baton-debt

baton-debt is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kakadeka/Baton. It costs 69 tokens per session (475 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only scan for BATON-DEBT markers, which are notes recording technical debt and the measurable condition for revisiting it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find these markers across a codebase, report their task, limits, revisit conditions, and upgrade paths, and optionally record them in Baton's existing memory files.
Why use it?
It turns scattered technical-debt notes into a structured list and flags notes that lack a measurable trigger.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find these markers across a codebase, report their task, limits, revisit conditions, and upgrade paths, and optionally record them in Baton's existing memory files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kakadeka/baton/baton-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 kakadeka/Baton --skill baton-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kakadeka/Baton

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 475 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.
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 $0.00069 $0.00475
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash cd4c8784e61c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

baton-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 9d 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.

skills/baton-debt/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

baton-debt(技术债扫描,只读)

标记格式(代码内写入时的强制格式)

BATON-DEBT: task=<id>; ceiling=<上限>; revisit_when=<可测触发器>; upgrade=<升级路径>
  • task:关联任务 ID(无则 none)。
  • ceiling:已知上限(如「目录 ≤ 500 文件」「单文件 ≤ 3MB」)。
  • revisit_when可测触发器(如「E2E 用例超过 60」「文件超过 3MB」);禁止「以后有空」「未来可能」。
  • upgrade:升级路径(改什么、为什么现在不做)。

扫描与输出

  1. 搜索代码库全部 BATON-DEBT: 标记。
  2. 每条提取 task/ceiling/revisit_when/upgrade/位置,输出:
文件:行号 | task | ceiling | revisit_when | upgrade | 状态(no-trigger=缺可测触发器)
  1. 无触发器的标记标 no-trigger 并要求补正。
  2. git blame 只作线索,不自动认定责任人。

持久化(需要落库时)

  • 进入 Baton 现有 tasks/task_todo.md(新增债务条目)或追加到 knowledge/pit_experience.md 并同步索引;
  • 自动维护 state/archive_index.json 索引——不另建第二套项目真相

边界

  • 只读扫描;修改代码必须先过任务 Contract 与用户确认。
  • 债务标记是显式声明,不是放纵理由:标记的 ceiling 到达 revisit_when 时按 upgrade 路径执行。
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. 9d ago First seen · 40 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A cd4c8784e61c

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baton-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository kakadeka/Baton (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 475 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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