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.
npx skills add bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt --skill debt-ops-addgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debtWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt/debt-ops-add)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt/debt-ops-add"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt/debt-ops-add/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt/debt-ops-add"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt/debt-ops-add.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00115 | $0.00960 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00046 | $0.00384 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00023 | $0.00192 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
debt-ops-add 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
debt-ops-add — register a tech-debt entry
Call the bundled register.py via your shell tool. It lives in this skill's
scripts/ directory — reference it with the relative path below (your agent
resolves it against the skill root). The helper writes the entry under the repo's
detected registry dir (default docs/debt/), assigns a short batch letter
(A, B, C…), and prints exactly one line: +1 entry: <slug> (<letter>). That
stdout IS the user-facing announcement — add no commentary before or after.
The call
python3 scripts/register.py \
--slug <slug> \
--principal <effort, e.g. 2d, 1w, unknown> \
--interest <ongoing cost, e.g. "+30min/incident", unknown> \
--hotspot <path or module, e.g. pricing/engine.ts, unknown> \
--business-capability <e.g. checkout, billing, unknown> \
--payoff-trigger <concrete trigger, or "unknown"> \
--quadrant <reckless-inadvertent|reckless-deliberate|prudent-inadvertent|prudent-deliberate> \
--category <migration|documentation|testing|code_quality|dead_code|code_rot|expertise|release|infrastructure|planning> \
--ai-authored <true|false> <<'EOF'
<body: 2-5 sentences — what the debt is, why it exists, observed symptoms>
EOF
The helper:
- Generates the timestamp
iditself (nodatecall needed). - Resolves filename collisions when two registrations land in the same second.
- Tracks the letter mapping in
~/.cache/debt-ops/cache/<repo-hash>/current-turn.txt(override the base withDEBT_OPS_CACHE) so the user can drop by letter.
Slug
1–4 word kebab-case label of what the debt is. Examples:
cancelled-promotion-callback, legacy-auth-shim, unfinished-rate-limiter.
Keep it short — the body carries the context.
Schema notes
- Quadrant (Fowler):
reckless-inadvertent(didn't know better),reckless-deliberate(knew, did it anyway),prudent-inadvertent(learned afterward),prudent-deliberate(deliberate, with a payoff plan). - Category (Google / Jaspan-Green): pick the closest match.
- payoff_trigger: unknown is first-class. Don't manufacture a trigger to fill
the field —
unknownages into stale review and that's the point. - ai_authored: true is the leading behavioral signal — be honest.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A dc0b418c428c
debt-ops-add is a skill published in the GitHub repository bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 960 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.
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