review-debt

review-debt is a skill for Claude Code from gtrabanco/agentic-workflow. It costs 68 tokens per session (752 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal review step that turns already-identified technical-debt findings into explicit work items. Technical debt means shortcuts or design problems that may need to be addressed later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on a synthesized review findings table to record issues such as duplication, dead code, missing tests, complexity, or temporary workarounds, along with their trigger conditions.
Why use it?
It makes deferred engineering work visible and gives each item a condition that says when it must be handled. It does not search the code again or edit anything.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the agentic-workflow plugin — 38 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it on a synthesized review findings table to record issues such as duplication, dead code, missing tests, complexity, or temporary workarounds, along with their trigger conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gtrabanco/agentic-workflow/review-debt
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.

Any agent
npx skills add gtrabanco/agentic-workflow --skill review-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gtrabanco/agentic-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 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.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 752 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00068 $0.00752
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00376
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00075

Measured 8d ago against content hash d17213578fef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-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 8d 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.

packages/pi-agentic-workflow/skills/review-debt/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Tech Debt (internal)

Composed by review-change / product-audit within their conversation — on any agent, follow this file inline as the routed step. Findings only; never edits, never refactors.

Scope

The caller's synthesized findings table (the fused, classified decision table). This pass does not rescan the diff: debt-shaped findings are already in the table, and every ownership decision already happened in the finder axes (review-code, review-verify, …). State the scope — the change the table was synthesized over — at the top of the returned table.

Transform (evaluate EVERY row — none is optional; n/a must be stated)

Turn the table's tech-debt-shaped rows (TODO/FIXME/HACK, duplication, stale or orphaned abstractions, dead code, complexity hotspots, missing tests, workarounds pinned to upstream fixes) into explicit, payable debt items:

✓ Restate each debt-shaped finding at file:line with what it defers ✓ Attribute it to the axis already recorded in the table — never re-litigate ownership ✓ Confirm every debt item carries a TRIGGER: the condition under which it must be paid (e.g. "3rd consumer appears", ">100k rows") — a debt item without a trigger is itself a finding ✓ Verify no current-unit debt was mislabeled non-blocking: current-unit work cannot be postpone/tradeoff/wontfix — a table showing one is flagged back to the classifier, never reclassified here ✓ Honor the dead-code exception: staged/planned code cross-checked against the roadmap/SPEC/TASKS is not dead code — mark verify when unsure, never assert

Return exactly

REVIEW TECH DEBT — scope: <scope>

| # | Finding | Sev | Evidence | Suggested fix |
|---|---------|-----|----------|---------------|
| 1 | <what>  | critical|major|minor | <file:line> | <trigger + smallest action> |

Rows: <n> transformed, <n> with trigger, <n> findings, <n> n/a (<which + why>)
Summary: <1-2 sentences>
Decision: PASS | FAIL

For this pass, the Suggested fix column carries the TRIGGER — the condition under which the debt must be paid — alongside the smallest action.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 8d ago First seen · 73 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A d17213578fef

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review-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository gtrabanco/agentic-workflow (21 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 752 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.

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