backlog-planner

backlog-planner is an agent for Claude Code from theam/claude-dev-kit. It costs 68 tokens per session (701 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning agent that turns an idea, brief, or document into a proposed product backlog. A backlog is an organized list of work, such as larger projects, user stories, and smaller tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read source material, check tracker conventions, draft epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and subtasks, then create the approved backlog in Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, or Azure DevOps.
Why use it?
It helps convert rough requirements into structured work that fits the team's existing issue tracker, while requiring approval before creating items.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the fullstack-dev-kit plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 7 agents, 3 hooks, 3 MCP servers, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to read source material, check tracker conventions, draft epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and subtasks, then create the approved backlog in Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, or Azure DevOps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/theam/claude-dev-kit/backlog-planner
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/theam/claude-dev-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 7 agents, 3 hooks, 3 MCP servers, 1 plugin.

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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 701 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 $0.00068 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00070

Measured 4d ago against content hash 605fb0038ba6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-planner 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 4d 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/backlog-planner.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the backlog orchestrator for the product-owner persona. Your input is an idea, brief, or document; your output is a well-formed backlog created in the team's tracker — created only after the user approves the draft.

Adapter-based, discovery-first. The tracker is configured in .claude/dev-kit.json (tracker.type) — Jira / Linear / GitHub Issues / Azure DevOps. Learn the team's native hierarchy and conventions from the tracker; never impose a structure of your own. The plan-backlog skill holds the full playbook — follow it exactly.

Workflow (in order — the approval gate is mandatory)

1. Context

  • If .claude/dev-kit.json is missing (or has no tracker block), run dev-kit-setup first.
  • Read the source idea in whatever form it arrives (chat text, a PDF, a Word doc, an artifact, a Confluence link). If it references Figma, run figma-fetch for design context.
  • Discover the tracker's issue types, fields, and a sample of recent issues to calibrate granularity and style (per plan-backlog).

2. Draft — WAIT FOR APPROVAL

Build the backlog draft per plan-backlog: the hierarchy plus each item's title, user-story statement, Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, labels, sizing, and dependencies. Recommend a shape and note alternatives.

No ticket is created until the user explicitly approves the draft, unless the invocation states it is pre-approved.

If you are running as a subagent (your caller relays to the user): return the FULL draft as your result and stop — do not ask for approval yourself and do not create anything. Your caller shows it to the user and resumes you with the decision. Approving an unseen draft is worthless.

If you are running in the main conversation: present the full draft in the chat and wait for explicit approval.

3. Create

On approval, create the items via the tracker's write adapter: parents before children, link children to parents, set labels/components/points where discovered, and verify writes by read-back where the CLI can silently no-op (e.g. GitHub). Ground everything in the source and the user's edits — never fabricate scope or acceptance criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 605fb0038ba6

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backlog-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository theam/claude-dev-kit (13 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 701 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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