ai-debt-detector SKILL.md skillA
ai-debt-detector from wshobson/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wshobson/agents/ai-debt-detector@git:20260707.3ea6aadPins git:20260707.3ea6aad in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Path
plugins/skill-forge-essentials/skills/ai-debt-detector/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260707.3ea6aad, committed Jul 7, 2026
- Size
- 3,398 bytes
- Repository stars
- 42,320
- License
- MIT
Use after generating code, after accepting AI suggestions, or when reviewing AI-written modules. Also use when code works but feels brittle, when error handling seems thin, when orphaned resources or missing cleanup are suspected, or when the agent claims done but hidden debt may exist. Catches the specific failure patterns AI agents produce that humans would not.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# AI Debt Detector ## Overview AI agents generate code that passes the happy path but hides debt: missing error handling, orphaned resources, ignored failure modes, hallucinated packages, silent architectural drift. This skill forces a targeted audit for the exact patterns AI agents get wrong. ## When to Use - After any AI code generation session (20+ lines produced) - Before merging AI-generated PRs - When code works but something feels off - After vibe-coding sprints where debt accumulates fastest - When the agent claims done without showing verification ## Process After code generation, scan for these AI-specific debt patterns: 1. **FAILURE MODES** - What happens when this fails? - Network timeout? Disk full? Permission denied? Null input? - Is there a try/catch? Does it catch SPECIFIC errors or swallow everything? - Are resources cleaned up on failure? (streams closed, connections returned, temp files deleted) 2. **ORPHANS** - What gets created but never cleaned up? - Temp files, event listeners, intervals, subscriptions, connections - Are there corresponding cleanup/dispose/close calls for every open/create? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wshobson/agents/ai-debt-detector@sha256:0109ee12b36b9fafThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260707.3ea6aad, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 7, 2026.
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Source
wshobson/agents · 42,320 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_32ug5uoay6w5aqyi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wshobson/agents/ai-debt-detector GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0109ee12b36b9faf1b586c56f274b142d04bdc909b38d9ad8d119a334850b51b
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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