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Technical Debt Audit
Systematic technical debt assessment for engineering teams. Identifies, scores, and prioritizes debt across your codebase with business impact analysis and remediation roadmaps.
What It Does
- Debt Discovery — Categorizes debt: architecture, code quality, dependency, testing, infrastructure, documentation
- Impact Scoring — Rates each item on effort (1-5), risk (1-5), and business impact (1-5) using a weighted formula
- Cost Modeling — Estimates carrying cost per sprint in developer-hours and dollars
- Remediation Roadmap — Generates a prioritized paydown plan with quick wins, scheduled work, and strategic rewrites
- Executive Summary — One-page board-ready report showing debt-to-velocity ratio and projected savings
Usage
Describe your system, stack, and known pain points. The agent audits systematically:
"Audit our technical debt. We're a Node.js/React SaaS with 180K LOC,
12 engineers. Known issues: monolithic API, no integration tests,
3 deprecated dependencies, manual deployments."
Scoring Formula
Priority Score = (Risk × 3) + (Business Impact × 2) + (1/Effort × 1)
Higher score = fix first. Quick wins (low effort, high risk) surface to the top.
Debt Categories
| Category | Examples | Typical Carrying Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Monoliths, tight coupling, wrong patterns | 15-25% velocity drag |
| Code Quality | Duplication, god classes, no standards | 10-20% velocity drag |
| Dependencies | Outdated libs, security vulns, EOL frameworks | 5-15% + incident risk |
| Testing | No tests, flaky tests, manual QA only | 20-40% bug-fix overhead |
| Infrastructure | Manual deploys, no monitoring, snowflake servers | 10-30% ops overhead |
| Documentation | No onboarding docs, tribal knowledge | 2-4 weeks per new hire |
Output Format
# Technical Debt Audit Report
## Executive Summary
- Total debt items: [N]
- Estimated carrying cost: $[X]/month
- Debt-to-velocity ratio: [X]%
- Quick wins available: [N] items, [X] dev-days
## Critical (Fix This Sprint)
...
## High Priority (Next 30 Days)
...
## Scheduled (Next Quarter)
...
## Strategic (Plan & Budget)
...
## Remediation Roadmap
Week 1-2: [Quick wins]
Month 1: [High priority]
Quarter: [Scheduled items]
Why This Matters
Engineering teams spend 23-42% of development time on technical debt (Stripe Developer Report). Most don't measure it. What you don't measure, you can't manage.
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- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install afrexai-tech-debt-audit - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/afrexai-tech-debt-audit - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
What is Technical Debt Audit?
Systematically identifies, scores, and prioritizes technical debt across codebases with impact analysis and detailed remediation roadmaps for engineering teams. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 677 downloads so far.
How do I install Technical Debt Audit?
Run "/install afrexai-tech-debt-audit" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Technical Debt Audit free?
Yes, Technical Debt Audit is completely free (open-source). You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Technical Debt Audit support?
Technical Debt Audit is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Technical Debt Audit?
It is built and maintained by 1kalin (@1kalin); the current version is v1.0.0.