Technical Debt Quantifier Skill

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Measure, categorize, and prioritize technical debt for migration planning and remediation

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Then ask your AI: use the Technical Debt Quantifier Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

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Measures, categorizes, and prioritizes technical debt to support informed decision-making for migration planning and debt remediation strategies.

Purpose

Enable technical debt management for:

Debt categorization and inventory
Remediation effort estimation
Interest calculation (ongoing cost)
Priority scoring
Trend tracking

Capabilities

1. Debt Categorization

Code debt (smells, complexity)
Architecture debt (coupling, cohesion)
Test debt (coverage gaps)
Documentation debt
Infrastructure debt

2. Remediation Effort Estimation

Estimate fix time per item
Calculate total remediation cost
Identify quick wins
Plan sprint allocation

3. Interest Calculation

Calculate ongoing maintenance cost
Estimate productivity impact
Project future debt growth
Model compound interest

4. Priority Scoring

Score by business impact
Weight by risk level
Factor in remediation cost
Calculate ROI of fixes

5. Debt-to-Value Ratio

Compare debt to feature velocity
Benchmark against industry
Track debt percentage
Set organizational targets

6. Trend Tracking

Monitor debt over time
Track remediation progress
Identify debt sources
Report debt velocity

Tool Integrations

Tool	Purpose	Integration Method
SonarQube	Debt calculation	API
CodeScene	Hotspot analysis	API
Codacy	Quality metrics	API
Code Climate	Maintainability	API
NDepend	.NET debt analysis	CLI

Output Schema

{
  "analysisId": "string",
  "timestamp": "ISO8601",
  "debt": {
    "total": {
      "estimatedHours": "number",
      "monetaryValue": "number",
      "items": "number"
    },
    "byCategory": {
      "code": {},
      "architecture": {},
      "test": {},
      "documentation": {}
    },
    "byPriority": {
      "critical": [],
      "high": [],
      "medium": [],
      "low": []
    }
  },
  "metrics": {
    "debtRatio": "number",
    "debtPerLoc": "number",
    "interestRate": "number"
  },
  "trends": {
    "thirtyDay": "number",
    "ninetyDay": "number"
  },
  "recommendations": []
}

Integration with Migration Processes

legacy-codebase-assessment: Debt quantification
technical-debt-remediation: Prioritization

Related Skills

code-smell-detector: Debt identification
static-code-analyzer: Quality metrics

Related Agents

technical-debt-auditor: Deep debt analysis

Signals

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Last commit: Sep 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: technical-debt-quantifier
Source: github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

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