lean-debt

A read-only scanner for intentional simplification markers in a code repository. These markers record code that has a known limit and should be revisited when a stated condition occurs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding every `cb-simplify` comment, listing its file, line, limit, and revisit condition, and counting markers that have no condition.
Why use it?
It gives the team a small, consistent report of postponed cleanup without changing files or scanning generated and dependency folders.

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/ezbuilder/code-brain/lean-debt
Any agent
npx skills add ezBuilder/code-brain --skill lean-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ezBuilder/code-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 194 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 $0.00028 $0.00194
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00097
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured 2d ago against content hash aeec6e8a97d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lean-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.

kits/global-agent-kit/.claude/skills/lean-debt/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

cb-simplify: 마커는 알려진 한계가 있는 단순화를 의도적으로 남길 때만 쓴다.

규칙:

# cb-simplify: <ceiling>; revisit when <trigger>

스캔:

  • repo에서 cb-simplify: comment marker를 찾는다.
  • .git, .ai/cache, build output, dependency directory는 제외한다.
  • 읽기 전용으로 보고만 한다.

보고 형식:

<file>:<line> - <ceiling>. revisit when <trigger>.

trigger가 없으면 no-trigger를 붙인다. 끝에 <N> markers, <M> no-trigger.를 적는다. 없으면 No cb-simplify debt.만 적는다.

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 · 23 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A aeec6e8a97d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lean-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository ezBuilder/code-brain (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 194 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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