tech-debt-tracker

A registry-based method for recording and managing technical debt: shortcuts or unresolved design and maintenance problems that make future changes harder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Logging architecture, code, test, documentation, and dependency debt; estimating severity and effort; and planning cleanup backlogs or debt-focused work.
Why use it?
It stops these problems from remaining hidden and growing without an owner, severity, effort estimate, or priority.

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/firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge/tech-debt-tracker
Any agent
npx skills add Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge --skill tech-debt-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,387 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 $0.00052 $0.01387
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00139

Measured 3d ago against content hash c35a8439dee5, 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-tracker 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 3d 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.

pi-skill-tech-debt-tracker/skills/tech-debt-tracker/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt Tracker

Systematic tracking and management of technical debt. Debt is not inherently bad — it's a trade-off. The problem is untracked debt that compounds silently.

Quick Start

Log a New Debt Item

When debt is identified (during reviews, development, or ad-hoc):

  1. Categorize: What type of debt is it?
  2. Severity: How much pain does it cause?
  3. Effort: How much work to fix?
  4. Priority: Severity vs effort — is it worth fixing now?
  5. Log: Add to the registry in MEMORY.md

Debt Categories

Category Description Examples
Architecture Structural issues that affect the whole system Missing module boundaries, circular dependencies, wrong abstraction level
Code Local code quality issues Code smells, duplicated logic, overly complex functions, dead code
Test Missing or inadequate test coverage No tests for critical paths, brittle tests, missing edge case coverage
Documentation Missing or outdated documentation Undocumented public APIs, stale README, missing architecture docs
Dependency Outdated or problematic dependencies Deprecated libraries, unpatched CVEs, abandoned packages, version conflicts

Severity Levels

Severity Meaning Impact
Critical Blocks progress or causes recurring incidents Developers work around it daily, causes bugs
High Causes ongoing friction and slows development Every feature touching this area takes longer
Medium Noticeable but manageable Annoyance, not a blocker. Occasional confusion.
Low Cosmetic or minor Cleanup opportunity, no functional impact

Effort Estimates

Effort Time Scope
S < 1 hour Single function or file change
M 1-4 hours Multiple files, focused refactoring
L 4-16 hours Cross-module changes, possible API updates
XL > 16 hours Major restructuring, migration, or rewrite

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 3d ago First seen · 161 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A c35a8439dee5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-debt-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository Firstp1ck/pi-coding-agent-forge (74 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,387 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 2026-08-30.