tech-debt

tech-debt is a skill for Claude Code from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding, recording, grouping, and prioritizing technical debt in a codebase. Technical debt is work postponed through shortcuts, outdated code, missing tests, or weak documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan for debt, add entries, reprioritize the register, or generate a status report.
Why use it?
Untracked debt makes maintenance problems harder to see and schedule. This creates a shared record of issues such as TODOs, duplication, complexity, deprecated code, and dependency problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to scan for debt, add entries, reprioritize the register, or generate a status report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donchitos/claude-code-game-studios/tech-debt
About the project

Claude Code Game Studios is a setup that organizes Claude Code into a coordinated game-development team of specialized AI agents. It supports game projects across design, programming, art, audio, narrative, quality assurance, and production, with skills and workflows for coordinating that work.

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios · 26,985 stars · on GitHub

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 Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill tech-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,528 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 7
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00025 $0.02528
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.01011
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00253

Measured yesterday against content hash 11299c8a1702, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • tech-debt — 91% identical, 128 lines differ
  • tech-debt — 88% identical, 137 lines differ
.claude/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

!bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys automation,workflow

Tech Debt

Every AskUserQuestion call follows .claude/docs/automation-modes.md (collaborative asks always · guided major-only · autonomous logs and proceeds; automation_always_ask categories always prompt).

Phase 1: Parse Subcommand

Determine the mode from the argument:

  • scan — Scan the codebase for tech debt indicators
  • add — Add a new tech debt entry manually
  • prioritize — Re-prioritize the existing debt register
  • report — Generate a summary report of current debt status

If no subcommand is provided, output usage and stop. Verdict: FAIL — missing required subcommand.


Phase 2A: Scan Mode

Search the code root (resolve per .claude/docs/code-root-resolution.md: src/, Assets/ or Source/ by engine) for debt indicators:

  • TODO comments (count and categorize)
  • FIXME comments (these are bugs disguised as debt)
  • HACK comments (workarounds that need proper solutions)
  • @deprecated markers
  • Duplicated code blocks (similar patterns in multiple files)
  • Files over 500 lines (potential god objects)
  • Functions over 50 lines (potential complexity)

Categorize each finding:

  • Architecture Debt: Wrong abstractions, missing patterns, coupling issues
  • Code Quality Debt: Duplication, complexity, naming, missing types
  • Test Debt: Missing tests, flaky tests, untested edge cases
  • Documentation Debt: Missing docs, outdated docs, undocumented APIs
  • Dependency Debt: Outdated packages, deprecated APIs, version conflicts
  • Performance Debt: Known slow paths, unoptimized queries, memory issues

Before presenting anything, establish that there was something to scan. Count the source files the scan actually covered. If the code root is unresolved, report NOT ASSESSED — code root unresolved and stop as below. If that count is zero — the code root is absent, or holds no source files — report:

NOT ASSESSED — no source files to scan. The code root contains no code, so "no debt indicators found" would be a statement about an empty search, not about the codebase. Run this once implementation is under way.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. yesterday Changed · +6 lines 11299c8a1702
  2. 12d ago Changed · +2 lines bec31edccac3
  3. 21d ago Changed · +46 lines db5118f6924d
  4. 26d ago Changed 9fbeddba114a
  5. 27d ago Changed · +24 lines · -8 tokens per session 2430c6203151
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 141 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A bebf9faf308e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (26,985 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,528 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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