Technical Debt Quantifier Skill

Measures, categorizes, and prioritizes technical debt to support informed decision-making for migration planning and debt remediation strategies.

Purpose

Enable technical debt management for:

• Debt categorization and inventory
• Remediation effort estimation
• Interest calculation (ongoing cost)
• Priority scoring
• Trend tracking

Capabilities

1. Debt Categorization

• Code debt (smells, complexity)
• Architecture debt (coupling, cohesion)
• Test debt (coverage gaps)
• Documentation debt
• Infrastructure debt

2. Remediation Effort Estimation

• Estimate fix time per item
• Calculate total remediation cost
• Identify quick wins
• Plan sprint allocation

3. Interest Calculation

• Calculate ongoing maintenance cost
• Estimate productivity impact
• Project future debt growth
• Model compound interest

4. Priority Scoring

• Score by business impact
• Weight by risk level
• Factor in remediation cost
• Calculate ROI of fixes

5. Debt-to-Value Ratio

• Compare debt to feature velocity
• Benchmark against industry
• Track debt percentage
• Set organizational targets

6. Trend Tracking

• Monitor debt over time
• Track remediation progress
• Identify debt sources
• Report debt velocity

Tool Integrations

Tool	Purpose	Integration Method
SonarQube	Debt calculation	API
CodeScene	Hotspot analysis	API
Codacy	Quality metrics	API
Code Climate	Maintainability	API
NDepend	.NET debt analysis	CLI

Output Schema

{
  "analysisId": "string",
  "timestamp": "ISO8601",
  "debt": {
    "total": {
      "estimatedHours": "number",
      "monetaryValue": "number",
      "items": "number"
    },
    "byCategory": {
      "code": {},
      "architecture": {},
      "test": {},
      "documentation": {}
    },
    "byPriority": {
      "critical": [],
      "high": [],
      "medium": [],
      "low": []
    }
  },
  "metrics": {
    "debtRatio": "number",
    "debtPerLoc": "number",
    "interestRate": "number"
  },
  "trends": {
    "thirtyDay": "number",
    "ninetyDay": "number"
  },
  "recommendations": []
}

Integration with Migration Processes

• legacy-codebase-assessment: Debt quantification
• technical-debt-remediation: Prioritization

Related Skills

• code-smell-detector: Debt identification
• static-code-analyzer: Quality metrics

Related Agents

• technical-debt-auditor: Deep debt analysis