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title: "Remove Technical Debt - Air Market"
description: "You have an old codebase and changing anything feels risky, so nobody does. This walks you through fixing that in place, in phases, instead of starting over. It asks you questions at each decision po…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/remove-technical-debt"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Remove Technical Debt

Skill by [wondelai](/@wondelai)

# Remove Technical Debt

Make the code everyone fears safe to change, without a rewrite

## What this does

You have an old codebase and changing anything feels risky, so nobody does. This walks you through fixing that in place, in phases, instead of starting over. It asks you questions at each decision point and writes the plan and findings into your project docs, so you can stop and come back to it later. Reach for it when the fear of touching the code is the real problem.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Pay down debt in a codebase nobody wants to touch
- Avoid a big-bang rewrite
- Pick up where the last session left off

## Information

**Remove Technical Debt at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [wondelai](/@wondelai) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.0.1 |
| Size | 27 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wondelai/skills](https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/ab2d28a096f45e2c0e0ad1a696823db129554bd2/remove-technical-debt) |
| GitHub stars | 2,004 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 2,554, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Remove Technical Debt and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Remove Technical Debt's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | ab2d28a096f45e2c0e0ad1a696823db129554bd2 |
| Content hash | 820c0ad3ccf90852f253ddcb16b91a4288795cb332f58419641d1d8dbe3d576d |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wondelai/skills/blob/ab2d28a096f45e2c0e0ad1a696823db129554bd2/remove-technical-debt/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Remove Technical Debt](/security/remove-technical-debt)

## About Remove Technical Debt

This is a guided journey rather than a single pass: it takes a large aged codebase that everyone fears to touch and works it toward one that is safe to change, legible, bounded and resilient - paid down in place, without a rewrite.

It runs phase by phase, orchestrating eight other skills in turn: working-with-legacy-code, refactoring-patterns, clean-code, software-design-philosophy, clean-architecture, pragmatic-programmer, release-it and domain-driven-design. At every decision point it asks you rather than deciding for you, and it records results in your project docs folder - TESTING.md, TECH-DEBT.md and REMOVE-TECHNICAL-DEBT-PLAN.md - so the journey resumes across sessions.

Use it when you want to tame a legacy codebase or pay down debt safely. For a fresh prototype heading to production there is improve-code-quality; for greenfield structure, design-code-architecture; for a product-and-UX pass rather than code alone, improve-app. If you only want one framework, invoke that skill directly.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/artifact-templates.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Remove Technical Debt safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Remove Technical Debt and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit ab2d28a096f4, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/remove-technical-debt.

### How do I install Remove Technical Debt?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/remove-technical-debt on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/ab2d28a096f45e2c0e0ad1a696823db129554bd2/remove-technical-debt. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/remove-technical-debt>