brooks-debt
Tech debt assessment that identifies, classifies, and prioritizes maintainability problems — helping teams build a refactoring roadmap — drawing on twelve classic engineering books.
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Brooks-Lint — Tech Debt Assessment
When to Use
Use this skill when you need tech debt assessment that identifies, classifies, and prioritizes maintainability problems — helping teams build a refactoring roadmap — drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Triggers when: user asks about tech debt, refactoring priorities, what to clean up first, or asks "why...
Setup
- Read
../_shared/common.mdfor the Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, and Health Score rules - Read
../_shared/source-coverage.mdfor book-level coverage, exceptions, and tradeoffs - Read
../_shared/decay-risks.mdfor symptom definitions and source attributions - Read
debt-guide.mdin this directory for the debt classification framework
Process
If the user has not described the codebase or pointed to specific areas: apply Auto Scope Detection from ../_shared/common.md to determine the assessment scope before proceeding.
- Scan for all six decay risks (Step 1 of the guide); list every finding before scoring
- Apply the Pain × Spread priority formula and classify debt intent (Steps 2–3 of the guide)
- Group findings by decay risk (Step 4 of the guide)
- Output using the Report Template from common.md, plus the Debt Summary Table
Mode line in report: Tech Debt Assessment
Limitations
- Use this skill only when the task clearly matches its upstream source and
Subscribers only
The full skill, its 2 bundled files and every download is included with every paid Complete AI plan.
Details
| Source | hyhmrright/brooks-lint |
|---|---|
| License | MIT |
| Risk label | safe ("critical" means the skill may run commands or touch files — read before use) |
| Files | SKILL.md, debt-guide.md |
| Added | 2026-07-01 |
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