tech-debt

tech-debt is a skill for Claude Code from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles. It costs 52 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tech-debt, Apache-2.0.

A method for finding, grouping, and ranking technical debt: code or infrastructure that makes future changes, maintenance, or reliability harder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit code health, assess outdated dependencies, identify missing tests or documentation, and plan remediation alongside feature work.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide which refactoring and maintenance work matters most instead of keeping an unprioritized backlog.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to audit code health, assess outdated dependencies, identify missing tests or documentation, and plan remediation alongside feature work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/tech-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 nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles --skill tech-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 341 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 100% 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 $0.00052 $0.00341
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00034

Measured 8d ago against content hash b9040a7a30bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to tech-debt — 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.

profiles/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/anthropics_knowledge-work-plugins_engineering/for-claude/.claude/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Tech Debt Management

Systematically identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt.

Categories

Type Examples Risk
Code debt Duplicated logic, poor abstractions, magic numbers Bugs, slow development
Architecture debt Monolith that should be split, wrong data store Scaling limits
Test debt Low coverage, flaky tests, missing integration tests Regressions ship
Dependency debt Outdated libraries, unmaintained dependencies Security vulns
Documentation debt Missing runbooks, outdated READMEs, tribal knowledge Onboarding pain
Infrastructure debt Manual deploys, no monitoring, no IaC Incidents, slow recovery

Prioritization Framework

Score each item on:

  • Impact: How much does it slow the team down? (1-5)
  • Risk: What happens if we don't fix it? (1-5)
  • Effort: How hard is the fix? (1-5, inverted — lower effort = higher priority)

Priority = (Impact + Risk) x (6 - Effort)

Output

Produce a prioritized list with estimated effort, business justification for each item, and a phased remediation plan that can be done alongside feature 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. 8d ago First seen · 36 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A b9040a7a30bd

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tech-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 341 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to tech-debt, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.