Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to gaia-react/gaia. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaia-react/gaia/main/.claude/skills/file-tech-debt/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gaia-react/gaiaWrote 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/gaia-react/gaia/file-tech-debt)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gaia-react/gaia/file-tech-debt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gaia-react/gaia/file-tech-debt/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/gaia-react/gaia/file-tech-debt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gaia-react/gaia/file-tech-debt.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 9 findings, up to high
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 →
- high Prompt Injection · line 17 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 69 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Tool Misuse · line 101 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- high Prompt Injection · line 220 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 277 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 348 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- high Prompt Injection · line 398 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 400 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 402 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 | $0.00127 | $0.06924 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00051 | $0.02770 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00025 | $0.01385 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00692 |
Grade A, and why
file-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 7d 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 — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
File a tech-debt issue
This skill is the single source of truth for turning one out-of-scope finding (a real problem spotted while reviewing something else, and therefore not fixed in place) into a durable, deduplicated GitHub issue. It covers building the key, checking for a prior match, filing when there is none, and nudging the debt-count display to refresh. It does not decide which findings are out-of-scope, does not fix anything, and takes the caller's word on whether a finding is security-sensitive (section 0), it only files.
Callers own their own bookkeeping around this recipe. Some callers record their own disposition-ledger entry and gate their own downstream state on it after filing succeeds; others file and stop. That bookkeeping is caller-specific and lives in the caller, not here. Follow the steps below exactly as written; do not invent a bookkeeping record, a completion flag, or a run-tracking step of your own on top of them, that would duplicate (or fight with) whatever the caller already does.
Contents: 0. Run the filing script; 1. Build the dedup key; 2. Check for an existing match (dedup); 3. Idempotency: skip if a match exists; 4. Otherwise, file the issue; 5. Issue body schema; 6. Labels; 7. Difficulty grade; 8. Touch the debt-count staleness sentinel.
0. Run the filing script
Every caller files through the script and never runs gh issue create itself:
bash .gaia/scripts/file-tech-debt.sh file --finding <finding.json> --outcome-file <outcome.jsonl> [--repo <owner/name>] [--disposition file|divert]
GAIA maintainers: before filing a finding on a harness path, Read .claude/maintainers/harness-triage-threshold.md; one it waives is never filed, only listed under ## Waived below triage threshold (not filed) in the PR body.
Execute it; do not read it for the mechanics. Its header owns the outcome line, the stdout words, the exit codes, the screened fields (security, severity, finding_class) and the label fields (the difficulty grade rides in grade, never difficulty); the file branch also requires non-empty member, path, line, title, failure_mode and suggested_fix. Steps 1 to 8 below are the reference the script implements, for a caller that needs to understand a filing or a label rather than reproduce one.
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.
- 7d ago Changed · +1 lines 407548c5c1a2
- 8d ago Changed 98d1d5c29174
- 10d ago Changed · +4 lines · -31 tokens per session 731760740ab7
- 12d ago Changed f006b733ee99
- 13d ago Changed d7c41cb1fb74
- 14d ago Changed 94a115bac71f
- 15d ago Changed · +1 lines 15ad6ae24a7f
- 16d ago Changed 8e16a788f42a
- 20d ago Changed · +17 lines 5f3ac26008ad
- 21d ago First seen · 256 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 30e440637030
file-tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository gaia-react/gaia (26 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 6,924 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.
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