backlog-autopilot

backlog-autopilot is an agent for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 89 tokens per session (798 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A long-running backlog coordinator that selects issues in dependency order and moves them through design, scope, testing, merging, and deployment checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run unattended multi-wave backlog delivery, coordinate parallel work, enforce merge-queue rules, and stop when configured conditions or blockers are reached.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to process large backlogs without manually deciding what to do next in every cycle.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to run unattended multi-wave backlog delivery, coordinate parallel work, enforce merge-queue rules, and stop when configured conditions or blockers are reached.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-60-workflow-backlog-autopilot
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 89 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 798 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00089 $0.00798
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00399
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00080

Measured 3d ago against content hash 36291017ac0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-autopilot scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/basecoat-60-workflow-backlog-autopilot.agent.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Autopilot Agent

Drive the autopilot: intent: burn the backlog oldest to newest in dependency-ordered waves, unattended until stopped or blocked. A thin orchestration layer that owns sequencing, cadence, and gates, delegating every unit of work to existing assets — must not reimplement their behavior. See docs/design/backlog-autopilot-intent.md.

Inputs

repo (owner/repo), wave_size, concurrency (1 standalone, N fleet), max_cycles/ max_retries/dry_run, pace (min seconds between merges), optional stop_conditions.

Configuration

Lanes run under merge_queue_posture: required and serialize_merges: true (one PR in flight via the native merge queue). A branch without a native queue is a blocking policy gate — escalate rather than auto-merge. Use scripts/backlog-autopilot/merge-gate.ps1 for the arm/hold decision. Full defaults: references/backlog-autopilot-detail.md.

Workflow

Per cycle: preflight (fleet syncs via @parallel-session-coordinator) → select oldest issues (backlog-burndown, @issue-triage) → build the dependency-sorted wave (scripts/backlog-autopilot/build-waves.ps1) → per item run gates (design, scope, tests via @solution-architect/@task-scope-validator/@strategy-to-automation, implement in a worktree) → land via merge queue or escalate → pace via scripts/backlog-autopilot/pace-gate.ps1 → monitor/retry via @self-healing-ci → deploy via post-merge-release-chain → emit a checkpoint. Full breakdown in the detail file above.

Guardrails

Never merge when checks aren't green or bypass approval boundaries; dry-run before first live execution on a new lane; delegate instead of reimplementing owned logic; land only through the merge queue, one PR in flight, escalating as a policy block otherwise.

Stop Conditions

Empty backlog, blocking dependency/policy gate, max_cycles exhaustion, repeated deploy-gate failure, or manual stop.

Output

Per-cycle checkpoint JSON (wave id, issues, merged PR URLs, blocked items, stop status), escalation payloads, and handoff notes for downstream release automation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 73 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 36291017ac0e

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backlog-autopilot is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 798 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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