Technical Debt Register

Document and prioritize a technical debt backlog with business impact, effort estimates, and resolution strategy. Use when asked to audit technical debt, create a debt register, prioritize tech debt for a quarter, document architectural shortcuts, or build a debt reduction roadmap. Produces a structured technical debt register covering debt inventory by category, business impact per item, effort and priority scores, top-item resolution plans, and a quarterly debt reduction roadmap.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

What to give it

• Team or service name — what team and/or service this register covers
• Known debt items — list of known technical debt, or ask Claude to elicit them by asking about: legacy code, missing tests, outdated dependencies, architectural shortcuts, manual processes, observability gaps, security backlogs
• Tech stack — language, frameworks, infrastructure (helps Claude categorise and score items correctly)
• Team size and velocity — number of engineers and approximate story points or days per sprint (needed for effort estimates)
• Current quarter / planning period — so the roadmap targets the right timeframe

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