tech-debt Skill
Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Trigger with "tech debt", "technical debt audit", "what should we refactor", "code health", or when the user asks about code quality, refactoring priorities, or maintenance backlog. Published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins.
What is tech-debt Skill?
Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Trigger with "tech debt", "technical debt audit", "what should we refactor", "code health", or when the user asks about code quality, refactoring priorities, or maintenance backlog. Published by anthropics in knowledge-work-plugins. This profile combines repository metadata with install, compatibility, and usage signals so developers can quickly decide whether it fits their agent workflow before opening the source repository.
Automated repository signals based on public metadata such as recency, license, installation evidence, and adoption. These are not a security audit or endorsement.
Key capabilities
- Includes SKILL.md support
- Reusable instructions support
- Testing
- Security review
- Documentation
- Data analysis
- Testing use cases
Technical details
- Install or run with Copy skill directory
When to use tech-debt Skill
- Use it for testing.
- Use it for security review.
- Use it for documentation.
- Use it for data analysis.
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Source
- Creator: anthropics
- Repository: anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
- Skill file: engineering/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md
What it does
Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Trigger with "tech debt", "technical debt audit", "what should we refactor", "code health", or when the user asks about code quality, refactoring priorities, or maintenance backlog.
Skill instructions
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limits | | Test debt | Low coverage, flaky tests, missing integration tests | Regressions ship | | Dependency debt | Outdated libraries, unmaintained dependencies | Security vulns | | Documentation debt | Missing runbooks, outdated READMEs, tribal knowledge | Onboarding pain | | Infrastructure debt | Manual deploys, no monitoring, no IaC | Incidents, slow recovery | Prioritization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
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What is tech-debt?
tech-debt is a open-source AI agent skill with Copy skill directory. Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Trigger with "tech debt", "technical debt audit", "what should we refactor", "code health", or when the user asks about code quality, refactoring.
Who is tech-debt best for?
tech-debt is best for reusing agent instructions, scripts, and references, testing workflows, security review workflows, documentation workflows.
How do I install tech-debt?
Install or run tech-debt using Copy skill directory. Check tech-debt for the latest setup command.
Is tech-debt actively maintained?
tech-debt may need a closer maintenance check before production use.
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