elixir-phoenix-techdebt

elixir-phoenix-techdebt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ccarvalho-eng/codex-elixir-phoenix. It costs 23 tokens per session (539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review guide for finding technical debt in Elixir and Phoenix applications. It looks for duplicated code, design problems, and places where refactoring may help.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Credo results, search for repeated database queries and validation rules, and identify refactoring targets in a Phoenix project.
Why use it?
It helps reveal repeated or overly complex code before you change it, while checking that tests cover the affected behavior. This reduces the risk of making a cleanup that changes how the application works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ccarvalho-eng/codex-elixir-phoenix/elixir-phoenix-techdebt
Any agent
npx skills add ccarvalho-eng/codex-elixir-phoenix --skill elixir-phoenix-techdebt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccarvalho-eng/codex-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 539 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 $0.00023 $0.00539
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6840bba82b33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

elixir-phoenix-techdebt 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.

skills/elixir-phoenix-techdebt/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Debt Detection

Find and eliminate duplicate code patterns, anti-patterns, and refactoring opportunities in Elixir/Phoenix projects.

Iron Laws - Never Violate These

  1. Search before refactoring - Understand full scope of duplication before extracting
  2. Three strikes rule - Extract shared code only after 3+ duplications
  3. Prefer composition - Use behaviours and protocols over inheritance-style abstractions
  4. Test coverage first - Ensure tests exist before refactoring duplicated code

Analysis Checklist

1. Run Credo for Automated Detection

Run mix credo --strict.

Focus on:

  • Design issues (duplication, complexity)
  • Consistency issues (naming, patterns)
  • Refactoring opportunities

2. Find Duplicate Ecto Query Patterns

Use rg to search for repeated Repo calls (Repo.get!, Repo.get, Repo.one) in lib/**/*.ex. Use rg to find duplicate query patterns (from.*in.*where) in lib/**/*.ex.

3. Find Duplicate Validation Logic

Use rg with output_mode: "count" to count def changeset occurrences in lib/**/*.ex. Use rg to find repeated validations (validate_required, validate_format) in lib/**/*.ex.

4. Find Copy-Pasted Controller Actions

Use rg to find similar action patterns (def create, def update, def delete) in lib/*_web/**/*.ex.

Common Duplication Patterns

Pattern Symptom Solution
Repeated queries Same Repo.get in multiple contexts Create shared query module
Duplicate validations Same validate_* calls Extract to shared changeset
Similar controllers Copy-pasted CRUD actions Use Phoenix generators consistently
Repeated transforms Same Enum.map patterns Extract to domain module

Reporting Format

For each duplication found, report:

  1. Location: File paths and line numbers
  2. Pattern: What code is duplicated
  3. Extraction: Suggested shared function/module
  4. Effort: Low/Medium/High to fix

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

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.

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 · 66 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 6840bba82b33

Subscribe to this mod's changes

elixir-phoenix-techdebt is a skill published in the GitHub repository ccarvalho-eng/codex-elixir-phoenix (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 539 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 2026-08-30.

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