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tech-debt-tracker

Find, rank and track tech debt in a codebase. Use whenever the user asks what to refactor first, plans a cleanup sprint, modernizes legacy code or wants to know how messy the code is.

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# Tech Debt Tracker

**Tier**: POWERFUL 🔥  
**Category**: Engineering Process Automation  
**Expertise**: Code Quality, Technical Debt Management, Software Engineering

## Overview

Tech debt is one of the most insidious challenges in software development - it compounds over time, slowing down development velocity, increasing maintenance costs, and reducing code quality. This skill provides a comprehensive framework for identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, and tracking technical debt across codebases.

Tech debt isn't just about messy code - it encompasses architectural shortcuts, missing tests, outdated dependencies, documentation gaps, and infrastructure compromises. Like financial debt, it accrues "interest" through increased development time, higher bug rates, and reduced team velocity.

## What This Skill Provides