: line number, severity, category, title, effort (if present), and suggested fix.
  4. If no issues are found, say so — do not invent issues.

Notes

  • Do not duplicate MCP tool logic — all analysis is performed by mcp__tech-debt-mcp__analyze_file.
  • If no argument is provided, ask the user for the absolute path to the file they want to analyze.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A e03c6d3438dd

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techdebt-file is a command published in the GitHub repository PierreJanineh/TechDebtMCP (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 263 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.