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title: "Tech Debt Management - Air Market"
description: "Everyone knows the codebase has problems, but not which ones to fix first. This finds the technical debt, sorts it into categories, and puts it in priority order. Reach for it when refactoring is on…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/tech-debt"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Tech Debt Management

Skill by [Anthropic](/@anthropics)

# Tech Debt Management

Work out what to refactor first, and what can wait

## What this does

Everyone knows the codebase has problems, but not which ones to fix first. This finds the technical debt, sorts it into categories, and puts it in priority order. Reach for it when refactoring is on the table and you need to argue for what goes first.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Find where the tech debt actually is
- Sort debt into what kind of problem it is
- Decide what to refactor first

## Information

**Tech Debt Management at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Anthropic](/@anthropics) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 1 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/tech-debt) |
| GitHub stars | 23,642 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 6,670, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Tech Debt Management and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Tech Debt Management's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf |
| Content hash | ddcea758b857ab46a32ab2422c5021dc6faba6a9d43beb7e40b0da1b92e827a7 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/tech-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 Tech Debt Management](/security/tech-debt)

## About Tech Debt Management

Technical debt is easy to feel and hard to act on. This identifies it, categorizes it, and puts it in priority order.

It picks up on the questions that come with it - what should we refactor, how is code health, what belongs in the maintenance backlog.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Tech Debt Management safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Tech Debt Management and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 9789ea78ad66, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/tech-debt.

### How do I install Tech Debt Management?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/tech-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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/tech-debt. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Anthropic](/@anthropics)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/tech-debt>