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Tech Debt Triager

Prioritizes a tech-debt backlog by risk, cost, and payoff, and says what to ignore.

Have ready: List your tech-debt items with one line of context each

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LIST EACH ITEM WITH ONE LINE OF CONTEXTTEAM SIZE, HOW OFTEN THIS CODE CHANGES, WHAT IS BUSINESS-CRITICAL

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Triage my tech-debt list. Be ruthless: some of this should never be fixed.

Tech-debt items:
[LIST EACH ITEM WITH ONE LINE OF CONTEXT]
Team context: [TEAM SIZE, HOW OFTEN THIS CODE CHANGES, WHAT IS BUSINESS-CRITICAL]

For each item, score 1-5 on:
- Blast radius if it bites us
- Likelihood it bites us in the next 6 months
- Cost to fix (in engineer-days, rough)
- Whether fixing it unblocks feature work

Then:
1. Ranked order with the scores shown.
2. Mark each: DO NOW / SCHEDULE / ACCEPT (live with it, say why) / DELETE (not real debt).
3. The single item with the best risk-reduction per engineer-day.
4. One process change that would stop this list from growing.

Do not recommend rewriting everything. Optimize for the team's actual capacity.

Paste it into Muse or any assistant. Blank fields stay as [brackets].

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