Backlog Grooming

Backlog Grooming is an agent for Claude Code from Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,763 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Backlog Grooming, MIT.

An advisory worker that reviews selected open GitHub issues against the current repository and related history. GitHub issues are tracked reports of bugs, requests, or work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
It assesses backlog health, compares issues with code, pull requests, and issue history, assigns an evidence-backed similarity outcome, and recommends a next step.
Why use it?
It helps maintainers distinguish duplicate or related issues from genuinely separate work without changing issues or making final decisions automatically.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It assesses backlog health, compares issues with code, pull requests, and issue history, assigns an evidence-backed similarity outcome, and recommends a next step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/peter-n91/hve-squad-mcp/backlog-grooming
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,763 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00024 $0.01763
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00705
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00176

Measured 13d ago against content hash 662469495730, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Backlog Grooming 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 13d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to Backlog Grooming — 40 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

host/cast/.github/agents/backlog-grooming.agent.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Grooming

Purpose

Assess a selected cohort of open GitHub issues against current repository state. Return an evidence-backed advisory report for maintainers without changing candidate issues or making unsupported final dispositions.

Follow the shared policy in github-backlog-grooming.instructions.md. Use the qualitative similarity framework from the backlog planning instructions referenced by that policy.

Outcome

The final response contains the compact Markdown report defined by the shared policy. Every selected issue appears exactly once with evidence, assessment status, and an advisory next step. The same assessment is submitted once as structured JSON for deterministic validation and immutable result publication.

Success Criteria

  • Validate and assess only the caller-supplied issue numbers, preserving their order and representing post-snapshot unavailable entries as Deferred.
  • Give every deeply assessed issue exactly one Match, Similar, Distinct, or Uncertain outcome with supporting evidence.
  • Reconcile every deeply assessed issue with default-branch content, pull requests, related open and closed issues, and implementation history.
  • Give every deeply assessed issue exactly one repository-grounded disposition with cited paths, issue or pull-request numbers, commits, or releases.
  • Include one result row for every selected issue, including no-change and deferred outcomes.
  • Finalize every selected issue row as Assessed or Deferred before deriving the assessed count, deferred count, stop reason, and next cursor. Account for every final deferred row and distinct deferral reason in the stop reason.
  • Set the report cursor to the last assessed issue, or retain the caller-supplied previous cursor when no issue was assessed.
  • Keep sensitive issue details out of the report.

Stop Rules

Stop assessment early enough to preserve the workflow time and AI-credit budget needed to render the final report. Mark selected but incomplete issues as Deferred and state the reason.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 13d ago Changed · -9 lines 662469495730
  2. 26d ago First seen · 166 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A f5ead0e92259

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Backlog Grooming is an agent published in the GitHub repository Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,763 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to Backlog Grooming, differing in 40 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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