qa-tech-debt

qa-tech-debt is a skill for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,079 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding, measuring, and prioritizing technical debt: existing code problems that make future changes slower or riskier.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify code smells, assess their impact and effort, review test coverage, and plan incremental cleanup using a continuous-improvement cycle.
Why use it?
It turns scattered TODOs, duplication, large files, deep nesting, weak typing, and limited test coverage into a ranked improvement plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps identify code smells, assess their impact and effort, review test coverage, and plan incremental cleanup using a continuous-improvement cycle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/christopherlouet/claude-base/qa-tech-debt
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add christopherlouet/claude-base --skill qa-tech-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,079 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00056 $0.01079
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00540
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00108

Measured 6d ago against content hash fe548e171930, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-tech-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 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.

.claude/skills/qa-tech-debt/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt Management

Triggers

  • "technical debt"
  • "tech debt"
  • "refactoring priority"
  • "legacy code"
  • "code quality"

Identification

Code Smells to Detect

# TODOs and FIXMEs
grep -r "TODO\|FIXME\|HACK\|XXX" --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" src/

# Large files
find src -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.tsx" | xargs wc -l | sort -n | tail -20

# Complexity (nesting)
grep -r "if.*if.*if" --include="*.ts" src/

# any in TypeScript
grep -r ": any" --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" src/

Metrics

Metric Threshold Command
LOC/file < 500 wc -l
Functions/file < 15 grep
Nesting depth < 4 analysis
Test coverage > 70% npm test -- --coverage

Categorization

Impact

Level Description Examples
Critical Blocks development Circular coupling
High Significantly slows down Massive duplication
Medium Hinders maintenance Confusing naming
Low Cosmetic Inconsistent style

Effort

Level Time Examples
Trivial < 1h Rename variable
Low < 1 day Extract function
Medium 1-5 days Restructure module
High > 1 week Rewrite component

Prioritization

Impact/Effort Matrix

Impact
  ^
  |  Quick Wins  |  Strategic
  |     (P1)     |    (P2)
  +--------------+-------------
  |   Fill-in    |   Avoid
  |     (P3)     |    (P4)
  +-------------------------> Effort

Remediation Plan

Template

## Item: [Name]

**Priority**: P[1-4]
**Impact**: [Critical/High/Medium/Low]
**Effort**: [Trivial/Low/Medium/High]

### Description
[Description of the problem]

### Files concerned
- path/to/file.ts:L42

### Proposed solution
[Refactoring approach]

### Success criteria
- [ ] Tests pass
- [ ] No regression
- [ ] Improved metrics

Test coverage analysis

Test debt is a first-class category of technical debt. Measure and close the gaps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 6d ago First seen · 152 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A fe548e171930

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qa-tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,079 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 2026-09-03.