sm-velocity-review

sm-velocity-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abrahamFerga/scrum-skills. It costs 120 tokens per session (1,726 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An analysis of a team's Sprint velocity, the amount of planned work it finishes in each Scrum Sprint.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps compare recent Sprints, summarize trends and averages, identify possible causes of variation, and guide the next Sprint commitment.
Why use it?
It shows whether delivery is stable or variable, helping the team make more realistic future commitments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps compare recent Sprints, summarize trends and averages, identify possible causes of variation, and guide the next Sprint commitment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abrahamferga/scrum-skills/sm-velocity-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,726 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 $0.00120 $0.01726
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00173

Measured 12d ago against content hash e0c7c8a1a1ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sm-velocity-review 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 12d 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-velocity-review/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Velocity Review

Purpose

Velocity is not a performance metric — it is a forecasting tool. A team with stable velocity can make reliable Sprint commitments and give stakeholders honest delivery timelines. A team with erratic velocity has a signal worth investigating: scope changes, underestimation, team instability, or interruptions. This skill surfaces the pattern so the Scrum Master and team can act on it.


Tool detection

  1. Check for active mcp__azure-devops__* tools → $PM_TOOL = ado
  2. Check for active mcp__jira__* tools → $PM_TOOL = jira
  3. If neither → $PM_TOOL = manual

Step 1 — Collect Sprint history

Ask: "How many Sprints should I look back? The last 5–8 is typically enough to identify a meaningful trend."

Default: last 6 Sprints.

  • ADO: use work_list_team_iterations to list recent iterations, then wit_get_work_items_for_iteration for each, filtering to Done/Closed state. Sum story points.
  • Jira: use sprint reporting tools to retrieve completed story points per sprint.
  • Manual: ask "For each of the last [N] Sprints, provide: Sprint name/number, total story points committed, and total story points completed."

For each Sprint, record:

  • Sprint name and dates
  • Points committed at Sprint start
  • Points completed (Done by Sprint end)
  • Team size (if known — helps normalise for team changes)
  • Any notable context: holidays, team member absence, unplanned work, scope additions mid-Sprint

Step 2 — Calculate the metrics

Average velocity:

Average = sum of completed points across all Sprints ÷ number of Sprints

Predictability rate (commitment accuracy):

Predictability = completed ÷ committed × 100, per Sprint

A rate consistently between 80–100% is healthy. Below 70% suggests chronic overcommitment. Above 110% suggests undercommitment or mid-Sprint scope additions.

Velocity trend: Compare the rolling average of the first half of the window to the second half.

  • Improving: later Sprints average higher than earlier ones
  • Declining: later Sprints average lower
  • Stable: within ±15% across the window

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 12d ago First seen · 160 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A e0c7c8a1a1ed

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sm-velocity-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository abrahamFerga/scrum-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,726 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.