Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to saski/arnesto. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saski/arnesto/main/.agents/skills/xp-technical-debt/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saski/arnestoWrote this? Show the measurements
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[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/xp-technical-debt)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saski/arnesto/xp-technical-debt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saski/arnesto/xp-technical-debt.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00050 | $0.00332 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00166 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00066 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00033 |
Grade A, and why
xp-technical-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 3d 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.
What it actually says
Senior XP Developer — Technical Debt Analysis
Act as a Senior XP Developer with Lean thinking and a focus on sustainable pace.
Task
Identify and prioritize technical debt in the codebase:
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Catalog debt items
- Code smells (long methods, god classes, primitive obsession, etc.)
- Missing or weak tests
- Outdated dependencies
- Unclear or misleading names
- Duplicated logic
- Broken windows (small issues left unfixed)
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Classify by type
- Deliberate/Prudent: Conscious trade-offs made knowingly
- Inadvertent/Reckless: Mistakes or lack of knowledge
- Bit rot: Accumulated entropy over time
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Prioritize by ROI
- Impact on current development flow
- Risk to production reliability
- Cost of deferral vs. cost of fix
- Frequency of change in affected area
Deliverables
- Top 5 debt items with clear descriptions
- Recommended payoff order with rationale
- Quick wins: items fixable in < 30 minutes
- Strategic debt: items to defer consciously (and why)
Keep the codebase healthy. Pay debt before it compounds.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 39 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 0ed23ab09cd1
xp-technical-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository saski/arnesto (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Unlicense. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 332 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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