tech-debt-tracker

tech-debt-tracker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from miptah21/skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,346 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase review guide that finds and ranks technical debt: the maintenance work that makes software harder to change over time. It checks code, architecture, tests, dependencies, documentation, and infrastructure, then tracks the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code health reviews, refactoring plans, cleanup sprints, onboarding, and engineering planning.
Why use it?
Technical debt is easy to accumulate and difficult to prioritize because not every problem has the same impact. This gives teams a structured way to decide which cleanup work matters most.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it for code health reviews, refactoring plans, cleanup sprints, onboarding, and engineering planning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miptah21/skills/tech-debt-tracker
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 miptah21/skills --skill tech-debt-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miptah21/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,346 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 $0.00048 $0.01346
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00538
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00135

Measured 1mo ago against content hash eda074bd8f5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-debt-tracker 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 1mo 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/tech-debt-tracker/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt Tracker

Category: Engineering Process

Overview

Identify, score, prioritize, and track technical debt across a codebase. Provides a systematic framework for making data-driven decisions about debt remediation vs. feature development.

When to Use

  • Codebase health assessments
  • Sprint planning — allocating debt reduction time
  • Before major refactors — understand what to prioritize
  • New team member onboarding — "where are the landmines?"
  • Quarterly engineering reviews

Debt Classification

Categories

Category Signal Patterns Impact
Code Debt TODOs, FIXMEs, complex functions, duplicated code Development velocity
Architecture Debt Circular deps, god objects, missing abstractions Scalability, maintainability
Test Debt Low coverage, missing edge cases, flaky tests Reliability, confidence
Dependency Debt Outdated packages, known CVEs, abandoned deps Security, compatibility
Documentation Debt Missing docs, outdated READMEs, no architecture docs Onboarding, knowledge sharing
Infrastructure Debt Manual deployments, no monitoring, missing CI steps Reliability, velocity

Severity Scoring

Score Level Criteria
1-3 Low Cosmetic, doesn't affect functionality
4-6 Medium Slows development, increases cognitive load
7-8 High Causes bugs, blocks features, hurts reliability
9-10 Critical Security risk, data loss potential, system instability

Scan Workflow

Step 1: Automated Signals

# Count TODO/FIXME/HACK markers
rtk grep -rn "TODO\|FIXME\|HACK\|XXX\|TEMP\|WORKAROUND" src/ --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx" --include="*.py" | wc -l

# List them with context
rtk grep -rn "TODO\|FIXME\|HACK" src/ --include="*.ts" --include="*.tsx"

# Find long files (>300 lines — potential god objects)
rtk find src/ -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.tsx" | xargs wc -l | sort -rn | head -20

# Find large functions (crude heuristic)
rtk grep -c "function\|=>" src/**/*.ts | sort -t: -k2 -rn | head -20

# Duplicated code (if jscpd available)
rtk bunx jscpd src/ --min-lines 10 --min-tokens 50

# Test coverage
rtk test bun test -- --coverage 2>/dev/null | tail -5

# Outdated dependencies
rtk bun outdated 2>/dev/null

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 1mo ago First seen · 155 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A eda074bd8f5c

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tech-debt-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository miptah21/skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,346 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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