grooming

grooming is a command for coding agents from openshift-eng/ai-helpers. It costs 15 tokens per session (2,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Jira command that reviews newly created bugs and user stories, or issues assigned to a sprint, and turns them into a structured backlog-grooming agenda. Backlog grooming is the process of clarifying and prioritizing upcoming work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare grooming meetings, assess new bugs, organize technical debt, and summarize story points for selected work.
Why use it?
It gathers priorities, complexity, dependencies, and missing assignments before the meeting. This gives the team a clearer list to discuss during sprint planning or review.

Command

Part of the jira plugin — 13 skills, 17 commands shipped together

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/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/grooming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift-eng/ai-helpers

Or install jira, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 17 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for grooming

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/grooming.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/grooming)
Your own site
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,360 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 $0.00015 $0.02360
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01180
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00236

Measured 2d ago against content hash fc2593e0afcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • grooming — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/jira/commands/grooming.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Name

jira:grooming

Synopsis

/jira:grooming [project-filter] [time-period] [--component component-name] [--label label-name] [--type issue-type] [--status status] [--story-points]

Description

The jira:grooming command helps teams prepare for backlog grooming meetings. It automatically collects bugs and user stories created within a specified time period OR assigned to a specific sprint, analyzes their priority, complexity, and dependencies, and generates structured grooming meeting agendas.

This command is particularly useful for:

  • Backlog organization before sprint planning
  • Sprint-specific grooming sessions
  • Sprint-specific grooming sessions with story point summaries
  • Sprint retrospectives analyzing completed work
  • Regular requirement grooming meetings
  • Priority assessment of new bugs
  • Technical debt organization and planning

Key Features

  • Automated Data Collection – Collect and categorize issues within specified time periods or sprints by type (Bug, Story, Task, Epic), extract key information (priority, components, labels), and identify unassigned or incomplete issues.

  • Story Point Analysis – When --story-points flag is used, extract and analyze story points for all issues, calculate totals by status, priority, and type, and provide velocity metrics for sprint retrospectives.

  • Status Filtering – Filter issues by status (e.g., Closed, Done, In Progress, Open) using the --status flag to focus on specific workflow states for sprint reviews or retrospectives.

  • Intelligent Analysis – Evaluate issue complexity based on historical data, identify related or duplicate issues, analyze business value and technical impact, and detect potential dependencies.

  • Agenda Generation – Build a structured, actionable meeting outline organized by priority and type, with discussion points, decision recommendations, estimation references, and risk alerts.

Implementation

The jira:grooming command runs in three main phases:

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 2d ago First seen · 265 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A fc2593e0afcf

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grooming is a command published in the GitHub repository openshift-eng/ai-helpers (116 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 2,360 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 2026-09-03.