tech-debt-audit

tech-debt-audit is a skill for Claude Code from stilero/claude-plugins. It costs 101 tokens per session (627 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase audit skill that uses 11 specialised checks to find technical debt. Technical debt is accumulated code and design work that makes future changes harder or riskier.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a project, group and rank problems, remove duplicate findings, and optionally prepare selected findings as GitHub issues.
Why use it?
It brings dependency, quality, architecture, testing, security, performance, and other findings into one prioritised report instead of requiring separate reviews.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the tech-debt-audit plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a project, group and rank problems, remove duplicate findings, and optionally prepare selected findings as GitHub issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stilero/claude-plugins/tech-debt-audit
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 stilero/claude-plugins --skill tech-debt-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stilero/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tech-debt-audit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 9 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 627 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 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 $0.00101 $0.00627
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00063

Measured 6d ago against content hash 23a054a2b919, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-debt-audit 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/tech-debt-audit/skills/tech-debt-audit/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Debt Audit

This skill runs a comprehensive technical debt audit by spawning 11 specialized agents in parallel, each examining the codebase from a different angle.

How It Works

  1. Context gathering — reads CLAUDE.md, package.json, tsconfig.json, file tree, and git churn to understand the project
  2. Parallel audit — launches 11 agents simultaneously, each focused on one category of technical debt
  3. Aggregation — merges findings, deduplicates overlapping issues, boosts severity when multiple agents converge
  4. Report — presents grouped issues ranked by severity
  5. Issue creation — offers to create GitHub issues for selected findings

The 11 Audit Agents

Agent Focus Model
dependency-auditor Outdated deps, CVEs, unused packages haiku
code-quality-analyzer Code smells, complexity, duplication, dead code sonnet
architecture-reviewer Circular deps, layer violations, pattern inconsistencies sonnet
test-coverage-analyzer Untested modules, test quality, integration gaps sonnet
error-handling-auditor Swallowed errors, missing error handling, resilience sonnet
performance-analyzer N+1 queries, missing indexes, unbounded queries sonnet
security-scanner Secrets, injection, validation, auth gaps sonnet
documentation-auditor Missing API docs, stale docs, missing ADRs haiku
type-safety-auditor any usage, unsafe assertions, strict mode gaps sonnet
api-design-reviewer Endpoint naming, pagination, error consistency sonnet
complexity-reviewer Over-engineering, unnecessary abstractions, YAGNI sonnet

Severity Boosting

When multiple agents flag the same area or pattern, severity is bumped one level:

  • An issue found by 1 agent keeps its original severity
  • An issue found by 2+ agents gets bumped (LOW→MEDIUM, MEDIUM→HIGH, HIGH→CRITICAL)

Issue Grouping

Related findings are merged into single actionable issues:

  • 8 endpoints missing pagination → one issue
  • 15 files using any type → one issue
  • 3 circular dependency chains → one issue

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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 · 50 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 23a054a2b919

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tech-debt-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository stilero/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 627 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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