Tech Debt Register

Productivity REST API MCP

Analyze a technical debt register and return the stakeholder numbers: active vs resolved counts, total hours to fix, weekly "interest" cost in hours, payoff weeks at a given weekly budget, breakeven weeks, counts by category and severity, the top-5 highest-interest items, a severity/effort matrix (quick wins, strategic, low priority, time sink), and an executive-summary paragraph. Each item has a category (code, architecture, testing, documentation, security, performance), a severity 1-5, effort_to_fix in hours, interest_rate in hours lost per week, and a status (active, resolved, wont_fix).

This page documents the MCP tool findutils:tech_debt_register. See the REST reference →

Use in the browser View as Markdown

Call it over MCP

Tool name findutils:tech_debt_register · no API keys · 120 requests/min per IP

Claude Code

claude mcp add findutils --transport http https://mcp.findutils.com/

Claude Desktop — claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "findutils": {
      "url": "https://mcp.findutils.com/"
    }
  }
}

Raw JSON-RPC (any MCP client) — verified example

curl -X POST https://mcp.findutils.com/ \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "tools/call",
    "params": {
      "name": "tech_debt_register",
      "arguments": {
        "items": [
          {
            "title": "Flaky login tests",
            "category": "testing",
            "severity": 4,
            "effort_to_fix": 6,
            "interest_rate": 3
          }
        ],
        "weekly_budget": 8
      }
    }
  }'

Input schema

Argument	Type	Required	Description
items	array	yes	Debt items: { title, category, severity (1-5), effort_to_fix (hours), interest_rate (hours/week, default 0), status (default "active"), description }.
weekly_budget	number	no	Hours per week available for paying down debt. Default 8. Default: 8.

Example arguments (verified)

{
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Flaky login tests",
      "category": "testing",
      "severity": 4,
      "effort_to_fix": 6,
      "interest_rate": 3
    }
  ],
  "weekly_budget": 8
}

Also a REST endpoint

The same tool answers plain HTTP at POST /api/tools/tech-debt-register/execute — no key, 60 requests/min.

Open the REST reference for Tech Debt Register →

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