tech-debt-tracker

tech-debt-tracker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,028 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tech-debt-tracker, Apache-2.0.

A codebase review aid for finding and organizing technical debt, such as outdated dependencies, missing tests, documentation gaps, and architectural shortcuts. Technical debt is work postponed today that can make future changes slower or riskier.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a codebase, rank debt items, track code-health trends, plan modernization work, and estimate maintenance costs.
Why use it?
It helps replace an unstructured cleanup backlog with severity scores, trends, and a prioritized remediation plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to scan a codebase, rank debt items, track code-health trends, plan modernization work, and estimate maintenance costs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit/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 Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit --skill tech-debt-tracker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,028 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00063 $0.01028
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00514
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00103

Measured 9d ago against content hash 61029ba848ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (assets/sample_codebase/src/frontend.js, assets/sample_codebase/src/payment_processor.py, assets/sample_codebase/src/user_service.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to tech-debt-tracker — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/programming/code-quality/tech-debt-tracker/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt Tracker

Tier: POWERFUL 🔥
Category: Engineering Process Automation
Expertise: Code Quality, Technical Debt Management, Software Engineering

Overview

Tech debt is one of the most insidious challenges in software development - it compounds over time, slowing down development velocity, increasing maintenance costs, and reducing code quality. This skill provides a comprehensive framework for identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, and tracking technical debt across codebases.

Tech debt isn't just about messy code - it encompasses architectural shortcuts, missing tests, outdated dependencies, documentation gaps, and infrastructure compromises. Like financial debt, it accrues "interest" through increased development time, higher bug rates, and reduced team velocity.

What This Skill Provides

This skill offers three interconnected tools that form a complete tech debt management system:

  1. Debt Scanner - Automatically identifies tech debt signals in your codebase
  2. Debt Prioritizer - Analyzes and prioritizes debt items using cost-of-delay frameworks
  3. Debt Dashboard - Tracks debt trends over time and provides executive reporting

Together, these tools enable engineering teams to make data-driven decisions about tech debt, balancing new feature development with maintenance work.

Quick Start — scan → prioritize → dashboard

All paths relative to this skill folder. The scanner's JSON output feeds the prioritizer directly; dated inventory snapshots feed the dashboard.

1. Scan the codebase

python3 scripts/debt_scanner.py /path/to/codebase --format json --output debt_inventory.json

Emits debt_inventory.json with scan_metadata, summary, debt_items[], file_statistics, and recommendations. Report the summary counts to the user. (Dry run: assets/sample_codebase.)

2. Prioritize the backlog

python3 scripts/debt_prioritizer.py debt_inventory.json --framework wsjf --team-size 6 --sprint-capacity 20 --format json --output debt_priorities.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 9d ago First seen · 93 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 61029ba848ac

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tech-debt-tracker is a skill published in the GitHub repository Morningstar202604/awesome-skillkit (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,028 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to tech-debt-tracker, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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