backlog-health-check

backlog-health-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bmbouter/redhat-agents. It costs 30 tokens per session (441 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Jira backlog review that looks for stale tickets, missing information, duplicates, incorrect statuses, and issues without the expected parent. A backlog is the list of planned or unfinished work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan open issues, find tickets that have not been updated, check required fields, detect possible duplicates, and identify work that is stuck or lacks an epic. It produces findings grouped by problem type.
Why use it?
It makes backlog cleanup more systematic before planning or review sessions. It highlights tickets that may be forgotten, incomplete, stuck, or repeated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to scan open issues, find tickets that have not been updated, check required fields, detect possible duplicates, and identify work that is stuck or lacks an epic. It produces findings grouped by problem type.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bmbouter/redhat-agents/backlog-health-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bmbouter/redhat-agents --skill backlog-health-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bmbouter/redhat-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 441 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 $0.00030 $0.00441
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 9d ago against content hash d85b6474dd30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-health-check 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.

module/skills/backlog-health-check/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

When to Use

When the PO wants to clean up the backlog, before grooming, or on a regular cadence.

Instructions

Read local/jira-workflow.md to understand required fields, statuses, and conventions.

1. Query open issues

Pull all non-closed issues in the project. Use JQL:

project = <PROJECT> AND status != Closed ORDER BY updated ASC

2. Check for problems

For each issue, check:

  • Stale: Not updated in 14+ days while in an active status (In Progress, Refinement). Flag with days-since-update.
  • Missing required fields: Check against the required fields from the workflow config (priority, component, description, acceptance criteria, etc.).
  • Orphaned: Non-epic issues without a parent epic, if the workflow config says sub-issues under epics are the norm.
  • Wrong status: Issues that appear stuck — e.g., "In Progress" with no assignee, or "New" for 30+ days.
  • Potential duplicates: Issues with very similar summaries. Group candidates.

3. Report

Present findings grouped by problem type:

## Backlog Health Report — <date>

### Stale Issues (no update in 14+ days)
- ISSUE-123 — "Summary" — 23 days stale, status: In Progress, assignee: @person

### Missing Fields
- ISSUE-456 — missing: component, acceptance criteria
- ISSUE-789 — missing: priority

### Orphaned Issues (no parent epic)
- ISSUE-012 — "Summary"

### Possible Duplicates
- Group 1: ISSUE-111, ISSUE-222 — both about "widget rendering"

### Summary
- X issues checked
- Y problems found
- Z issues are healthy

Ask the PO which items they want to address and help fix them.

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 · 59 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A d85b6474dd30

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backlog-health-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository bmbouter/redhat-agents (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 441 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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