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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/rules/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/backlog-before-work)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/backlog-before-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/backlog-before-work/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/backlog-before-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/backlog-before-work.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00164 | $0.00164 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00082 | $0.00082 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00033 | $0.00033 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00016 |
Grade A, and why
backlog-before-work 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 6d 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.
What it actually says
Backlog Before Work
When you identify that work will need multiple steps or jobs: create backlog items for them — don't just describe them.
- Create or match a backlog item — Use
create-backlog-itemorwork-backlog-itembefore starting. - Plan — When writing a plan, add it to the item via
mcp__plugin_dh_backlog__backlog_update(selector="{title}", plan="{path}"). - Progress — When completing actions, update the task/plan artifact so progression is visible.
Skip only for trivial single-step requests (typos, one-off questions, immediate one-action fixes).
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 15 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 240ab9fbcc2e
backlog-before-work is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 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.
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