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tech-debt is agent-read markdown (skill) from drafthq/draft: Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt across seven dimensions. Generates remediation plans with effort estimates. Offered by /draft:new-track for refactor tracks..

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What the file says

# Tech Debt

You are conducting a technical debt analysis to catalog, prioritize, and plan remediation of debt across the codebase.

## MANDATORY GRAPH LOOKUP (read before debt scan)

First resolve the bundled helpers:

```bash
# Locate Draft's bundled helpers (cwd is the user's project; ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}
# is not exported into skill Bash). See core/shared/tool-resolver.md.
DRAFT_TOOLS="${DRAFT_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cat ~/.cache/draft/plugin-root 2>/dev/null)}/scripts/tools"
[ -d "$DRAFT_TOOLS" ] || DRAFT_TOOLS="$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/draft/*/scripts/tools 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)"
[ -d "$DRAFT_TOOLS" ] || DRAFT_TOOLS="$(ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/*draft*/scripts/tools 2>/dev/null | tail -1)"
[ -d "$DRAFT_TOOLS" ] || DRAFT_TOOLS="$PWD/scripts/tools"
```

When `draft/graph/schema.yaml` exists, this skill **must** follow the graph-first lookup contract in [core/shared/graph-query.md](../../core/shared/graph-query.md) §Mandatory Lookup Contract. Tech-debt prioritization is fundamentally driven by graph data:

1. Run `"$DRAFT_TOOLS/hotspot-rank.sh" --repo .` — **rank candidates by `fanIn × complexity`** to surface high-leverage debt first.
…

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How to install

Latest version
mdr add drafthq/draft/tech-debt@git:20260819.fda278e
Exact content
mdr add drafthq/draft/tech-debt@sha256:be4ca98f11359bce

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git:20260819.fda278e latest2026-08-19 fda278e 16,545 BA view · diff
git:20260716.8fa8aa02026-07-16 8fa8aa0 16,540 BA view · diff
git:20260616.41b20702026-06-16 41b2070 16,496 BA view · diff
git:20260615.4c8d2a32026-06-15 4c8d2a3 15,593 BA view · diff
git:20260611.33c921c2026-06-11 33c921c 15,588 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16545 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

GitHub

drafthq/draft · 40 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bsbohuvze3wnemxd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=drafthq/draft/tech-debt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/be4ca98f11359bcec51af09ad100ce7278aa326cfa1eb8e85f1b68882869afa2

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