matcha:debt

matcha:debt is a command for Codex from plumpslabs/matcha. It costs 19 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that collects special `matcha:` comments from code into a technical-debt report. Technical debt means shortcuts or known problems that may need fixing later.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for scanning a codebase, grouping markers by severity, and highlighting debt that should be resolved before release.
Why use it?
It makes documented shortcuts, future tasks, unresolved debt, and architecture decisions easier to find and track.

Command for Codex

Part of the matcha plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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 commands/plumpslabs/matcha/matcha-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plumpslabs/matcha

Made for: Codex.

Or install matcha, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for matcha:debt

README.md
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 429 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 $0.00019 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 4d ago against content hash fa400f43918b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matcha: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 4d 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.

.agents/commands/matcha:debt.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

/matcha:debt

Technical debt & marker ledger. Harvest all // matcha: markers into an actionable report.

Marker Severity Levels

Marker Level Action
// matcha:explain [reason] LOW Logged justification — documented shortcut
// matcha:todo [task] MEDIUM Future task — schedule or track
// matcha:debt [reason], [fix when] HIGH Technical debt — must resolve before release
// matcha:adr [ADR-NUMBER] INFO Architecture Decision Record reference

Process

  1. Scan codebase for // matcha: comments across all files using grep.
  2. Extract: file:line, severity level, message.
  3. Group items by severity level and compute debt ratio (HIGH / TOTAL).
  4. Highlight HIGH items requiring immediate resolution.

Report Format

🍵 matcha: debt & markers

Total markers: N
  explain: N (LOW) — documented shortcuts
  todo:    N (MEDIUM) — future tasks
  debt:    N (HIGH) ← action required
  adr:     N (INFO) — architecture decisions

Debt ratio: HIGH / TOTAL = X%

🔴 HIGH items (resolve before merge):
  file:line — [reason] → [fix when]

🟡 MEDIUM items (track for next sprint):
  file:line — [task]

Health: ✅ CLEAN | ⚠️ DEBT ACCUMULATING | 🔴 CRITICAL DEBT

## Debt Budget

| Ratio | Status |
|-------|--------|
| HIGH/TOTAL < 10% | ✅ Healthy |
| HIGH/TOTAL 10-30% | ⚠️ Needs attention |
| HIGH/TOTAL > 30% | 🔴 Critical — prioritize debt reduction |
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. 4d ago First seen · 55 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A fa400f43918b

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matcha:debt is a command published in the GitHub repository plumpslabs/matcha (1 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.