Technical Debt Audit

Systematic technical debt assessment for engineering teams. Identifies, scores, and prioritizes debt across your codebase with business impact analysis and remediation roadmaps.

What It Does

Debt Discovery — Categorizes debt: architecture, code quality, dependency, testing, infrastructure, documentation
Impact Scoring — Rates each item on effort (1-5), risk (1-5), and business impact (1-5) using a weighted formula
Cost Modeling — Estimates carrying cost per sprint in developer-hours and dollars
Remediation Roadmap — Generates a prioritized paydown plan with quick wins, scheduled work, and strategic rewrites
Executive Summary — One-page board-ready report showing debt-to-velocity ratio and projected savings

Usage

Describe your system, stack, and known pain points. The agent audits systematically:

"Audit our technical debt. We're a Node.js/React SaaS with 180K LOC, 
12 engineers. Known issues: monolithic API, no integration tests, 
3 deprecated dependencies, manual deployments."

Scoring Formula

Priority Score = (Risk × 3) + (Business Impact × 2) + (1/Effort × 1)

Higher score = fix first. Quick wins (low effort, high risk) surface to the top.

Debt Categories

Category	Examples	Typical Carrying Cost
Architecture	Monoliths, tight coupling, wrong patterns	15-25% velocity drag
Code Quality	Duplication, god classes, no standards	10-20% velocity drag
Dependencies	Outdated libs, security vulns, EOL frameworks	5-15% + incident risk
Testing	No tests, flaky tests, manual QA only	20-40% bug-fix overhead
Infrastructure	Manual deploys, no monitoring, snowflake servers	10-30% ops overhead
Documentation	No onboarding docs, tribal knowledge	2-4 weeks per new hire

Output Format

# Technical Debt Audit Report
## Executive Summary
- Total debt items: [N]
- Estimated carrying cost: $[X]/month
- Debt-to-velocity ratio: [X]%
- Quick wins available: [N] items, [X] dev-days

## Critical (Fix This Sprint)
...

## High Priority (Next 30 Days)  
...

## Scheduled (Next Quarter)
...

## Strategic (Plan & Budget)
...

## Remediation Roadmap
Week 1-2: [Quick wins]
Month 1: [High priority]
Quarter: [Scheduled items]

Why This Matters

Engineering teams spend 23-42% of development time on technical debt (Stripe Developer Report). Most don't measure it. What you don't measure, you can't manage.

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