Agentic Tech Debt
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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Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.
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