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Technical Debt Planner

Turn technical debt into an evidence-backed portfolio of risks and sequenced repayment work.

Works withChatGPTClaude

Version 1.0.0

Use it for

  • Prioritise refactoring, upgrades or reliability work.
  • Make the case for paying down technical debt.

What you get

  • Each debt item with evidence and the cost of leaving it.
  • Options and trade-offs for fixing it.
  • A sequenced backlog with success measures.

A place to start

Example requests

Prioritise legacy-service debt from supplied incidents, support dates and change frequency; avoid made-up ROI.

Review my Technical Debt Planner output for gaps and unsafe assumptions.

Connect and use

This free tool is a set of written instructions, a checklist and a template that guide your AI assistant through the job. It works in any assistant and never calls our servers.

  1. Choose Copy instructions above, or view them first.
  2. ChatGPT or Claude: create a Project and paste them into the project instructions, so every chat in that project uses this tool. Or paste them at the start of a single chat.
  3. Ask your question or use an example request, and add the details it asks for.