tech-debt

A technical-debt review that finds, organizes, and ranks codebase problems across seven areas, then outlines ways to fix them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan for technical debt, prioritize issues, identify high-impact areas, and create remediation plans with effort estimates.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide which accumulated code problems matter most and what remediation work should come first.

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/drafthq/draft/tech-debt
Any agent
npx skills add drafthq/draft --skill tech-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drafthq/draft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,989 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 $0.00034 $0.03989
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01995
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00798
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00399

Measured 2d ago against content hash be4ca98f1135, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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/tech-debt/SKILL.md · 339 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 339 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt

You are conducting a technical debt analysis to catalog, prioritize, and plan remediation of debt across the codebase.

MANDATORY GRAPH LOOKUP (read before debt scan)

First resolve the bundled helpers:

# Locate Draft's bundled helpers (cwd is the user's project; ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}
# is not exported into skill Bash). See core/shared/tool-resolver.md.
DRAFT_TOOLS="${DRAFT_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cat ~/.cache/draft/plugin-root 2>/dev/null)}/scripts/tools"
[ -d "$DRAFT_TOOLS" ] || DRAFT_TOOLS="$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/draft/*/scripts/tools 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)"
[ -d "$DRAFT_TOOLS" ] || DRAFT_TOOLS="$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/*draft*/scripts/tools 2>/dev/null | tail -1)"
[ -d "$DRAFT_TOOLS" ] || DRAFT_TOOLS="$PWD/scripts/tools"

When draft/graph/schema.yaml exists, this skill must follow the graph-first lookup contract in core/shared/graph-query.md §Mandatory Lookup Contract. Tech-debt prioritization is fundamentally driven by graph data:

  1. Run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/hotspot-rank.sh" --repo .rank candidates by fanIn × complexity to surface high-leverage debt first.
  2. Query "$DRAFT_TOOLS/graph-arch.sh" --repo . and run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/cycle-detect.sh" --repo . — flag debt in modules involved in cycles as higher priority.
  3. Run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/cycle-detect.sh" --repo . to enumerate dependency cycles — every cycle is a candidate architecture-debt entry.
  4. For each catalogued finding, run "$DRAFT_TOOLS/graph-impact.sh" --repo . --file <path> so the remediation plan includes blast-radius.

Filesystem grep (e.g. scan-markers.sh) is still primary for TODO/FIXME marker discovery — markers are source-text, not graph-derived. The graph governs prioritization, the marker scan governs discovery.

Red Flags — STOP if you're

See shared red flags — applies to all code-touching skills.

Skill-specific:

  • Flagging intentional design choices as debt (check tech-stack.md accepted patterns first)
  • Cataloging debt without understanding the business context
  • Setting priorities without considering team capacity
  • Recommending "rewrite from scratch" without exhausting incremental options
  • Ignoring the existing guardrails.md conventions

Read the full file on GitHub · 339 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. 2d ago First seen · 339 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A be4ca98f1135

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository drafthq/draft (40 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 3,989 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.