/metrics
Print a debt-ops health summary from the metrics log, covering registration rate, hook feedback action rate, ADR creation, and AI-authored share. Use when the user asks for "debt-ops metrics", "debt health", "registry stats", or invokes /debt-ops:metrics. Read-only, never writes
$ npx -y skills add bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt --skill metrics --agent claude-codeHow it fires
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- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
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Print a debt-ops health summary from the metrics log, covering registration rate, hook feedback action rate, ADR creation, and AI-authored share. Use when the user asks for "debt-ops metrics", "debt health", "registry stats", or invokes /debt-ops:metrics. Read-only, never writes
SKILL.md
metrics.SKILL.mdname: metrics
description: Print a debt-ops health summary from the metrics log, covering registration rate, hook feedback action rate, ADR creation, and AI-authored share. Use when the user asks for "debt-ops metrics", "debt health", "registry stats", or invokes /debt-ops:metrics. Read-only, never writes the log.
allowed-tools: Bash, Read
# Hidden from `npx skills` discovery — this copy ships in the Claude Code plugin (uses ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}); the portable skills/ copy is the one for the skills CLI.
metadata:
internal: true/debt-ops:metrics
Read the hidden metrics log and tell the user whether v1's tripwires are tripping.
1. Find the log
TOPLEVEL=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
REPO_HASH=$(printf '%s' "$TOPLEVEL" | shasum | cut -c1-12)
# Locate this repo's plugin cache. CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA is set in hook
# subprocesses but NOT in the skill's bash env, so glob the standard
# Claude Code plugin-data dirs and fall back to the legacy cache path.
CACHE_DIR=""
for D in \
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA:+"$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA/cache/$REPO_HASH"} \
"$HOME/.claude/plugins/data"/debt-ops*/cache/"$REPO_HASH" \
"$HOME/.cache/debt-ops/cache/$REPO_HASH"; do
[ -d "$D" ] && { CACHE_DIR="$D"; break; }
done
LOG="$CACHE_DIR/metrics.jsonl"
if [ -n "$CACHE_DIR" ] && [ -f "$LOG" ]; then
tail -n 500 "$LOG"
else
echo "MISSING: no metrics.jsonl found for repo hash $REPO_HASH"
fiIf the file is missing or empty, tell the user the hooks haven't fired yet in this repo and stop.
2. The log format
One JSON object per line, three event shapes:
- `{"event":"edit","file":"...","registry_count":N,"ts":"..."}` — every agent edit
- `{"event":"feedback","file":"...","result":"pass|fail","ts":"..."}` — every quality-check fire
- `{"event":"session","registry_count":N,"adr_count":M,"ai_authored_count":K,"ts":"..."}` — start of each session
Timestamps are ISO-8601 UTC.
3. Compute the tripwires
Filter to the last 7 days. Then compute:
- **Edits / sessions** — counts of `event:edit` and `event:session`.
- **Registry growth** — last `registry_count` minus first (across either edit or session events). >0 means Discipline 1 is firing.
- **ADR growth** — last `adr_count` minus first (session events only).
- **AI-authored share trend** — first vs. last session percentage (`ai_authored_count / registry_count`, when registry_count>0).
- **Feedback pass rate** — `count(result:pass) / count(event:feedback)`.
- **FAIL → PASS rate** — for each feedback event with `result:fail`, look at the *next* feedback event for the *same* file. Count those that flipped to `pass`. Divide by total fails. Below 50% means Claude isn't reliably acting on hook output — the architectural alarm bell.
If there are fewer than 5 sessions in the window, say "need more data" and skip the verdict.
4. Report
One screen. No padding. Use `→` and `↑/↓` for trends. Example shape:
debt-ops metrics — last 7 days
─────────────────────────────────
edits : 142 (8 sessions, ~18 edits/session)
registry : +3
adrs : +1
ai-authored : 50% → 60% ↑
feedback ran : 89 times
pass rate : 88%
fail → pass rate: 80% (8/10)
verdict: ok
End with one judgment line:
- **ok** — registry growth >0 AND fail→pass rate ≥50%.
- **investigate: <reason>** — name the specific tripwire that tripped.
Don't
- Don't write to the log.
- Don't compute metrics not listed above.
- Don't guess at health when data is thin — say "need more data" instead.
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name: metrics
description: Print a debt-ops health summary from the metrics log, covering registration rate, hook feedback action rate, ADR creation, and AI-authored share. Use when the user asks for "debt-ops metrics", "debt health", "registry stats", or invokes /debt-ops:metrics. Read-only, never writes the log.
allowed-tools: Bash, Read
# Hidden from `npx skills` discovery — this copy ships in the Claude Code plugin (uses ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}); the portable skills/ copy is the one for the skills CLI.
metadata:
internal: true/debt-ops:metrics
Read the hidden metrics log and tell the user whether v1's tripwires are tripping.
