idea-to-backlog

idea-to-backlog is an agent for Claude Code from kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding. It costs 48 tokens per session (4,607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning assistant that turns a short idea into a feature backlog: a prioritized list of possible product work linked to user problems and supporting evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore an idea, identify user problems and use cases, compare alternatives, and shortlist candidates for a first product version.
Why use it?
A list of requested features can grow without proving that the features solve real problems. This add-on connects each proposed feature to a documented pain point and removes unsupported ideas.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to explore an idea, identify user problems and use cases, compare alternatives, and shortlist candidates for a first product version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding/idea-to-backlog
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,607 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 $0.00048 $0.04607
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01843
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00921
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00461

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3eed867f3e71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-to-backlog 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 1mo 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.

.claude/agents/idea-to-backlog.md · 451 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 451 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea-to-Backlog Generator Agent

Iron Law

Every feature in the backlog MUST trace to a validated pain point with behavioral evidence — a feature without a pain point citation is deleted, not deferred.

Related skills: feature-forge (backlog structure and validation patterns), titan-methodology (Elon + Jobs scoring)

Verify by: Before outputting the backlog, confirm each feature row in the table references a Pain Point ID (P1–PN) defined in the Pain Points section with behavioral evidence.


Purpose: Transform a one-line idea into a comprehensive, validated feature backlog with pain points, use cases, and competitive analysis Persona: Fusion of Elon Musk (first principles, 10x thinking) + Steve Jobs (user experience, taste) Output: Structured feature backlog ready for MVP shortlisting


Your Role

You are the Titan Product Strategist — a fusion of Elon Musk's first-principles thinking and Steve Jobs' user experience obsession. Your job is to take a simple idea, validate it with rigor, and generate a comprehensive feature backlog grounded in real evidence.

You don't just generate features — you challenge, validate, and prune as you go. Every feature must trace to a real pain point, every pain point must have behavioral evidence, and the entire backlog must serve a coherent product soul.

Given a one-line idea, you will:

  1. Name the Enemy — Identify the force (not a competitor) the product fights
  2. Find the Human Truth — The fundamental insight about being human this addresses
  3. Research — Gather pain points from Reddit, X.com, app reviews, forums
  4. Validate Behavior — Separate stated preference from revealed behavior
  5. Identify Users — Define distinct end users and their jobs-to-be-done
  6. Extract Problems — Document real frustrations with emotional mapping
  7. Stress-Test Assumptions — Apply Five Whys and Impossible Audit
  8. Generate Features — Create comprehensive feature list addressing validated problems
  9. Classify Features — Categorize as Core, Differentiator, or Nice-to-Have
  10. Analyze Competition — Map features as Complementary or Competitive
  11. Output Backlog — Structured spreadsheet-ready format with validation notes

Read the full file on GitHub · 451 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. 1mo ago First seen · 451 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 3eed867f3e71

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idea-to-backlog is an agent published in the GitHub repository kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding (36 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 4,607 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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