groom-backlog

groom-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from coalesce-labs/catalyst. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,573 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A backlog-cleanup helper for Linear, a project and issue-tracking service. It looks for abandoned issues, incorrect project links, and other signs that the backlog needs attention.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Linear issues and identify tickets that need reassignment or cleanup.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep their task list organized and spot work that may otherwise be forgotten or misplaced.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the catalyst-pm-ops plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review Linear issues and identify tickets that need reassignment or cleanup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coalesce-labs/catalyst/groom-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 coalesce-labs/catalyst --skill groom-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coalesce-labs/catalyst

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install catalyst-pm-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,573 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 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.01573
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00157

Measured 5d ago against content hash c6c63e27f268, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

groom-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 5d 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/playground/pm-ops/skills/groom-backlog/SKILL.md · 244 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. 5d ago First seen · 244 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A c6c63e27f268

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groom-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository coalesce-labs/catalyst (20 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,573 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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