1. Find the log
TOPLEVEL=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
REPO_HASH=$(printf '%s' "$TOPLEVEL" | shasum | cut -c1-12)
# Locate this repo's plugin cache. CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA is set in hook
# subprocesses but NOT in the skill's bash env, so glob the standard
# Claude Code plugin-data dirs and fall back to the legacy cache path.
CACHE_DIR=""
for D in \
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA:+"$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA/cache/$REPO_HASH"} \
"$HOME/.claude/plugins/data"/debt-ops*/cache/"$REPO_HASH" \
"$HOME/.cache/debt-ops/cache/$REPO_HASH"; do
[ -d "$D" ] && { CACHE_DIR="$D"; break; }
done
LOG="$CACHE_DIR/metrics.jsonl"
if [ -n "$CACHE_DIR" ] && [ -f "$LOG" ]; then
tail -n 500 "$LOG"
else
echo "MISSING: no metrics.jsonl found for repo hash $REPO_HASH"
fiIf the file is missing or empty, tell the user the hooks haven't fired yet in this repo and stop.
2. The log format
One JSON object per line, three event shapes:
- `{"event":"edit","file":"...","registry_count":N,"ts":"..."}` — every agent edit
- `{"event":"feedback","file":"...","result":"pass|fail","ts":"..."}` — every quality-check fire
- `{"event":"session","registry_count":N,"adr_count":M,"ai_authored_count":K,"ts":"..."}` — start of each session
Timestamps are ISO-8601 UTC.
3. Compute the tripwires
Filter to the last 7 days. Then compute:
- **Edits / sessions** — counts of `event:edit` and `event:session`.
- **Registry growth** — last `registry_count` minus first (across either edit or session events). >0 means Discipline 1 is firing.
- **ADR growth** — last `adr_count` minus first (session events only).
- **AI-authored share trend** — first vs. last session percentage (`ai_authored_count / registry_count`, when registry_count>0).
- **Feedback pass rate** — `count(result:pass) / count(event:feedback)`.
- **FAIL → PASS rate** — for each feedback event with `result:fail`, look at the *next* feedback event for the *same* file. Count those that flipped to `pass`. Divide by total fails. Below 50% means Claude isn't reliably acting on hook output — the architectural alarm bell.
If there are fewer than 5 sessions in the window, say "need more data" and skip the verdict.
4. Report
One screen. No padding. Use `→` and `↑/↓` for trends. Example shape:
debt-ops metrics — last 7 days ───────────────────────────────── edits : 142 (8 sessions, ~18 edits/session) registry : +3 adrs : +1 ai-authored : 50% → 60% ↑ feedback ran : 89 times pass rate : 88% fail → pass rate: 80% (8/10) verdict: ok
End with one judgment line:
- **ok** — registry growth >0 AND fail→pass rate ≥50%.
- **investigate: <reason>** — name the specific tripwire that tripped.
Don't
- Don't write to the log.
- Don't compute metrics not listed above.
- Don't guess at health when data is thin — say "need more data" instead.
Catches AI-introduced tech debt at write-time Works with any coding agent. Any stack. Two decades of tech-debt research, distilled into a plugin and validated across dozens of codebases.
Other skills on agentic-tech-debt.
- /add
Register a deferred decision in the debt registry. Trigger by judgment, not a marker scan, whenever a future reader would ask "why this way?": an unmade decision, stub, loosened type, bypassed check, swallowed error, a default picked "for now", or a TODO/FIXME/HACK/XXX marker.
Open skill - /init
Write or refresh the `## Tech debt operations` section in CLAUDE.md so a team shares one source of truth for debt-ops disciplines and cached quality commands. Idempotent. Only the managed section changes; other sections are untouched. Invoked explicitly via /debt-ops:init (solo
Open skill - /review
Audit the debt registry, rank survivors by churn × Fowler quadrant, surface a top-N list, then walk paydown on user follow-up. Use when the user asks to review debt, see what to pay down, work through entries, or invokes /debt-ops:review. Stale entries drop with `drop A,B,C`.
Open skill - /add
Register a deferred decision in the debt registry. Trigger by judgment, not a marker scan, whenever a future reader would ask "why this way?": an unmade decision, stub, loosened type, bypassed check, swallowed error, a default picked "for now", or a TODO/FIXME/HACK/XXX marker.
Open skill - /init
Write or refresh the "## Tech debt operations" section in AGENTS.md so a team shares one source of truth for debt-ops disciplines and cached quality commands. Idempotent. Only the managed section changes; other sections are untouched. Invoke explicitly via $init (solo users get
Open skill - /review
Audit the debt registry, rank survivors by churn × Fowler quadrant, surface a top-N list, then walk paydown on user follow-up. Use when the user asks to review debt, see what to pay down, work through entries, or invokes $review. Stale entries drop with "drop A,B,C".
Open skill

