backlog-prioritize

backlog-prioritize is a command for Claude Code from CrashBytes/claude-role-skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for ranking unfinished product or engineering work, called a backlog, using a defined scoring framework. It supports RICE, MoSCoW, WSJF, and Value versus Effort methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sort backlog items, compare competing features, identify quick wins, separate must-have work from optional work, and choose priorities when a project-management connection is available or when items are provided manually.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide what to work on first instead of relying on a long, unordered task list. The chosen method makes factors such as user reach, value, urgency, risk, and effort explicit.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the role-based-skills plugin — 7 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to sort backlog items, compare competing features, identify quick wins, separate must-have work from optional work, and choose priorities when a project-management connection is available or when items are provided manually.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/crashbytes/claude-role-skills/backlog-prioritize
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CrashBytes/claude-role-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install role-based-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00016 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 8d ago against content hash ae1781beed93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-prioritize 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 8d 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.

commands/backlog-prioritize.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Backlog Prioritization

Prioritize backlog items using a structured framework.

Arguments

Framework or context: $ARGUMENTS

Workflow

  1. Select framework

    • If specified, use the requested framework
    • Default to RICE (most data-driven)
    • Available: RICE, MoSCoW, WSJF, Value vs Effort
  2. Gather backlog items

    • If a project management MCP server is connected, fetch the current backlog
    • If not, ask the user to list their backlog items
  3. Apply the framework

    RICE:

    • Reach: How many users affected per quarter?
    • Impact: Minimal (0.25), Low (0.5), Medium (1), High (2), Massive (3)
    • Confidence: Low (50%), Medium (80%), High (100%)
    • Effort: Person-months
    • Score = (Reach × Impact × Confidence) / Effort

    MoSCoW:

    • Must Have: Required for the release to be viable
    • Should Have: Important but not critical
    • Could Have: Nice to have
    • Won't Have: Explicitly out of scope for now

    WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First):

    • Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction / Job Size
    • Use Fibonacci scale (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) for each factor

    Value vs Effort:

    • Score value 1-10 and effort 1-10
    • Quadrants: Quick Wins (high value, low effort) → Major Projects → Fill-ins → Avoid
  4. Output

    • Ranked list with scores
    • Visualization of the ranking (table format)
    • Top 5 recommendations with rationale
    • Items that need more information before they can be scored
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. 8d ago First seen · 54 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A ae1781beed93

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backlog-prioritize is a command published in the GitHub repository CrashBytes/claude-role-skills (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.