cgs-tech-debt

cgs-tech-debt is a skill for Claude Code from merlinhu1/codex-game-studio. It costs 44 tokens per session (572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding technical debt: code or systems that make future changes, maintenance, or releases riskier or slower.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess debt, estimate its risk and payoff, plan safe refactors, and define how to validate the changes.
Why use it?
It helps separate urgent production risks from issues that can be safely deferred, and breaks refactoring into manageable pieces.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to assess debt, estimate its risk and payoff, plan safe refactors, and define how to validate the changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/merlinhu1/codex-game-studio/cgs-tech-debt
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add merlinhu1/codex-game-studio --skill cgs-tech-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/merlinhu1/codex-game-studio

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 572 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 $0.00044 $0.00572
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00286
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 7d ago against content hash 74b71c53d835, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cgs-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.

.agents/skills/cgs-tech-debt/SKILL.md · 80 lines

What it actually says

Codex Game Studio Tech Debt

Use this skill for tech debt work in Template Game.

Objective

Identify technical debt, production risk, payoff, safe refactor slices, and validation needed.

Inputs

  • AGENTS.md
  • .codex/studio.json
  • task-relevant files named by the user or task record
  • production/timeline.md
  • docs/market-overview.md
  • tests/

Arguments

  • Objective or user request.
  • Target files, scenes, assets, or docs.
  • Constraints, deadlines, acceptance criteria, and verification command when known.

Procedure

  1. Clarify the requested identify technical debt, production risk, payoff, safe refactor slices, and validation needed. and identify the current project stage.
  2. Collect evidence for Debt Item, Risk, Payoff.
  3. Separate blockers from warnings and include rollback or deferral options.
  4. Produce the requested artifact or review with clear file paths and verification evidence.

Write Targets

  • production/
  • docs/

Output Contract

  • Summary
  • Debt Item
  • Risk
  • Payoff
  • Refactor Slice
  • Blocking issues
  • Changed files or proposed files
  • Verification evidence
  • Next owner or decision

Quality Gates

  • Debt Item
  • Risk
  • Payoff
  • Refactor Slice
  • Scope remains bounded to the current task and project stage.
  • Report labels unverified assumptions separately from evidence.

Decision Gates

  • Continue only when the expected output can be verified or clearly labeled as a plan.
  • Escalate to producer or qa-playtester when scope, ownership, or acceptance evidence is ambiguous.
  • Stop before broad rewrites, generated prompt mirrors, or hidden lifecycle behavior.

Handoff

Report changed files, verification evidence, remaining risks, and the next owner or decision. Do not imply hidden hooks or autonomous background work.

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. 7d ago First seen · 80 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 74b71c53d835

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cgs-tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository merlinhu1/codex-game-studio (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 572 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.