sm-impediment-log

sm-impediment-log is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abrahamFerga/scrum-skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Scrum Master workflow for recording and tracking impediments—problems outside the team's control that slow or block Sprint work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps log new impediments, review open or overdue blockers, assign Azure DevOps work items, and mark resolved problems.
Why use it?
It makes blockers visible, gives them an owner and target date, and helps prevent unresolved problems from being forgotten.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It helps log new impediments, review open or overdue blockers, assign Azure DevOps work items, and mark resolved problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abrahamferga/scrum-skills/sm-impediment-log
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.

Any agent
npx skills add abrahamFerga/scrum-skills --skill sm-impediment-log
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abrahamFerga/scrum-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,539 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 $0.00122 $0.01539
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00154

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2651fe3a6288, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sm-impediment-log 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 11d 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/sm-impediment-log/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Impediment Log

Purpose

An impediment is anything outside the team's control that slows or blocks Sprint progress. The Scrum Master's job is to make them visible, get them assigned, and get them resolved — fast. An unlogged impediment is invisible to stakeholders. An impediment with no owner and no target date is a blocker in waiting. This skill makes logging fast and tracking honest.


Tool detection

  1. Check for active mcp__azure-devops__* tools → $PM_TOOL = ado
  2. If neither ADO nor Jira → $PM_TOOL = manual

Mode detection

The user is either:

  • Logging a new impediment — phrases like "log this", "we have a blocker", "add an impediment"
  • Reviewing open impediments — phrases like "what's open", "show impediments", "any overdue blockers"
  • Resolving/updating an impediment — phrases like "that's resolved", "update the blocker", "close this impediment"

Handle each mode below.


Mode A — Log a new impediment

Collect the details

Gather (or ask for) the following:

Field Description Required
Title One-line summary — what is blocked Yes
Blocker description What is the impediment, where it came from, why it exists Yes
Affected story/team member Which Sprint item or person is blocked Yes
Impact What happens if this is not resolved — does the Sprint goal slip? Yes
Owner Who is responsible for resolving it (often the SM, sometimes PO or external) Yes
Target resolution date When must this be resolved to avoid Sprint impact Yes
Escalation required Does this need to go above the team (management, external vendor, another team)? Yes

Create the work item

ADO: use wit_create_work_item with type Impediment (if the process template supports it) or Issue. Set:

  • Title: [BLOCKER] [title]
  • Description: blocker description + impact
  • Tags: impediment, plus escalation-needed if escalation is required
  • Priority: 1 if Sprint goal is at risk, 2 otherwise
  • Assigned To: owner
  • Target Date (custom field or iteration target)

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 11d ago First seen · 150 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 2651fe3a6288

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sm-impediment-log is a skill published in the GitHub repository abrahamFerga/scrum-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,539 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.