tech-debt

tech-debt is a skill for Claude Code from grailautomation/claude-plugins. It costs 52 tokens per session (336 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for reviewing technical debt: the maintenance work and design compromises that make future code changes slower or riskier. It groups and ranks that work so teams can decide what to address first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing code health, identifying technical debt, classifying it, choosing refactoring priorities, and planning maintenance work.
Why use it?
It turns a scattered list of refactoring concerns into a prioritized maintenance backlog.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the engineering plugin — 12 skills shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for tech-debt

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/grailautomation/claude-plugins/tech-debt.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/grailautomation/claude-plugins/tech-debt)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/grailautomation/claude-plugins/tech-debt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/grailautomation/claude-plugins/tech-debt.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00052 $0.00336
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 5d ago against content hash ed3b4b1450c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 5d 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.

engineering/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md · 33 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 33 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A ed3b4b1450c0

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tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository grailautomation/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 336 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 2026-08-31.

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