About brooks-debt
brooks-debt is a Brooks-Lint skill for assessing technical debt in a codebase. It scans six decay risks, prioritizes findings by Pain × Spread, classifies debt intent, and reports findings by risk.
Key features
- 01Scans six decay risks
- 02Prioritizes by Pain × Spread
- 03Classifies debt intent
- 04Groups findings by risk
- 05Produces a debt summary table
Use cases
- 01Assessing technical debt across a codebase
- 02Prioritizing debt findings for remediation
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ hyhmrright/ brooks-lint --skill brooks-debtAfter installing, type/brooks-debtin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesdebt-guide.md
Details
From the project READMEBrooks-Lint — Tech Debt Assessment
Setup
Read in order:
../_shared/common.md— Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, Health Score../_shared/source-coverage.md— book coverage, exceptions, tradeoffs../_shared/decay-risks.md— symptom definitions and source attributionsdebt-guide.md(this directory) — the debt classification framework
Process
Scope: if the user did not describe the codebase or point to specific areas, apply
Auto Scope Detection (../_shared/common.md) first.
- 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
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