report-debt

report-debt is a skill for Claude Code from panbanda/omen. It costs 32 tokens per session (992 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A technical-debt reporting skill that examines a codebase for maintenance problems. Technical debt means shortcuts or weaknesses that make future changes harder, slower or riskier.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find TODO, FIXME and similar markers, measure code quality, duplication and complexity, and identify files likely to contain defects. It requires the Omen command-line tool.
Why use it?
It turns scattered warning markers and code-quality signals into a prioritised assessment with measurements. This gives teams evidence for planning refactoring and explaining why maintenance work is needed.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the omen-development plugin — 13 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/panbanda/omen/report-debt
Any agent
npx skills add panbanda/omen --skill report-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/panbanda/omen

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install omen-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 992 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00032 $0.00992
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00496
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00099

Measured 6d ago against content hash c6d9beb9f490, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

report-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 6d 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.

plugins/development/skills/report-debt/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Report Debt

Generate a comprehensive technical debt assessment with quantified metrics, prioritized issues, and actionable recommendations.

Prerequisites

Omen CLI must be installed and available in PATH.

Workflow

Step 1: Scan for Self-Admitted Debt

Run the SATD analysis to find explicit debt markers:

omen -f json satd

Captures TODO, FIXME, HACK, XXX, and other debt markers with severity.

Step 2: Calculate TDG Scores

Run the TDG analysis for quality grades:

omen -f json tdg

TDG provides A-F grades based on complexity, churn, and health metrics.

Step 3: Measure Duplication

Run the clone detection analysis:

omen -f json clones

Calculate duplication ratio and identify clone clusters.

Step 4: Assess Defect Risk

Run the defect prediction analysis:

omen -f json defect

Identify files with high predicted defect probability.

Step 5: Check Complexity

Run the complexity analysis:

omen -f json complexity

Find functions exceeding complexity thresholds.

Debt Categories

Organize findings by category:

Category Source Impact
Explicit SATD markers Known issues, documented
Structural TDG grade D/F Hard to maintain
Duplication Clone ratio > 5% Maintenance burden
Risk Defect probability > 0.7 Likely to cause bugs
Complexity Cyclomatic > 15 Hard to test/modify

Output Format

Generate a stakeholder-ready report:

# Technical Debt Report
Generated: YYYY-MM-DD

## Executive Summary

| Metric | Value | Status |
|--------|-------|--------|
| Overall TDG Grade | C+ | Needs attention |
| Duplication Ratio | 7.2% | Above target (5%) |
| High-Risk Files | 12 | 8% of codebase |
| SATD Items | 45 | 12 critical |

## Debt by Category

### Explicit Debt (SATD)
- **Critical**: 12 items (FIXME, HACK)
- **High**: 18 items (TODO with urgency)
- **Normal**: 15 items (TODO)

Top items:
1. `payment/processor.go:45` - HACK: Temporary fix for race condition
2. `auth/session.go:123` - FIXME: Security review needed
3. ...

### Structural Debt (TDG Grades)
| Grade | Files | % of Codebase |
|-------|-------|---------------|
| A | 45 | 30% |
| B | 52 | 35% |
| C | 32 | 21% |
| D | 15 | 10% |
| F | 6 | 4% |

Worst files:
1. `legacy/importer.go` - Grade F (TDG: 18)
2. `core/processor.go` - Grade D (TDG: 35)

### Duplication Debt
- **Total clones**: 23 clone groups
- **Duplicated lines**: 1,245 (7.2% of codebase)

Largest clones:
1. 85 lines duplicated across 3 files in `handlers/`
2. 45 lines duplicated between `validator.go` and `checker.go`

### Risk Debt
- **High-risk files**: 12 (defect probability > 0.7)
- **Medium-risk files**: 28 (probability 0.5-0.7)

## Recommended Actions

### Sprint 1 (Quick Wins)
1. Address 12 critical SATD items (est: 8 hours)
2. Consolidate largest clone cluster (est: 4 hours)
3. Split `legacy/importer.go` (est: 6 hours)

### Sprint 2-3 (Structural)
1. Refactor Grade D files (est: 20 hours)
2. Reduce complexity in `core/processor.go` (est: 8 hours)

### Long Term
1. Eliminate all Grade F files
2. Reduce duplication to < 3%
3. Add tests to high-risk files

## Tracking

| Metric | Last Month | This Month | Trend |
|--------|------------|------------|-------|
| TDG Average | 62 | 58 | Improving |
| Duplication | 8.1% | 7.2% | Improving |
| SATD Critical | 15 | 12 | Improving |

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 6d ago First seen · 156 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A c6d9beb9f490

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report-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository panbanda/omen (19 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 992 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 2026-08-30.

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