debt

A read-only audit command for finding deliberate routing shortcuts marked with dD: in the code. These markers record decisions to use a simpler workflow when a more involved one might have been possible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list markers by file, inspect their upgrade triggers, and review accumulated workflow debt without editing the repository.
Why use it?
It keeps deferred process improvements visible and identifies shortcuts that lack a stated condition for reconsideration.

Command

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/vrennat/developersdevelopers/debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vrennat/developersDevelopers
Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00054 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured yesterday against content hash e5293640b2e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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.

commands/debt.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/debt

Surface the deliberate routing shortcuts the workflow has taken. A // dD: marker (# dD: for Python/shell) records a borderline classification call /impl made on purpose — routing simple where medium was plausible, treating stakes as normal where high was arguable, skipping a review pass on a borderline change. Each marker should name an upgrade trigger: the condition under which the shortcut stops being safe. /debt collects them so the debt stays visible instead of silently compounding.

Procedure

  1. Search the repo for markers (ripgrep preferred; fall back to grep):

    rg -n -- 'dD:' .        # or: grep -rn 'dD:' .
    

    Match both // dD: and # dD: forms.

  2. Drop matches that document the convention rather than incur debt: this plugin's own files (commands/, skills/, agents/, hooks/, README.md, and spec/plan docs that explain dD:). A real marker sits next to source code it is justifying.

  3. For each surviving match, extract: file path, line number, and the marker text after dD:.

  4. Classify each marker. It has an upgrade trigger if its text names a revisit condition — a clause using words like if, when, once, until, escalate, upgrade, beyond, grows, past, exceeds, or over. If none is present, tag it [no-trigger].

  5. Print a ledger grouped by file (file order, lines ascending):

    <file>
      L<line> — <marker text>
      L<line> — <marker text>  [no-trigger]
    
  6. End with exactly one summary line:

    <N> markers, <M> with no trigger.
    

Rules

  • Read-only. /debt reports; it never edits code or removes markers.
  • If zero markers survive step 2, print No dD: markers found. and stop — no summary line.
  • Do not invent triggers. A decision with no written revisit condition is [no-trigger] by design; that gap is the signal worth surfacing.

Example

src/hand/sort.ts
  L42 — routed simple, escalate if sorting logic grows beyond this file
  L88 — skipped adversarial pass, borderline stakes  [no-trigger]

2 markers, 1 with no trigger.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 55 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A e5293640b2e7

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debt is a command published in the GitHub repository vrennat/developersDevelopers (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.