tech-debt-communication

tech-debt-communication is a skill for Claude Code from mrthames/lean-pm-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,637 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for explaining technical debt as a business decision. Technical debt is the future cost and risk created by taking shortcuts or leaving engineering problems unresolved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure and communicate infrastructure work when asking leadership for investment.
Why use it?
It helps engineering show leadership what the debt costs and why investing in infrastructure is worthwhile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the lean-pm-skills plugin — 25 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to measure and communicate infrastructure work when asking leadership for investment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrthames/lean-pm-skills/tech-debt-communication
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 mrthames/lean-pm-skills --skill tech-debt-communication
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrthames/lean-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lean-pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,637 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 unknown 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 $0.00034 $0.01637
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00818
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00164

Measured 10d ago against content hash a29f65eb9665, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-debt-communication 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 10d 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/tech-debt-communication/SKILL.md · 166 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 10d ago First seen · 166 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A a29f65eb9665

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tech-debt-communication is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrthames/lean-pm-skills (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,637 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 2026-08-31.