---
stable_id: skills/knowledge-work-plugins-engineering-skills-tech-debt-skill
type: skills
title: tech-debt
summary: Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Trigger with "tech
  debt", "technical debt audit", "what should we refactor", "code health", or
  when the user asks about code quality, refactoring priorities, or maintenance
  backlog.
tags:
  - source-knowledge-work-plugins
  - plugin-engineering
  - plugin-component-skills
  - plugin-skill
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/main/engineering/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md
license: ""
upstream_ref: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/main/engineering/skills/tech-debt/SKILL.md
github_stars: null
github_forks: null
github_is_organization: null
retrieved_at: 2026-06-11T08:32:06.863Z
content_sha256: ed3b4b1450c0fd9b8dad17313b5a4fafd8e6947d380b79b36a2e8259f3b1df0f
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