technical-debt-analyzer

technical-debt-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE. It costs 83 tokens per session (6,442 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A codebase review method that finds technical debt, meaning design and maintenance problems that make future changes harder or riskier.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit project health, find maintenance hotspots, plan refactoring, and prioritize quality improvements.
Why use it?
It identifies issues such as duplicated code, excessive complexity, tight coupling, dead code, and architectural inconsistencies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to audit project health, find maintenance hotspots, plan refactoring, and prioritize quality improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arabelatso/skills-4-se/technical-debt-analyzer
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE --skill technical-debt-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,442 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00083 $0.06442
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.03221
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01288
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00644

Measured 8d ago against content hash af3b8b54f5bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-debt-analyzer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const response = await axios.get('https://api.example.com');
skills/technical-debt-analyzer/SKILL.md · 1,048 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,048 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Debt Analyzer

Systematically identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt across codebases. Provides actionable insights into code quality, architectural issues, and maintenance risks.

Core Capabilities

1. Code Quality Analysis

Identify code-level technical debt:

  • Code smells - Long methods, large classes, duplicated code
  • Complexity metrics - Cyclomatic complexity, nesting depth
  • Naming issues - Poor variable/function names, inconsistent conventions
  • Dead code - Unused functions, unreachable code, commented code
  • Magic numbers - Hard-coded values without explanation
  • Anti-patterns - Common design mistakes and bad practices

2. Architectural Debt

Detect structural and design issues:

  • Tight coupling - Excessive dependencies between modules
  • Missing abstractions - Duplicated logic that should be extracted
  • Layer violations - Breaking architectural boundaries
  • God objects - Classes/modules with too many responsibilities
  • Circular dependencies - Modules depending on each other
  • Inconsistent patterns - Mixed architectural styles

3. Maintenance Risk Assessment

Identify high-maintenance areas:

  • Change frequency - Files modified frequently (hotspots)
  • Bug density - Areas with recurring bugs
  • Test coverage gaps - Critical code without tests
  • Complexity + change - Complex code that changes often (highest risk)
  • Knowledge concentration - Code only one person understands
  • Outdated dependencies - Old libraries with security issues

4. Documentation Debt

Find documentation gaps:

  • Missing documentation - Undocumented public APIs
  • Outdated comments - Comments contradicting code
  • Poor commit messages - Unclear change history
  • Incomplete README - Setup/usage not documented
  • Missing architecture docs - No design documentation

5. Test Debt

Assess test quality issues:

  • Low coverage - Critical paths untested
  • Flaky tests - Tests that fail intermittently
  • Slow tests - Tests that slow down CI/CD
  • Test duplication - Redundant test logic
  • Missing test types - No integration/E2E tests
  • Brittle tests - Tests that break with minor changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,048 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. 8d ago First seen · 1,048 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A af3b8b54f5bc

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technical-debt-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE (252 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 6,442 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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