Technical Debt

Technical Debt skills and workflows surfaced by the site skill importer.

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improve-codebase-architecture

by mattpocock

improve-codebase-architecture helps you find architectural friction, shallow modules, and deepening opportunities in a codebase. Use it for refactoring reviews, testability improvements, and AI-navigable design decisions, especially when you want the skill to respect CONTEXT.md and docs/adr/ guidance.

Refactoring
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deprecation-and-migration

by addyosmani

deprecation-and-migration helps teams plan safe API, feature, and system retirement with phased migration, dependency discovery, rollout timing, notices, and rollback criteria.

Refactoring
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extract

by pbakaus

The extract skill helps teams find repeated UI patterns, tokens, and components, then plan or perform consolidation into an existing design system with a safer migration path.

Design Systems
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request-refactor-plan

by mattpocock

request-refactor-plan helps agents turn a vague refactor idea into a scoped GitHub issue through user interview, repo inspection, option analysis, testing checks, and tiny commit planning.

Refactoring
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migrate-to-shoehorn

by mattpocock

migrate-to-shoehorn helps refactor TypeScript test files from unsafe `as` and `as unknown as` casts to `fromPartial()` and `fromAny()` with @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use it for test-only fixture cleanup, partial data, and safer negative-test migrations.

Refactoring
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improve-codebase-architecture

by mattpocock

improve-codebase-architecture helps inspect a real repo, surface architectural friction, and propose deep-module refactoring candidates that improve testability, seams, and maintainability.

Refactoring
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reducing-entropy

by softaworks

The reducing-entropy skill is a manual-only refactoring aid for shrinking codebases. Read SKILL.md and at least one reference mindset first, then use it deliberately to favor deletion, simpler end states, and less total code.

Refactoring
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refactoring-specialist

by zhaono1

refactoring-specialist is a code refactoring skill for improving structure, readability, and maintainability while preserving behavior. It helps identify code smells, apply small safe refactors, and keep tests and verification in view.

Refactoring
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moyu-ko

by uucz

moyu-ko is a code-editing skill that keeps changes minimal, scoped, and review-friendly. It helps avoid overengineering by editing only requested files, using the simplest fix, and asking when scope is unclear. Use the moyu-ko skill when you want precise diffs, focused bug fixes, and a practical moyu-ko guide for disciplined code edits.

Code Editing
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pua-en

by tanweai

pua-en is a GitHub skill for escalating stalled AI work with structured troubleshooting, stronger initiative, and clear trigger rules. Use it after repeated failures, passive investigation, or debugging dead ends. Review SKILL.md, install from tanweai/pua, and apply it to code, config, deployment, API, and research tasks when normal prompting is not enough.

Debugging
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Technical Debt