The shortcuts your agent takes while coding are piling up.
GitClear's study of 211M lines shows the pattern: refactoring is dropping and duplicated code keeps climbing.
And if you've spent enough time coding with agents, you've felt this pain.
So I ran a study on ~20 years of tech-debt research, distilled the findings into a few commandments, and wired them into my agent loop as a plugin.
How it works: as your agent writes code, every deferral, a loose type, a punted decision gets logged to a folder in your repo as debt. Every key decision gets logged as an ADR.
It's a passive tracker until YOU decide to pay the debt down. Then the plugin walks you through it the research-backed way.
Works in Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, or anything you can drop an Agent Skill into.
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