Technical Debt Tracker

Purpose

Systematically identify, track, prioritize, and reduce technical debt — establishing a quantifiable, transparent process that balances feature velocity with codebase health.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "technical debt", "tech debt", "code debt", "debt tracking", "code quality debt", "debt backlog", "reduce tech debt", "tech debt sprint", "debt prioritization", "code health".

Input Context

• Codebase size and age (lines of code, years in production)
• Current pain points (slow development, frequent bugs, long onboarding)
• Existing debt indicators (test coverage %, cyclomatic complexity, duplication)
• Team size and velocity (story points per sprint, team capacity)
• Business constraints (release deadlines, regulatory requirements, SLAs)
• Tooling available (SonarQube, CodeClimate, Codacy, custom)