kitchenloop-backlog

A backlog-maintenance workflow for software tickets. A backlog is the collection of open work items; this workflow scores them by urgency, ease of access, and impact, then maintains a smaller ready-to-work queue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan open tickets, promote the best candidates into the to-do queue, restore bugs whose fix pull requests were closed without merging, and retire stale tickets.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually sort every open ticket and helps prevent the ready queue from becoming empty, overloaded, stale, or poorly balanced.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/0xagentkitchen/kitchenloop/kitchenloop-backlog
Any agent
npx skills add 0xagentkitchen/kitchenloop --skill kitchenloop-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xagentkitchen/kitchenloop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,555 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 $0.01555
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00777
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00155

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5008a87c48fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kitchenloop-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.

skills/kitchenloop-backlog/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KitchenLoop: Backlog

Scan the backlog, evaluate tickets, promote to todo queue, maintain balance.

Triggers

  • kitchenloop backlog
  • groom backlog
  • promote tickets

Overview

The Backlog phase keeps the todo queue healthy. It scans all open tickets, scores them on urgency/accessibility/impact, promotes the best candidates to the todo queue, and retires stale tickets. The goal is to maintain a todo queue of 5-8 tickets with good category balance.


Procedure

Step 1: Read Context

  1. Load kitchenloop.yaml -- read ticketing, paths, and runtime.
  2. Read loop state at paths.loop_state for iteration context.
  3. Read paths.patterns for known patterns that inform prioritization.

Step 1.5: Abandoned Fix PR Scan

Scan for tickets whose fix PRs were closed without merging — these bugs are still live:

gh pr list --state closed --limit 50 \
  --json number,title,body,state,mergedAt \
  --jq '.[] | select(.mergedAt == null)'

For each closed-not-merged PR:

  1. Extract the ticket ID from the PR title/body (look for #N references)
  2. Check if the ticket is still open (todo/in_progress/in_review)
  3. If yes: promote back to "todo" with comment: "Fix PR #N was closed without merging. Bug is still live on main. Re-promoting for execution."
  4. If the ticket was already closed: reopen it

This prevents bugs from going unfixed when AI-generated fix PRs are silently abandoned.

Step 2: Inventory Current State

Count tickets by state:
# Todo queue
gh issue list --label "{ticketing.github.state_labels.todo}" --json number,title,labels

# In progress
gh issue list --label "{ticketing.github.state_labels.in_progress}" --json number,title

# In review
gh issue list --label "{ticketing.github.state_labels.in_review}" --json number,title

# Full backlog (unlabeled state)
gh issue list --state open --json number,title,labels,createdAt,body --limit 200

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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 · 200 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5008a87c48fa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kitchenloop-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xagentkitchen/kitchenloop (23 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,555 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 2026-08-30.

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