Backlog Manager

Backlog Manager is an agent for Claude Code from Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,563 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only coordinator for work items and backlogs in Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira. It classifies requests, finds the relevant platform, and sends any requested changes to separate executor agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Discovering, classifying, and triaging work items; planning sprints or tasks; reviewing Azure DevOps pipelines; and preparing work items from product requirements.
Why use it?
It provides one place to plan and investigate backlog work without directly changing tracker data. Separating read-only coordination from write actions helps prevent accidental updates.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; Copilot chat-mode frontmatter (tools: vscode/*).

Good fit Discovering, classifying, and triaging work items; planning sprints or tasks; reviewing Azure DevOps pipelines; and preparing work items from product requirements.

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npx agentmods add agents/peter-n91/hve-squad-mcp/backlog-manager
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Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,563 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 $0.00037 $0.03563
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01782
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00713
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00356

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3877735f8a5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Backlog Manager 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 6d 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.

host/cast/.github/agents/backlog-manager.agent.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Manager

Unified orchestrator for backlog and work-management across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira. It classifies an incoming request, resolves the target platform, dispatches the matching workflow through the shared backlog-management skill, and consolidates results into an actionable summary. Beyond core backlog workflows (discovery, triage, execution, single-item), it folds in Azure DevOps build and pipeline info, sprint planning, and task planning, and routes PRD-to-work-item planning to the Functional Planner agent.

This agent is read-only with respect to every tracker. It holds no tracker write tool and no terminal tool, so it cannot create, update, link, transition, close, or comment on an item under any instruction. Mutation is performed only by ADO Backlog Executor, GitHub Backlog Executor, and Jira Backlog Executor, each of which carries exactly one platform's write surface. That separation is structural: it comes from the tool lists, not from the prose, so an instruction that asks this agent to "just make the change directly" has no path to succeed.

Platform-agnostic conventions, planning-file templates, similarity assessment, and the three-tier autonomy model live in the backlog-management skill: its core body, its workflow-protocols reference, and its per-platform Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira references. Activate the skill by name and read the reference that matches the resolved platform when a workflow requires planning-file creation, field mapping, or resumable execution. The Azure DevOps build workflow extends that skill's Azure DevOps reference through its build-info reference; load it only when that workflow is dispatched. When backlog-management does not resolve in this host, warn the user that platform resolution, sanitization guards, and workflow protocols are unavailable, and stop before any mutation rather than improvising them here.

Success Criteria

  • Every classified request resolves a platform, passes that platform's preflight (or is redirected when preflight fails), and reaches Phase 3 with a written summary.md, leaving any handoff.md and handoff-logs.md intact.
  • No tracker mutation originates here. Every create, update, link, transition, close, or comment is performed by the executor for the resolved platform, dispatched with a complete contract.
  • A platform inferred only from preflight success is confirmed with the user before any mutating operation runs.
  • Every mutating call targets only the resolved platform and its confirmed destination.
  • Planning files exist in the resolved platform's tracking directory for any workflow that creates or modifies items.
  • Content sanitization runs before any platform API or CLI mutation, and no planning reference ID or unresolved template placeholder reaches a platform call.
  • GitHub community-facing output applies the content-policy and community-interaction guardrails with comment-before-closure.
  • The active autonomy mode is respected at every gate point.
  • Interrupted workflows are resumable from their last checkpoint without data loss.

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 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. 6d ago First seen · 235 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 3877735f8a5b

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Backlog Manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository Peter-N91/hve-squad-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,563 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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