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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill technical-debt-registergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skillsWrote 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/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/technical-debt-register)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/technical-debt-register"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/technical-debt-register/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/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/technical-debt-register"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/technical-debt-register.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00089 | $0.03136 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.01254 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00627 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00314 |
Grade A, and why
technical-debt-register 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 — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Technical Debt Register Skill
Produce a complete technical debt register for a team or service. A debt register is not a complaint list — it is a prioritized, business-impact-aware inventory that lets an engineering team make deliberate choices about which debt to pay down, in what order, and with what expected return.
Good debt management is not eliminating all debt. It is ensuring debt is visible, owned, and resolved when the interest cost exceeds the cost of fixing it.
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not already provided:
- Team or service name — what team and/or service this register covers
- Known debt items — list of known technical debt, or ask Claude to elicit them by asking about: legacy code, missing tests, outdated dependencies, architectural shortcuts, manual processes, observability gaps, security backlogs
- Tech stack — language, frameworks, infrastructure (helps Claude categorise and score items correctly)
- Team size and velocity — number of engineers and approximate story points or days per sprint (needed for effort estimates)
- Current quarter / planning period — so the roadmap targets the right timeframe
Output Format
Technical Debt Register: [Team / Service Name]
Team: [Name] | Service(s): [Name(s)] Author: [Name] | Last updated: [Date] Planning period: [Q[X] [Year]] | Review cadence: [Monthly / Quarterly]
Overview
[2–3 sentences describing the team's current debt situation, the main categories of debt, and the business context — e.g. are they in a growth phase where velocity matters, or approaching a compliance deadline where security debt is critical?]
Total items in register: [X] Unresolved items: [X] Critical/High priority items: [X] Estimated total resolution effort: [X story points / X engineer-weeks]
Debt Category Definitions
| Category | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Code quality | Code that works but is hard to change safely | Duplicated logic, deeply nested conditionals, inconsistent error handling, missing abstraction |
| Architecture | Structural decisions that limit scalability or increase coupling | Monolith that should be decomposed, sync calls that should be async, missing domain boundaries |
| Testing | Gaps in test coverage that increase regression risk | Missing unit tests, no integration tests, flaky test suite, no test data management |
| Security | Known vulnerabilities or missing security controls | Outdated dependencies with CVEs, missing rate limiting, hard-coded secrets, insufficient auth |
| Dependencies | Outdated or risky external dependencies | End-of-life libraries, major version lag, abandoned packages |
| Infrastructure | Infrastructure that limits reliability or developer productivity | Manual deployment steps, no IaC, single-AZ, missing autoscaling |
| Observability | Gaps in visibility that slow incident response | Missing metrics, no distributed tracing, poor log structure, no alerting on key SLIs |
| Process | Manual or error-prone operational processes | Manual DB migrations, no runbooks, tribal knowledge not documented |
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 · 269 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 6718b0e41da5
technical-debt-register is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (55 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 3,136 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.
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