brooks-debt SKILL.md skillA
brooks-debt from hyhmrright/brooks-lint is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-debt@git:20260920.0cb86a7Pins git:20260920.0cb86a7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hyhmrright/brooks-lint
- Path
skills/brooks-debt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260920.0cb86a7, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 20, 2026
- Size
- 1,640 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,554
- License
- MIT
Tech debt assessment that identifies, classifies, and prioritizes maintainability problems — helping teams build a refactoring roadmap — drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Triggers when: user asks about tech debt, refactoring priorities, what to clean up first, or asks "why is this so hard to change?", "what should we fix first?", or "how do I justify refactoring to management?". Do NOT trigger for: server health checks, HTTP /health endpoints, Kubernetes probes, database health, or…
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
# Brooks-Lint — Tech Debt Assessment ## Setup Read in order: 1. `../_shared/common.md` — Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, Health Score 2. `../_shared/source-coverage.md` — book coverage, exceptions, tradeoffs 3. `../_shared/decay-risks.md` — symptom definitions and source attributions 4. `debt-guide.md` (this directory) — the debt classification framework ## Process **Scope:** if the user did not describe the codebase or point to specific areas, apply Auto Scope Detection (`../_shared/common.md`) first. 1. Scan for all six decay risks (Step 1 of the guide); list every finding before scoring 2. Apply the Pain × Spread priority formula and classify debt intent (Steps 2–3 of the guide) 3. Group findings by decay risk (Step 4 of the guide) 4. Output using the Report Template from common.md, plus the Debt Summary Table **Mode line in report:** `Tech Debt Assessment`
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-debt@sha256:8ee2164c75fe5f82The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.0cb86a7, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 20, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 38 days.
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| git:20260920.0cb86a7 latest | 2026-09-20 | 0cb86a7 | 1,640 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.cbed805 | 2026-08-04 | cbed805 | 1,605 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260620.c77dcc6 | 2026-06-20 | c77dcc6 | 1,679 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.caea115 | 2026-04-28 | caea115 | 1,745 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260420.741283e | 2026-04-20 | 741283e | 2,133 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1640 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
hyhmrright/brooks-lint · 1,554 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bacmvny2bulb5xrm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-debt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8ee2164c75fe5f82ea6cd64ff62c32712c4d8d8539a4cba6620bd9a90b087151
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