backlog

A command for reviewing the project's backlog, meaning the list of planned and unfinished work. It checks planning files first and then GitHub Issues, which are tracked tasks or bug reports in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review the current sprint, high-priority tasks, later plans, and ideas. If no backlog exists, it can offer to create one from available project information.
Why use it?
It gives developers one organized view of upcoming work instead of making them search several files and GitHub manually. It also groups items by urgency.

Command

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ds1/boilerplate.md/backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ds1/boilerplate.md
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00222
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00111
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00022

Measured 2d ago against content hash 10e03e6cb8e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Review Backlog

Review the project backlog and upcoming work.

Steps

  1. Check for backlog in this priority order:

    • _planning/backlog.md
    • _planning/sprint.md
    • STATUS.md (the "Up Next" section)
    • GitHub Issues (run gh issue list --limit 20 if the above don't exist)
  2. Present the backlog organized by priority:

    • Current Sprint — what's committed for this cycle
    • High Priority — should be done soon
    • Medium Priority — planned but not urgent
    • Low Priority / Ideas — nice to have
  3. If the user asks to reprioritize, update the source file accordingly.

  4. If no backlog exists anywhere, offer to create _planning/backlog.md from the user's input or by scanning STATUS.md and GitHub Issues.


By @ds1boilerplate.md

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. 2d ago First seen · 26 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 10e03e6cb8e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog is a command published in the GitHub repository ds1/boilerplate.md (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 222 tokens. 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.