Technical debt management

Make debt visible, decide deliberately when to take it, cap it and schedule repayment.

Use when
Any code or low-code solution that will live beyond the project.
Avoid when
Throwaway prototypes.
Source
Cunningham (1992); Fowler debt quadrant (2009)
Level
B · established practice
For agents · MCP
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