sprint-planning

sprint-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abrahamFerga/scrum-skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,255 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for Sprint Planning, the Scrum meeting where a team chooses its goal and the work it expects to complete next.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define a Sprint Goal, select Product Backlog items, create an initial Sprint Backlog, and retrieve planning data from Azure DevOps or Jira.
Why use it?
It turns a broad backlog into a focused plan while considering the team's capacity and the purpose of the Sprint.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps define a Sprint Goal, select Product Backlog items, create an initial Sprint Backlog, and retrieve planning data from Azure DevOps or Jira.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abrahamferga/scrum-skills/sprint-planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,255 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

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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 $0.00113 $0.01255
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00628
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00126

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5829bf50e53c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sprint-planning 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.

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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/sprint-planning/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sprint Planning

Scrum Guide grounding

Sprint Planning kicks off the Sprint. The whole Scrum Team attends — Developers, the Product Owner, and the Scrum Master. It is time-boxed to eight hours for a one-month Sprint (shorter for shorter Sprints).

The event answers three questions:

Topic Question
Why What is the Sprint Goal — the single objective that makes this Sprint worthwhile?
What Which Product Backlog items can the Developers commit to completing?
How How will the selected work get done?

The Sprint Goal is the output that matters most. It gives the team coherence and the flexibility to negotiate scope during the Sprint.


Tool detection

Identify which project management tool is available before proceeding:

  1. Check for active mcp__azure-devops__* tools → set $PM_TOOL to ado
  2. Otherwise check for active mcp__jira__* tools → set $PM_TOOL to jira
  3. If both → ask: "I see both ADO and Jira connected — which should I use?"
  4. If neither → set $PM_TOOL to manual

Step 1 — Establish context

Ask for any missing context before pulling data:

  • "What is the Sprint length?" (default: 2 weeks)
  • "What is the team's capacity this Sprint?" (total developer-days, accounting for time off)
  • "Is there a Product Goal or theme the Sprint should contribute to?"

Store as $SPRINT_LENGTH, $CAPACITY, $PRODUCT_GOAL.


Step 2 — Fetch the top of the Product Backlog

Retrieve the ordered, refined items at the top of the backlog:

  • ADO: use wit_list_backlog_work_items or wit_list_backlogs for the current project
  • Jira: use the equivalent backlog listing tool, ordered by rank
  • Manual: ask the Product Owner to paste or describe the top 10–15 items

Present the items as a numbered list with ID, title, and current state. Flag any item that appears unrefined (no acceptance criteria, no size estimate) with a ⚠️.


Step 3 — Craft the Sprint Goal

A good Sprint Goal is:

  • A single, coherent objective — not a list of features
  • Outcome-oriented, not a task list
  • Achievable within the Sprint
  • Meaningful to stakeholders

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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 · 134 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 5829bf50e53c

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sprint-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository abrahamFerga/scrum-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,255 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.