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npx mdskill add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tech-debtIdentifies, categorizes, and prioritizes technical debt when users ask about code quality or refactoring.
- Helps manage code health by addressing issues like bugs, scaling limits, and security vulnerabilities.
- Integrates with no specific tools or services mentioned in the content.
- Uses a scoring framework based on impact, risk, and effort to prioritize items.
- Presents a prioritized list with effort estimates, justifications, and a phased remediation plan.
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--- name: tech-debt description: 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. --- # 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| | **Test debt** | Low coverage, flaky tests, missing integration tests | Regressions ship | | **Dependency debt** | Outdated libraries, unmaintained dependencies | Security vulns | | **Documentation debt** | Missing runbooks, outdated READMEs, tribal knowledge | Onboarding pain | | **Infrastructure debt** | Manual deploys, no monitoring, no IaC | Incidents, slow recovery | ## Prioritization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 estimated effort, business justification for each item, and a phased remediation plan that can be done alongside feature work.
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