aid-update-backlog

aid-update-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from AndreVianna/aid-methodology. It costs 135 tokens per session (2,675 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-maintenance workflow for revising an existing backlog: a list of planned work, priorities, and technical debt. It can add, regroup, reprioritize, or retire items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to maintain backlog.md, update the Next Release section, and transfer accepted rows from tech-debt.md.
Why use it?
It keeps the backlog aligned with current commitments and moves accepted technical-debt items into planned work. If the backlog does not exist, it directs you to its creation workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to maintain backlog.md, update the Next Release section, and transfer accepted rows from tech-debt.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andrevianna/aid-methodology/aid-update-backlog
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 AndreVianna/aid-methodology --skill aid-update-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndreVianna/aid-methodology

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,675 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 $0.00135 $0.02675
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01337
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00267

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3787d95bbda7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aid-update-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 9d 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/aid-update-backlog/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Backlog (revise backlog.md)

/aid-update-backlog revises .aid/knowledge/backlog.md. It is an update-stage skill under the shared contract in .claude/aid/templates/design-lifecycle.md (class 1), reading and consuming a seed from .aid/design/backlog.md when one is present, and never requiring one.

  • Boundary vs /aid-create-backlog: that skill creates backlog.md on first use. When backlog.md is absent this skill routes to /aid-create-backlog, names it explicitly, and writes nothing.
  • Not a numbered pipeline phase; does not route to /aid-execute.

State machine: INTAKE -> GUARD -> UPDATE -> VERIFY -> PRESENT -> DONE. Print the [State: NAME] -- {purpose} entry line on each state.


State: INTAKE

  1. Require a subject. Empty argument -> ask one bootstrapping question ("What would you like to revise in the backlog -- items to add, re-prioritize, promote from tech-debt.md, or move between sections?") and wait.
  2. Allocate, exactly per design-lifecycle.md § Skill shape -- Allocation -- the Work Initiation Gate, then initiator: aid-update-backlog, active_skill: aid-update-backlog, pipeline.path: lite, lifecycle: Running. phase is not driven.
  3. Read the destination at .aid/knowledge/backlog.md. If absent, route to /aid-create-backlog -- name it explicitly in the response -- and write nothing. Set lifecycle: Paused-Awaiting-Input. Advance to DONE without proceeding further.
  4. Read the seed at .aid/design/backlog.md if one exists. Note its presence or absence; do not require it.
  5. Read tech-debt.md at .aid/knowledge/tech-debt.md if it exists. The seed or the user may name candidate rows to promote; know their current state before the confirm gate runs.
  6. Ask the derived-outputs question -- every run, unconditionally: "Which previously created outputs should be updated alongside backlog.md?" Wait for the user's answer before proceeding. Write no stored list and no tracking metadata anywhere.
  7. Classify complexity (model + effort) for the aid-architect dispatch below; verifier tier >= producer tier (agent-dispatch-tiering.md).

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 9d ago First seen · 206 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 3787d95bbda7

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aid-update-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndreVianna/aid-methodology (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 2,675 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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