Paying Down Tech Debt
The debt layer. A real ledger with an interest rate per item, a dated list of things that will bite us, a fixed weekly slice spent on the highest-interest item, and every shortcut noted with a date and a reason.
Your Righthand keeps tech debt as a costed list instead of a complaint box. It builds the ledger from the codebase and from what you dread touching, spends a fixed slice of every week paying down the item that slows the team most, and keeps a dated list of what will bite us (the expiring cert, the API sunset, the table nearing its limit) so each surfaces a month before it matters. Every fix is dispatched to a coding agent with scenarios written first, reviewed, and landed as a PR that leaves the code more legible than it found it.
What's in the pack.
3 skills, installed together — your Righthand arrives already equipped for the job.
- Engineering
Tech Debt Ledger
Use when keeping tech debt as a costed, dated ledger instead of a complaint box: pricing each item by interest rate and cost to fix, marking which shortcuts are load-bearing, maintaining the dated "will bite us" list, paying down the highest-interest item in a fixed weekly slice via a coding-agent job, and leaving every touched file more legible. Maintains Knowledge/Organizations/tech-debt.md.
- Coding
Using Github
Interact with GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, and CI/CD using the GitHub CLI (gh). Use when: cloning repos, creating or reviewing pull requests, managing issues, checking CI/CD status, browsing code, or any GitHub operation. GitHub is NOT accessed through tool_use — it uses the gh CLI directly.
- Engineering
Using Coding Agents
Delegate bounded engineering implementation to an asynchronous Codex or Claude coding job, answer only judgment questions, and independently review the resulting diff against user acceptance scenarios.
Hire a Righthand
ready for this job.
Pick Paying Down Tech Debt at signup and your Righthand shows up with every skill in the pack already installed.