install-github-backlog

install-github-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,454 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A GitHub Issues workflow for managing development tasks inside an AI agent's repository. GitHub Issues are tracked work items attached to a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view backlogs and roadmaps, organise issues, run a supervised sprint, or process tasks autonomously in a work loop.
Why use it?
It turns an unstructured list of coding work into a process for prioritising, claiming, planning, implementing, and closing tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent-dev plugin — 47 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to view backlogs and roadmaps, organise issues, run a supervised sprint, or process tasks autonomously in a work loop.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Abilityai/abilities
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,454 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00043 $0.02454
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00982
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00245

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6e5fc8634347, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

install-github-backlog scanned grade D with 2 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 1mo 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

ls .claude/skills/ 2>/dev/null

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf ".claude/skills/$s" && cp -R "$SRC" ".claude/skills/$s"
plugins/agent-dev/skills/add-backlog/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install GitHub Backlog

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — the top entry of metadata.changelog above — e.g. install-github-backlog vX.Y — recent: <summary>. Then proceed.

Add GitHub Issues task management to any Claude Code agent. This wizard copies the plugin's standalone workflow skills into your agent's .claude/skills/ directory — the installed agent has no runtime plugin dependency, and the skills are the same files Trinity instances assign from the trinity-skills library.

What you get:

Skill Purpose
/backlog Priority-ordered view of open issues
/roadmap Strategic view grouped by skill area
/groom Tag issues with skill:* labels, set priorities
/claim Grab the next task, mark it in-progress
/autoplan Analyze a skill issue before implementing
/close Close an issue without a git commit
/commit Stage skill file changes, commit, close issue
/sprint Human-supervised develop cycle (one issue end-to-end)
/work-loop Autonomous processing (schedulable on Trinity)

The agent's repository becomes its task queue. Issues = work items. Skills = the units of work.


Process

Step 1: Verify Environment

git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null

If not a git repo or no GitHub remote, stop and explain: "This skill requires a GitHub repository. Initialize with git init and gh repo create."

Step 2: Verify gh CLI

gh auth status 2>&1 | head -3

If not authenticated, tell user to run ! gh auth login and re-run.

Step 3: Check for Existing Skills

ls .claude/skills/ 2>/dev/null

List which of the target skills already exist. If any do, ask:

  • Overwrite — Replace with fresh versions
  • Skip existing — Only create missing ones
  • Cancel — Abort

Step 4: Ask Workflow Preferences

Use AskUserQuestion:

  • Header: "Work Loop Schedule"
  • Question: "How should the autonomous work-loop run?"
  • Options:
    1. Daily at 9am (0 9 * * *) — recommended
    2. Every 4 hours (0 */4 * * *)
    3. Manual only (no schedule)

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 1mo ago Changed · -515 lines scan B → D 6e5fc8634347
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 739 lines · 43 tokens per session scan B 99536275e52e

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install-github-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,454 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (enumerates other installed skills, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.