prioritize

prioritize is a skill for Claude Code from drn/dots. It costs 24 tokens per session (994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for ranking backlog items with RICE, a planning method that weighs how many people a change affects, its expected impact, confidence, and effort.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to score and rank feature requests, bugs, issues, and pull requests, then prepare a prioritized backlog.
Why use it?
It turns a long or unclear task list into an ordered set of work for sprint planning.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it to score and rank feature requests, bugs, issues, and pull requests, then prepare a prioritized backlog.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drn/dots/prioritize
View source ↗ drn/dots
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 drn/dots --skill prioritize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 994 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00024 $0.00994
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00398
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00099

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 43c793a725bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prioritize 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 1mo 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.

agents/skills/prioritize/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Prioritization

Score and rank a list of work items using the RICE framework, then produce a prioritized backlog ready for sprint planning.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Required: list of items to prioritize, OR a path to a file containing them, OR "backlog" to pull from git issues/PRs

If no arguments provided, ask the user what items to prioritize.

Context

  • Repo: !git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[^/]+$' | head -1
  • Open issues: !gh issue list --limit 20 --state open 2>/dev/null | head -20
  • Open PRs: !gh pr list --limit 10 --state open 2>/dev/null | head -10

Instructions

Step 1: Gather Items

Parse the input into a list of discrete work items. Each item needs:

  • Title: short description
  • Source: where it came from (user input, issue #, PR #, etc.)

If $ARGUMENTS is "backlog", pull from open GitHub issues and PRs.

If fewer than 3 items, ask the user if they want to add more -- RICE works best with 5+ items to compare.

Step 2: Score Each Item (RICE)

For each item, estimate:

Factor Scale How to Estimate
Reach Number of users/devs affected per quarter Ask: who benefits? How many?
Impact 0.25 (minimal), 0.5 (low), 1 (medium), 2 (high), 3 (massive) Ask: how much does this move the needle?
Confidence 50%, 80%, or 100% How certain are these estimates? Use 80% as default.
Effort Person-days (0.5 = half day, 1 = one day, etc.) How long to implement, test, and ship?

RICE Score = (Reach x Impact x Confidence) / Effort

When estimating, be conservative:

  • Default Confidence to 80% unless there's strong evidence either way
  • Round Effort UP (optimistic estimates are the #1 cause of missed deadlines)
  • If you can't estimate Reach, ask the user -- don't guess

Step 3: Classify (MoSCoW)

After scoring, classify each item:

  • Must -- blocking other work or critical for users. Non-negotiable.
  • Should -- high value, should be in this sprint if capacity allows.
  • Could -- nice to have. Only if there's leftover capacity.
  • Won't -- explicitly out of scope. Saying "won't" prevents scope creep.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 1mo ago First seen · 104 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 43c793a725bf

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prioritize is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 994 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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