tech-debt SKILL.md skillA
tech-debt from pantheon-org/tekhne is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/tech-debt@git:20260824.4a8d48ePins git:20260824.4a8d48e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/project-mgmt/tech-debt/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260824.4a8d48e, committed Aug 24, 2026
- Size
- 13,179 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Maintain docs/TECH_DEBT.md, the living list of code-level cleanup that isn't a risk, a shortcut, or an open decision (that's the risk-register skill's job) and isn't a future feature (that's ROADMAP.md's job). Use when a lint/format/style violation slips past an existing gate, a small known cleanup is noticed while working on something else, or a filed item is fixed and needs removing. DO NOT use for anything with a real cost or risk if left unaddressed (use risk-register instead), for aislop…
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
# Tech Debt A single committed table (`docs/TECH_DEBT.md`) of code-level cleanup that isn't a risk, a shortcut, or an open decision (`docs/RISK_REGISTER.md`'s job) and isn't a future feature (`docs/ROADMAP.md`'s job) -- just things that should get tidied up when there's spare time. Sibling to the `risk-register` skill, sharing its scaffolding pattern (dedicated skill, YAML row template, JSON schema, validation script) but not its append-only invariant: a tech-debt row is deleted once fixed, not archived, because there is no decision to keep evidence of. ## Rules 1. **A row is deleted once fixed, not archived.** Unlike `risk-register`'s `docs/RISK_REGISTER.md`, there is no append-only guard here and no technical backstop preventing deletion -- that is the deliberate design, not a gap. A concurrent-edit merge that drops a still-open row alongside a legitimate deletion is a known, accepted limitation of this model; it is not engineered around, because the whole point of choosing this model over `risk-register`'s is to avoid that machinery for low-stakes items. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/tech-debt@sha256:d05d05308f0081dbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260824.4a8d48e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rcgo4usjnobp54ls)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 24, 2026.
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 (13179 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
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rcgo4usjnobp54ls GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pantheon-org/tekhne/tech-debt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d05d05308f0081db3123ddc00bfb4985841fe4b441fb48f859a33c142e23f10c
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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