remove-technical-debt SKILL.md skillA
remove-technical-debt from wondelai/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wondelai/skills/remove-technical-debt@v1.0.2Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wondelai/skills
- Path
remove-technical-debt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.2, committed Aug 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 25,187 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,640
- License
- MIT
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. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - working-with-legacy-code, refactoring-patterns, clean-code, software-design-philosophy, clean-architecture, pragmatic-programmer, release-it, domain-driven-design - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (TESTING.md, TECH-DEBT.
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
# Remove Technical Debt Take a large, aged, tangled codebase that everyone is afraid to touch and pay its debt down in place — no big-bang rewrite, the old system always shipping. The instinct to rewrite is the one reliable way to turn a struggling-but-shipping product into a struggling-and-not-shipping one; this journey is the alternative. It is interactive and resumable across eight phases: the agent asks before every decision and records the outcome in your project's `docs/` folder, so you can stop after any phase and pick up later. The first phase builds a safety net at your change points; every phase after it is verifiable because that net exists. ## Core Principle **Feedback over fear: cover and modify, never edit and pray — pay debt down in place on the paths you actually walk, and never stop shipping.** This skill sequences the phases, asks the decision questions, and records every choice in `docs/`. The constituent skills carry the method — invoke them rather than improvising their frameworks. You do not pay down a mountain of debt by rebuilding the mountain; you pay it down one safe, tested step at a time along the paths you already change. Skipping ahead — cleaning… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wondelai/skills/remove-technical-debt@sha256:b586292b7611770bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Aug 28, 2026, about one every 21 days.
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| v1.0.2 latest | 2026-08-28 | eee89d8 | 25,187 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-08-09 | 21f45e4 | 25,179 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-16 | 6dd2ba4 | 24,899 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- 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
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Source
wondelai/skills · 2,640 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d73epd4vpn6w2pdn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wondelai/skills/remove-technical-debt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b586292b7611770bb64bd764705c35e579cef267459948a920f0e3d163ca5c1f
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