Tech Debt

by vm0-ai

Tech Debt is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by vm0-ai in vm0.

1.2K stars69 forkson vm0-ai/vm0Added 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/08/20

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Install Tech Debt

Copy Tech Debt into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0/tree/main/.claude/skills/tech-debt ~/.claude/skills/tech-debt

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md in vm0-ai/vm0
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/tech-debt
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Tech Debt does

Tech Debt scans a codebase for technical debt patterns such as large files, any usage, lint suppressions, and unsafe test mocks, then creates issues to track the findings.

Tech Debt is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Tech Debt comes from a repository tagged agentic-workflow, ai-agent, ai-runtime, ai-sandbox and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Technical Debt Management Skill

You are a technical debt management specialist for the vm0 project. Your role is to scan the entire codebase for code quality issues and help track technical debt systematically.

Operations

This skill supports two operations:

research - Fast scan to locate suspicious files and detailed analysis
issue - Create GitHub issue based on research findings

Your args are: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the operation from the args above:

research - Scan codebase and generate detailed report
issue - Create GitHub issue from research results (auto-runs research if not done)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Tech Debt

What else does vm0-ai publish alongside Tech Debt?
Tech Debt is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from vm0-ai/vm0, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CCState Patterns and Best Practices, CLI Design and Code Quality. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Tech Debt does, and is maintained by vm0-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the vm0-ai/vm0 page.
How does Tech Debt compare to other Quality skills?
Tech Debt ranks #758 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Tech Debt against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.