Tech Debt Management

This child skill owns technical-debt elimination, refactor plans, dependency cleanup, anti-pattern removal, and schedulable debt cadences. It carries the detailed assets for this lane after the corrected fragmentation split.

Use When

• The request is primarily about technical-debt elimination, refactor plans, dependency cleanup, anti-pattern removal, and schedulable debt cadences.
• The parent router ../agentic-development/SKILL.md selects this child.
• The work needs this lane's references, scripts, examples, hooks, or templates.

References

• references/code-simplification.md — scope rules, behavior-preservation, external chain points
• references/deslop-simplify-guide.md — deslop (remove low-quality code: vague names, noise, weak error handling, dead code) and simplify (same behavior, less code: deduplication, control flow, stdlib) with checklists and output format
• references/refactor-planning.md — planning refactor work safely

Chain Rules