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Assess Technical Debt

An analysis-only skill that scans your whole project across five debt dimensions and ships a ranked priority matrix plus Markdown and HTML reports.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 405⑂ 32AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 3, 2026

What it does

  • Partitions your codebase (or specified paths) by top-level directory and scans each partition with parallel agents, plus one project-wide architecture pass.
  • Classifies debt into five dimensions: complexity hotspots, deprecated API usage, duplication clusters, architecture rot, low-value tests.
  • Scores every finding for impact and refactor effort, then sorts into Quick Wins, Strategic Refactors, Incremental, and Defer tiers.
  • Runs /evaluate-findings to kill false positives and escalates judgment calls to you via AskUserQuestion (with an option to get a second opinion).
  • Writes .turbo/technical-debt.md and a self-contained, responsive, print-friendly .turbo/technical-debt.html.
  • Never touches your code — empirical checks happen only in a throwaway git worktree, with cleanup verified afterward.

Who it's for

  • Developers and tech leads inheriting a legacy codebase who need to know where to start.
  • Teams that must document a refactoring roadmap or technical-debt backlog.
  • Teams pruning low-value tests or auditing module-boundary violations.

Examples

  1. "Assess technical debt" → full-codebase scan with a ranked priority matrix report.
  2. "Find refactoring candidates in src/payments" → scope limited to that path only.
  3. "Which tests can we delete?" → low-value test findings with evidence and impact ratings.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo.git /tmp/turbo && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/turbo/claude/skills/assess-technical-debt ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo.git /tmp/turbo
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy the skill: cp -r /tmp/turbo/claude/skills/assess-technical-debt ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Keep the whole folder — the skill reads references/debt-reviewer.md for its taxonomy and rubric.
  5. Optionally copy the companion skills it calls: cp -r /tmp/turbo/claude/skills/evaluate-findings /tmp/turbo/claude/skills/frontend-design ~/.claude/skills/
  6. Run Claude Code from your project root and ask it to "assess technical debt"; it will confirm scope first.
  7. Review the output in .turbo/technical-debt.md and open .turbo/technical-debt.html in a browser.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT