Technical Debt in AI Agent Repositories Lives at the Boundaries

AI agent repositories create a different technical debt profile than traditional CRUD applications. In a standard web app, debt often shows up as large files, missing tests, unclear ownership, duplicated logic, stale dependencies, weak security controls, or architecture that makes changes expensive. Those still matter in AI repositories, but they are not the whole story. The most expensive debt often lives at the boundaries. Provider boundaries An agent project may integrate OpenAI...