backlog-reconcile

backlog-reconcile is a skill for Claude Code from dwarvesf/dwarves-kit. It costs 155 tokens per session (2,693 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-board audit that compares active backlog rows with specification files and the repository's actual history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Check backlog entries, verify linked SPEC files and status headers, and find shipped or in-progress claims that do not match the codebase.
Why use it?
It reveals tasks marked with the wrong status, missing specification files, or completion claims unsupported by commits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the kit plugin — 11 skills, 39 commands, 31 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Check backlog entries, verify linked SPEC files and status headers, and find shipped or in-progress claims that do not match the codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/backlog-reconcile
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 dwarvesf/dwarves-kit --skill backlog-reconcile
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 39 commands, 31 agents, 10 hooks.

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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,693 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 $0.00155 $0.02693
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01347
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00539
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00269

Measured 5d ago against content hash 766f45570001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-reconcile 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.

skills/backlog-reconcile/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog reconcile

Overview

Audit a repo's git-tracked _meta/BACKLOG.md Active queue against reality and ship the fixes as a PR. This is the backlog-reconcile instance of docs/patterns/audit-loop.md (the pattern doc's own "Backlog reconcile" SDLC-instances row): every adopter repo gets this schema via /kit:adopt (SPEC-005), so this instance is general-purpose, not maintainer-only like topology-drift.

The four slots (per the audit-loop pattern)

Slot This instance
Item set every row of the target repo's _meta/BACKLOG.md Active queue, enumerated via lib/board/backlog.sh board (id/title/status) plus a raw read of the file for each row's Target artifact cell
Contract a row's Status matches reality: (a) a shipped row not exempted by a _meta/megagoals/ target artifact must have already dropped off the queue; (b) a Target artifact naming SPEC-NNN must point at a real file whose own Status: header agrees with the board's Status; (c) a (tiny, no spec) row's executing/shipped claim must have a git-log match
Evidence class Tier 1: mechanical, batched (file existence, grep -m1 header extraction, one batched git log --grep -F pass). Tier 2: agents/audit-scanner.md, dispatched only on the Tier-1 delta, chunked ~25-30 rows per call, fed any gh evidence this skill gathers itself
Apply mechanics the ONLY mutation is bash lib/board/backlog.sh set <ID> <state> [note] (mechanical, preserves annotation prose); best-effort per row; PR-gated

Process

  1. Refusal guard. REFUSE if the target repo has no lib/board/backlog.sh or no _meta/BACKLOG.md (unadopted repo, nothing to reconcile); name what's missing and stop.

    test -x lib/board/backlog.sh || { echo "REFUSE: no lib/board/backlog.sh, repo not adopted"; exit 1; }
    test -f _meta/BACKLOG.md || { echo "REFUSE: no _meta/BACKLOG.md"; exit 1; }
    
  2. Branch in a worktree first (native worktree tool). All edits and the mutation ride this branch; touching _meta/BACKLOG.md on the current branch is the failure this skill exists to prevent, per every audit-loop precedent (memory-tidy, topology-drift).

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 5d ago First seen · 147 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A 766f45570001

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backlog-reconcile is a skill published in the GitHub repository dwarvesf/dwarves-kit (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 2,693 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-04.