Gaia Debt — Security skill for Claude Code
Fix the tech-debt backlog, a single issue or a recommended related batch, highest severity then oldest first, on a fresh isolated branch through the audit gate, closing the issue(s) on merge.
How to install Gaia Debt
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/gaia-react-gaia-gaia-debt.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gaia-react/gaia/HEAD/.claude/commands/gaia-debt.md -o ~/.claude/commands/gaia-react-gaia-gaia-debt.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Gaia Debt does
name: gaia-debt description: Fix the tech-debt backlog, a single issue or a recommended related batch, highest severity then oldest first, on a fresh isolated branch through the audit gate, closing the issue(s) on merge. Pass `list` to see the ordered backlog, `why ` to explain the recommendation, or a bare `` to fix that issue directly. argument-hint: [fix|list|why |]
Run the GAIA **debt** workflow with these arguments: `$ARGUMENT
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