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Assess Technical Debt

Scans an entire project for complexity hotspots, deprecated APIs, duplication and architecture rot, then ranks findings by impact vs. refactor effort in a markdown + HTML report.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 399⑂ 29AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 23, 2026

What it does

  • Partitions the source tree by top-level directory and fans out one agent per partition plus a project-wide architecture agent.
  • Collects structural debt across four dimensions: complexity hotspots, deprecated API usage, duplication clusters, architecture rot.
  • Deduplicates overlapping findings, runs /evaluate-findings to strip false positives, then scores each item for impact and refactor effort.
  • Sorts results into Quick wins / Strategic refactors / Incremental / Defer tiers and writes .turbo/technical-debt.md plus a self-contained interactive .turbo/technical-debt.html.
  • Strictly analysis-only: no code edits, no commits; empirical checks run inside a throwaway git worktree under $TMPDIR so your working tree and git index stay untouched.

Who it's for

  • Developers and tech leads inheriting a legacy codebase who need to know where to start refactoring.
  • Anyone who must present a refactoring roadmap or a technical-debt report to a team or management.
  • Teams wanting a periodic structural health check beyond diff-scoped code review.

Example uses

  1. "Assess technical debt" → full-codebase scan with a prioritized impact/effort matrix.
  2. "Find refactoring candidates in src/api and src/workers" → analysis limited to the given paths.
  3. "What's our worst code?" → surfaces the Quick wins tier for immediate cleanup.

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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/

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  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo.git /tmp/turbo
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r /tmp/turbo/claude/skills/assess-technical-debt ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify references/debt-reviewer.md came along — copy the whole folder, not just SKILL.md.
  6. Also copy the sibling evaluate-findings and frontend-design skills so the false-positive filter and HTML report steps work end to end.
  7. Run claude inside your project and ask it to "assess technical debt".
  8. Review the output at .turbo/technical-debt.md and open .turbo/technical-debt.html in a browser.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT