backlog-cleanup

backlog-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brendenclerget/dotcortex. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,831 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Rules for organizing and grouping a development backlog, which is the list of unfinished work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean up a backlog, decide what should come first, and sort incoming tickets.
Why use it?
It helps remove unclear categories and ordering when many tickets compete for attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brendenclerget/dotcortex/backlog-cleanup
Any agent
npx skills add brendenclerget/dotcortex --skill backlog-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brendenclerget/dotcortex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for backlog-cleanup

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brendenclerget/dotcortex/backlog-cleanup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/brendenclerget/dotcortex/backlog-cleanup)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/brendenclerget/dotcortex/backlog-cleanup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/brendenclerget/dotcortex/backlog-cleanup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,831 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00046 $0.01831
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00183

Measured today against content hash 178bc599bb96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-cleanup 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 today.

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.

sources/skills/backlog-cleanup/SKILL.md · 140 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. today Changed · +75 lines · +16 tokens per session 178bc599bb96
  2. 4d ago First seen · 65 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 40439804ca0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository brendenclerget/dotcortex (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,831 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 2026-08-30.

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