tech-debt-prioritizer

tech-debt-prioritizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from patricio0312rev/skillset. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,918 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tech-debt-prioritizer, MIT.

A guide for ranking technical debt, meaning code or design problems that make future changes slower or riskier. It scores issues by impact, risk, and effort, then produces a prioritized backlog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rank refactoring tasks, estimate their value and effort, and plan technical-debt work over a quarter.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide which refactoring work deserves attention instead of treating every code-quality issue as equally urgent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to rank refactoring tasks, estimate their value and effort, and plan technical-debt work over a quarter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/patricio0312rev/skillset/tech-debt-prioritizer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add patricio0312rev/skillset --skill tech-debt-prioritizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patricio0312rev/skillset

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,918 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00055 $0.01918
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00959
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00192

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1ccc98b37523, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-debt-prioritizer 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 12d 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-prioritizer — 0 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.

templates/architecture/tech-debt-prioritizer/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt Prioritizer

Systematically prioritize and pay down technical debt.

Scoring Rubric

Impact Score (1-10)

10 - Critical:

  • Prevents new features
  • Causes frequent prod incidents
  • Blocks multiple teams

7-9 - High:

  • Significantly slows development
  • Causes occasional incidents
  • Affects one team heavily

4-6 - Medium:

  • Moderate development friction
  • Rare incidents
  • Workarounds exist

1-3 - Low:

  • Minor annoyance
  • No incidents
  • Easy workarounds

Risk Score (1-10)

10 - Critical:

  • Security vulnerability
  • Data integrity issues
  • Legal/compliance risk

7-9 - High:

  • Potential data loss
  • System instability
  • Vendor end-of-life soon

4-6 - Medium:

  • Performance degradation
  • Occasional failures
  • Deprecated but working

1-3 - Low:

  • Code quality issues
  • Minor bugs
  • Style inconsistencies

Effort Score (1-10)

10 - Herculean:

  • 3+ months
  • Multiple teams
  • High risk changes

7-9 - Large:

  • 1-3 months
  • One team
  • Medium risk

4-6 - Medium:

  • 1-4 weeks
  • 1-2 developers
  • Low risk

1-3 - Small:

  • Days
  • Single developer
  • Very low risk

Priority Formula

Priority Score = (Impact * 2 + Risk * 1.5) / Effort

Higher score = Higher priority

Tech Debt Inventory

| ID     | Title                  | Impact | Risk | Effort | Score | Owner     |
| ------ | ---------------------- | ------ | ---- | ------ | ----- | --------- |
| TD-001 | Legacy auth system     | 9      | 10   | 8      | 3.7   | Auth Team |
| TD-002 | No database indexes    | 8      | 7    | 3      | 7.8   | Backend   |
| TD-003 | Monolithic build       | 7      | 4    | 6      | 4.0   | DevOps    |
| TD-004 | Duplicate API logic    | 6      | 3    | 4      | 4.1   | Backend   |
| TD-005 | Outdated dependencies  | 5      | 8    | 2      | 9.0   | All Teams |
| TD-006 | Missing error handling | 4      | 6    | 3      | 5.7   | Backend   |
| TD-007 | Poor test coverage     | 4      | 5    | 7      | 2.3   | All Teams |
| TD-008 | Inconsistent naming    | 3      | 2    | 5      | 1.6   | Frontend  |

**Sorted by Priority Score:**

1. TD-005: Outdated dependencies (9.0)
2. TD-002: No database indexes (7.8)
3. TD-006: Missing error handling (5.7)
4. TD-004: Duplicate API logic (4.1)
5. TD-003: Monolithic build (4.0)
   ...

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 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. 12d ago First seen · 330 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1ccc98b37523

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tech-debt-prioritizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository patricio0312rev/skillset (6 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,918 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-prioritizer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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