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team-tech-debt

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Unified team skill for tech debt identification and remediation. Scans codebase for tech debt, assesses severity, plans and executes fixes with validation. Uses team-worker agent architecture with roles/ for domain logic. Coordinator orchestrates pipeline, workers are team-worker agents. Triggers on "team tech debt".

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<required_reading> @~/.maestro/workflows/run-mode-lite.md </required_reading>

Team Tech Debt

Systematic tech debt governance: scan -> assess -> plan -> fix -> validate. Built on team-worker agent architecture — all worker roles share a single agent definition with role-specific Phase 2-4 loaded from roles/<role>/role.md.

Architecture

spawn_agent({ task_name: "team_tech_debt", message: "Execute skill team-tech-debt, args: task description" })
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         SKILL.md (this file) = Router
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     +--------------+--------------+
     |                             |
  no --role flag              --role <name>
     |                             |
  Coordinator                  Worker
  roles/coordinator/role.md    roles/<name>/role.md
     |
     +-- analyze → dispatch → spawn workers → STOP
                                    |
                    +-------+-------+-------+-------+
                    v       v       v       v       v
           [team-worker agents, each loads roles/<role>/role.md]
          scanner  assessor  planner  executor  validator

Role Registry

RolePathPrefixInner Loop
coordinatorroles/coordinator/role.md——
scannerroles/scanner/role.mdTDSCAN-*false
assessorroles/assessor/role.mdTDEVAL-*false
plannerroles/planner/role.mdTDPLAN-*false
executorroles/executor/role.mdTDFIX-*true
validatorroles/validator/role.mdTDVAL-*false

Role Router

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

  • Has --role <name> → Read roles/<name>/role.md, execute Phase 2-4
  • No --role → @roles/coordinator/role.md, execute entry router

Shared Constants

  • Session prefix: TD
  • Session path: {run_dir}/work/team/
  • CLI tools: maestro delegate --mode analysis (read-only), maestro delegate --mode write (modifications)
  • Message bus: mcp__maestro__team_msg(session_id=<run-id>, ...)
  • Max GC rounds: 3

Worker Spawn Template

Coordinator spawns workers using this template:

spawn_agent({
  subagent_type: "team-worker",
  description: "Spawn <role> worker for <task-id>",
  team_name: "tech-debt",
  name: "<role>",
  run_in_background: true,
  prompt: `## Role Assignment
role: <role>
role_spec: <skill_root>/roles/<role>/role.md
session: {run_dir}/work/team
session_id: <run-id>
team_name: tech-debt
requirement: <task-description>
inner_loop: <true|false>

## Progress Milestones
session_id: <run-id>
Report progress via team_msg at natural phase boundaries (context loaded -> core work done -> verification).
Report blockers immediately via team_msg type="blocker".
Report completion via team_msg type="task_complete" after final send_message.

Read role_spec file (@<skill_root>/roles/<role>/role.md) to load Phase 2-4 domain instructions.
Execute built-in Phase 1 (task discovery) -> role Phase 2-4 -> built-in Phase 5 (report).`
})

User Commands

CommandAction
check / statusView execution status graph
resume / continueAdvance to next step
--mode=scanRun scan-only pipeline (TDSCAN + TDEVAL)
--mode=targetedRun targeted pipeline (TDPLAN + TDFIX + TDVAL)
--mode=remediateRun full pipeline (default)
-y / --yesSkip confirmations

Specs Reference

Session Directory

{run_dir}/work/team/
├── .msg/
│   ├── messages.jsonl      # Team message bus
│   └── meta.json           # Pipeline config + role state snapshot
├── {run_dir}/outputs/scan/                   # Scanner output
├── {run_dir}/outputs/assessment/             # Assessor output
├── {run_dir}/outputs/plan/                   # Planner output
├── {run_dir}/outputs/fixes/                  # Executor output
├── {run_dir}/outputs/validation/             # Validator output
└── wisdom/                 # Cross-task knowledge

Error Handling

ScenarioResolution
Unknown commandError with available command list
Role not foundError with role registry
Session corruptionAttempt recovery, fallback to manual
Fast-advance conflictCoordinator reconciles on next callback
Completion action failsDefault to Keep Active
Scanner finds no debtReport clean codebase, skip to summary