a5c-ai 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 identificationstatic-code-analyzer: Quality metrics
Related Agents
technical-debt-auditor: Deep debt analysis