delegate-backlog

delegate-backlog is a command for Claude Code from theam/claude-dev-kit. It costs 55 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for sending an already-approved GitHub issue backlog to GitHub Copilot coding agent asynchronously. It creates one branch and pull request per issue, then reviews the returned pull requests without merging them automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Delegating an approved GitHub backlog, preparing each issue with its requirements and project instructions, and applying pull-request review and fixes afterward.
Why use it?
It lets several approved stories be worked on in parallel, while making clear that the usual in-session checks do not run during delegation. Those checks are revisited during review.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the fullstack-dev-kit plugin — 1 skill, 5 commands, 9 agents, 3 hooks, 3 MCP servers, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Delegating an approved GitHub backlog, preparing each issue with its requirements and project instructions, and applying pull-request review and fixes afterward.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/theam/claude-dev-kit/delegate-backlog
Install

Getting it into your agent

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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, 5 commands, 9 agents, 3 hooks, 3 MCP servers, 1 plugin.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 540 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 $0.00055 $0.00540
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00216
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 17d ago against content hash 039623e8bcd3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegate-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 17d 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/delegate-backlog.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Delegate the approved backlog referenced in the arguments to an async coding agent: $ARGUMENTS

Follow the delegate-backlog skill. This is the async, throughput-first alternative to /work-story — it fans an already-approved backlog out to GitHub Copilot coding agent (one branch/PR per issue) and then re-applies the kit's quality via pr-review/fix-pr on the PRs that come back.

Rules:

  • Approved backlog only. Delegate the issues the user approved (usually plan-backlog's output). If none is referenced, ask — don't invent scope.
  • GitHub only in v1 (Copilot coding agent). If the tracker isn't GitHub, say async delegation isn't available for it yet.
  • Be honest about the trade-off up front: the kit's in-session gates (plan approval, coverage/security/e2e) don't run on the delegated path — they're re-applied on review. Never present a delegated PR as if the kit's gates produced it.

Run it

  1. Approval gate — show which issues go to which agent and the trade-off; delegate nothing until the user says yes.
  2. Enrich each issue with a self-contained brief (AC, repo conventions, test commands, branch naming, provenance). You may delegate the discovery/enrichment groundwork to the backlog-delegator subagent.
  3. Verify Copilot coding agent is enabled (query the repo's assignable actors) — never fabricate a trigger; if it isn't enabled, stop and say how to enable it.
  4. Delegate each issue by assigning it to Copilot (verify the current mechanism), confirm by read-back, and capture the resulting draft PR from the issue's linked PRs — never invent a PR number.
  5. Track issue → branch → PR in a run manifest (a comment on the parent/epic issue).
  6. Review loop — as draft PRs appear, run pr-review then fix-pr on each (respecting fix-pr's open-PR guard); record verdicts in the manifest.
  7. Report from the manifest with provenance, and never auto-merge — merging is the user's explicit per-PR call.
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. 17d ago First seen · 24 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 039623e8bcd3

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delegate-backlog is a command published in the GitHub repository theam/claude-dev-kit (15 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 540 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-29.