manage-backlog

manage-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 57 tokens per session (512 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog manager for keeping product work in shared Markdown files. A backlog is an ordered list of planned work, where each item includes its goal, acceptance checks, tasks, and estimate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, refine, split, assign, estimate, or reorder product backlog items.
Why use it?
It keeps work items consistent and makes vague or oversized requests visible before development starts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the team-ops plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add, refine, split, assign, estimate, or reorder product backlog items.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atman-33/workhub/manage-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 atman-33/workhub --skill manage-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atman-33/workhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 512 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 $0.00057 $0.00512
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00256
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash dc0bac6dfb2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-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 4d 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.

plugins/team-ops/skills/manage-backlog/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Manage the product backlog

The backlog is Markdown in the shared folder (SSoT): projects/<p>/backlog/product-backlog.md (ordered overview) + items/<id>-<slug>.md (one PBI = one file).

PBI file schema

---
id: P-0012          # per-project, sequential; next id = max existing + 1
title: ...
status: todo        # todo | doing | review | done
points: 3           # from project.json sprint.pointScale
sprint: ""          # sprint folder name once committed (plan-sprint sets it)
assignee: ""
repos: []           # repo names this PBI touches (from project.json)
created: <date>
updated: <date>
---

## Story
As a <user>, I want <capability>, so that <value>.

## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] ...

## Tasks
- [ ] ...

## Notes

Operations

  • Add: assign the next id, create items/<id>-<slug>.md, add a row to product-backlog.md at the position the user wants (order = table order).
  • Refine: fill missing story/AC/points; keep AC testable and concrete. Flag items that are vague or exceed the largest point value, and propose splits.
  • Split: new ids for the parts; the original becomes done with a note pointing at its children, or is reworded as one of the parts.
  • Reorder / status: edit the overview table; status changes also update the item file's frontmatter (status, updated). done is normally set by humans at review — don't mark items done unilaterally.

Rules

  • Content in the team content language (<content-language>); id/status values stay as-is.
  • Never renumber existing ids. Never delete an item file — status and the overview table carry the lifecycle.
  • Append one activity-log line summarizing the batch of edits.
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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A dc0bac6dfb2e

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manage-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 512 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 2026-09-03.

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