# Tech Debt

> Inventories a real codebase and ranks its technical debt into a register scored by interest (how often it hurts) over principal (effort to fix), every item anchored to a file-and-line or a metric. Covers code smells, dependency debt, test gaps, and architectural churn hotspots across frontend and backend. Use when asked what to pay down, where the codebase is rotting, or to turn debt into a tracked backlog. Files the register as GitHub issues on request. For org-level technology strategy and architecture direction, use cto-advisor.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-shipshitdev-tech-debt
- tashan id: skill:shipshitdev/tech-debt
- Source: https://github.com/shipshitdev/skills
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: 50.0 / 100
- Adoption: 14.0
- Upkeep: 98.0
- Freshness: 95.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r tech-debt ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.