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Journey: pay down legacy technical debt v1.0.0

Use this resource to reduce the technical debt of an aged codebase without a rewrite

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Install with the CLI

In a terminal, from the folder you want:

npx --yes palatekit@latest install legacy-codebase-debt-paydown

With no option, the skill goes to ~/.agents/skills/; add --agent claude-code (or codex, cursor…) to target an agent.

First time: connect the CLI with

npx --yes palatekit@latest login

The agent runs eight phases: a safety net at the change points, named refactorings, legibility, deep modules, dependency boundaries, team habits and resilience. The system keeps shipping during the clean-up, and each step is recorded in docs/.

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Updated November 2, 2026

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What you get

  • SKILL.md: eight-phase journey and operating rules
  • references/artifact-templates.md: testing and tech debt document templates

Good fit for

  • A large codebase is feared by the team
  • You want to avoid a full rewrite

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    Tags

    • technical debt
    • legacy
    • refactoring

    About

    You say

    “Help me clean up the billing module of our app without rewriting it.”

    Card for the “Journey: pay down legacy technical debt” skill

    Skill published by wondelai under the MIT license, delivered in its original version.

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    How to use it

    1. Install the skill in your agent's skills folder
    2. Ask your agent to reduce the technical debt of an aged codebase without a rewrite
    3. Review and adjust the result

    Content preview

    Files

    • LICENSE1.1 KB
    • NOTICE-PALATEKIT.md0.5 KB
    • references/artifact-templates.md2.4 KB
    • SKILL.md24.8 KB

    Origin and licence

    Listed unmodified

    Author
    wondelai
    Source
    github.com/wondelai/skills/tree/c172996495bed0fcd26896a9416b2093fd7073f0/remove-technical-debt
    Licence
    MIT

    Notice

    « remove-technical-debt » (wondelai, MIT) livré dans sa version d'origine : fiche en français et en anglais par PalateKit.

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