spec-to-backlog

spec-to-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from adam-s-k-i/super-backlog. It costs 61 tokens per session (463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning tool that turns an approved design or implementation plan into tracked tasks in Backlog.md, including acceptance criteria, milestones, and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after approving a design or writing a plan, before coding starts, to create small tasks that can be completed in one work session or pull request.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of breaking a plan into reviewable tasks and helps keep task order and project phases clear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after approving a design or writing a plan, before coding starts, to create small tasks that can be completed in one work session or pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adam-s-k-i/super-backlog/spec-to-backlog
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add adam-s-k-i/super-backlog --skill spec-to-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adam-s-k-i/super-backlog

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 $0.00061 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00046

Measured 11d ago against content hash a2f3ffd9006c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-to-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 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.

.claude/skills/spec-to-backlog/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Spec → Backlog: turn plan units into tracked tasks

Bridge between Superpowers (brainstorming, writing-plans) and Backlog.md.

When this skill runs

  1. After an approved design doc (end of brainstorming), BEFORE implementing.
  2. After writing-plans, to materialize plan units as tasks.
  3. When the user asks to split work into tasks.

Procedure

  1. Read backlog instructions overview and backlog instructions task-creation first.
  2. Decompose: every plan unit becomes ONE task, small enough for one session/PR.
  3. Create per task: backlog task create "Title" -d "<goal/context>" --ac "<criterion 1>" --ac "<criterion 2>" --type feature --labels feature,phase/spec --ref "<path/to/plan-doc>"
    • Dependencies: --dep TASK-y (order follows the plan).
    • Larger efforts: backlog milestone add "<Name>", attach via -m.
    • Reference the plan doc via --ref; NEVER copy it into the task.
  4. Never set --plan or --notes at create time — those belong to the "task started" checkpoint after codebase research.
  5. Every created task starts at phase/spec. Later phase changes happen only via sbl phase <id> <phase> at gate passages — never by editing labels manually.
  6. STOP at the review gate: the human reviews specs and acceptance criteria (backlog board / backlog browser / project dashboard) before any code exists.

Boundaries

  • Never hand-edit task markdown; use the backlog CLI exclusively.
  • No code, no worktrees, no status changes inside this skill.
  • Phase labels are set with creation and advanced only via sbl phase.
  • Project-specific human-gate topics get their own tasks with an explicit review gate.
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 Changed · +2 lines a2f3ffd9006c
  2. 11d ago First seen · 34 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f4603a9eb569

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spec-to-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository adam-s-k-i/super-backlog (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 463 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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