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Best technical debt skills, page 3
Technical debt skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | Performs deep architectural analysis of a specified module, directory, or feature area by examining structural coupling, data flow, concurrency patterns, risk, and SOLID alignment. | testdouble/ | 279 | — | ~6.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 98 | Helps engineering managers plan roadmaps, prioritize work, and communicate priorities effectively — produces the 20% tech debt framework (and its 5 traps), a phased release pressure-test, a… | manager-dot-dev/ | 114 | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 99 | Identify stale feature flags in a PostHog project and clean up the code that checks them. | PostHog/ | 40k | — | ~8.9k | Automated safety check: Warn | Unknown | today |
| 100 | 100.Cleanup Code Comprehensive codebase cleanup across 11 quality dimensions: dead code, duplication, weak types, circular deps, defensive cruft, legacy code, AI slop, type consolidation, security, performance, and… | jeremylongshore/ | 2.8k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 101 | Owns architecture, engineering delivery, infrastructure, data platform, and internal systems. | cbrock84/ | 2k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 20 days ago |
| 102 | Makes technical debt visible and decidable — distinguishing real debt from mess, quantifying its cost, and arguing for remediation in business terms. | cbrock84/ | 2k | — | ~829 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 20 days ago |
| 103 | 103.Techdebt Technical debt cleanup - inspects and cleans up duplicate code, console.log, unused imports, etc. | jh941213/ | 126 | — | ~503 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 104 | Guided journey from a working codebase grown slow and tangled to one measurably fast, cleanly bounded, and readable. | wondelai/ | 2.4k | — | ~7.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 105 | Guided journey from an app idea to a deliberate architecture: boundaries, domain model, data decisions, and resilience, making only the expensive-to-reverse decisions and deferring the rest. | wondelai/ | 2.4k | — | ~6.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 106 | 106.Improve App Guided journey from a shipped app that works but feels rough to a product that fits the job, flows without friction, reads clearly, and persuades honestly. | wondelai/ | 2.4k | — | ~6.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 107 | Guided journey from a working-but-untested vibe-coded prototype to a production-ready product with tests, clean structure, a business-rules boundary, and resilience at scale. | wondelai/ | 2.4k | — | ~6.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 108 | Guided journey from a large aged codebase everyone fears to touch to one that is safe to change, legible, bounded, and resilient - paid down in place without a rewrite. | wondelai/ | 2.4k | — | ~6.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 109 | Closes a large backlog of findings (a gap analysis, an audit, or 10+ bugs) in prioritized waves. | ash1794/ | 163 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 110 | Product quality metrics, SonarCloud analysis, technical debt management, code quality gates | Hack23/ | 239 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 111 | Document and prioritize a technical debt backlog with business impact, effort estimates, and resolution strategy. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 112 | Analyze codebases to identify reusable code patterns, duplications, and implementation patterns for future development. | majiayu000/ | 666 | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 113 | 113.Version Start 当项目需要规划或启动一个新的产品版本里程碑(如 v1.6、v2.0),明确版本目标、需求范围、 Spec 清单(含 feat/tech/debt/fix 四类平权)、依赖关系和整体验收条件时使用。 | HHU3637kr/ | 145 | — | ~833 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 15 days ago |
| 114 | 114.QA Sweep Apply when implementing features, fixing bugs, debugging errors, investigating failures, tracing root causes, reviewing tech debt, tracing issues, planning fixes, or completing any task. | ZaxbyHub/ | 490 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 115 | Deep technical debt and CI stability audit for identifying test theater, missing or mis-scoped tests, actual and potential test failures, flaky-test risk, dependency/toolchain brittleness, and… | ZaxbyHub/ | 490 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 116 | Codex adapter for deep technical-debt and CI-stability audits. | ZaxbyHub/ | 490 | — | ~239 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 117 | 117.Code Necromancer Systematic framework for resurrecting and modernizing legacy codebases through archaeology, resurrection, and rejuvenation phases. | curiositech/ | 243 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 118 | 118.Tech Debt A skill your agent uses when reworking a change to prevent tech debt, or auditing existing debt to categorize, score, and prioritize the refactor backlog. | secondsky/ | 227 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 119 | A skill your agent uses when ranking backlogs, deciding what to do first based on effort vs impact (quick wins vs big bets), prioritizing feature roadmaps, triaging bugs or technical debt… | nicepkg/ | 285 | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 mo ago |
| 120 | Assess codebase for modernization opportunities — tech debt, deprecated dependencies, outdated patterns, architectural improvements. | EmeaAppGbb/ | 100 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 121 | 121.Zero Tech Debt Rebuild a feature as if the correct product architecture existed from day one — remove compatibility cruft, dead abstractions, and historical compromises instead of preserving them. | jeremylongshore/ | 2.8k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 122 | 122.Code Health Scans the codebase for dead code, tech debt, outdated dependencies, and code quality issues. | davepoon/ | 3.6k | — | ~398 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 123 | 123.Research First Apply when planning fixes, investigating tech debt, architecting solutions, or diagnosing unknown issues that may involve external frameworks, dependencies, or platform behavior. | ZaxbyHub/ | 490 | — | ~481 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 124 | 124.Technology Radar CTO methodology for technology evaluation, architecture governance, build-vs-buy decisions, engineering metrics, technical debt quantification, and innovation pipeline management. | magnus919/ | 281 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 125 | A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at IEEE ICSME (maintenance, evolution, reverse engineering, program comprehension, technical debt, refactoring… | brycewang-stanford/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 days ago |
| 126 | 126.Cto Advisor CTO-level advisory - build vs buy decisions, tech debt quantification, team scaling, ADRs, technology evaluation (RICE), budget planning, TCO, vendor management, DORA/SPACE metrics | majiayu000/ | 666 | 1 repo | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 127 | Audit structural debt, logic leakage, and monolithic components across Web, Mobile, and Backend codebases. | HoangNguyen0403/ | 571 | — | ~643 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
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