Alternatives to brooks-debt
brooks-debt is an agent skill by hyhmrright: Tech debt assessment that identifies, classifies, and prioritizes maintainability problems — helping teams build a refactoring roadmap — drawing on twelve…. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match brooks-debt and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. brooks-sweep leads the list (repository has 1.5K stars; active in the last 30 days). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with brooks-debt.
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Tech debt assessment that identifies, classifies, and prioritizes maintainability problems — helping teams build a refactoring roadmap — drawing on twelve…
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches brooks-debt (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1brooks-sweep
hyhmrright
Full-sweep mode: runs a unified analysis across all quality dimensions — code decay, architecture, tech debt, and test quality — then applies fixes directly…
- Repository has 1.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.5KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2brooks-health
hyhmrright
Combined codebase health dashboard that scores a project across all four quality dimensions — PR quality, architecture, tech debt, and test quality — in a…
- Repository has 1.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.5KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3refactor-clean
dzhng
Refactor cleanly instead of layering sediment.
- Repository has 1.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.4KLast active Oct 14, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4well-formed
luongnv89
Review pull request diffs for code smells, style issues, and safety problems before merging.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 959Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5component-refactoring
Charlie85270
Refactor high-complexity React components in Dify frontend.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 353Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6code-reviewer
https://github.com/Jeffallan
Analyzes code diffs and files to identify bugs, security vulnerabilities (SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization), code smells, N+1 queries, naming…
- Larger repository (12K stars)
★ 12KLast active Oct 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7architectural-analysis
Pedro Nauck
Audit architecture, dead code, duplication, type confusion, and code smells across a codebase.
★ 641Last active Sep 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 8refactoring-analysis
Pedro Nauck
Audit code quality and architectural health or plan refactoring using Fowler code smells and techniques; write prioritized findings to docs/_refacs/.
- Supports Python
★ 641Last active Sep 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 9go-refactoring
eduardo-sl
Safe refactoring workflow for Go: behavior-preserving steps, compiler-checked renames, extracting packages, breaking circular dependencies, and strangler…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 82Last active Oct 14, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10mstar-audit
btspoony
Audit or survey a codebase into an evidence-backed, prioritized review report (read-only): bugs, security, perf, test gaps, tech debt, DX, a PR/branch/diff…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 64Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11repo-graph-impact
James-Chahwan
Blast radius before a change — everything a node affects (forward) or that depends on it (backward), ranked and located, with likely-dead code flagged.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 87Last active Oct 2, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12dead-code
kaeawc
Use this skill to detect and clean up dead code in this repo, starting with the project’s TypeScript dead-code scripts and validating that removals do not…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 52Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet