debt-review

debt-review is a command for Claude Code from tacoda/keystone. It costs 8 tokens per session (412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing a code-debt ledger, which is a list of known maintenance problems in a codebase. It checks the ledger against the current code and classifies, re-scores, or proposes removing outdated entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during regular maintenance or before a large refactor to find debt hotspots, propose ownership and severity, and prepare ledger updates for approval.
Why use it?
It helps teams distinguish deliberate compromises from accidental drift and old shortcuts, while avoiding silent changes to the debt record.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

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/tacoda/keystone/debt-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 412 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 5.1 $0.00008 $0.00412
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00206
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00041

Measured 6d ago against content hash 786937124828, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debt-review 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.charter/commands/debt-review.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

debt-review

Triage the code-debt ledger. Read .charter/sensors/code-debt.md and .charter/corpus/state/code-debt.md.

For charter debt (stale rules, placeholder bootstrap, empty idiom dirs, uncited policies), use the audit action — its Pruning flywheel writes to corpus/state/charter-debt.md.

Activities

  1. Run the code-debt sensor. Walk the codebase for markers and complexity hotspots; produce the candidate list.
  2. Triage discovery items. For each, propose: a category (deliberate / drift / shortcut), a severity, an owner, and a revisit trigger. If you can't propose all four, leave the item as discovery with a note explaining why.
  3. Re-score existing items. Compare ledger entries against the code. Items whose region is no longer present, or whose severity has dropped to nothing the diff or plan would notice, become stale.
  4. Prune stale items. Delete them from the ledger. Do not archive.
  5. Propose the diff to corpus/state/code-debt.md and let the user accept or edit. No silent writes.

When to invoke

  • Periodically (suggested: monthly or per audit pass).
  • Before any large refactor of a region with multiple ledger entries — to make sure the plan accounts for them.
  • When the ledger has accumulated more than ~10 discovery items.

Output

One report:

  • Items triaged (with proposed category/severity/owner/trigger).
  • Items pruned as stale.
  • Items re-scored.
  • Open questions where triage stalled.
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. 6d ago First seen · 34 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 786937124828

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debt-review is a command published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 412 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.