backlog

backlog is a skill for Claude Code from es6kr/skills. It costs 196 tokens per session (830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for managing development tasks across session TODOs, workspace checklist files, and external issue trackers. An issue tracker is a tool for recording and following software tasks or bugs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify incoming work, create or update issues, synchronize task status, prioritize items, and prune stale backlog entries.
Why use it?
It keeps tasks organized across temporary work, local planning files, and shared team records. It also provides common rules for priorities and task states.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the labs plugin — 8 skills shipped together , and of es6kr

Good fit Use it to classify incoming work, create or update issues, synchronize task status, prioritize items, and prune stale backlog entries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/es6kr/skills/backlog
View source ↗ es6kr/skills
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 es6kr/skills --skill backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/es6kr/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install labs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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 196 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 830 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 $0.00196 $0.00830
Opus 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00332
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00083

Measured yesterday against content hash da19d7a2e329, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 18 executable files (scripts/intake.py, scripts/plane_bulk_update.py, scripts/plane_client.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog

Unified backlog lifecycle management and orchestration across multiple storage layers (session WIP, markdown checklist files, and issue trackers).

Overview

The backlog skill provides a consistent operational interface for capturing, classifying, synchronizing, prioritizing, and maintaining backlogs across software development lifecycles.

Incoming Task / Request
  ├─ In-Session Short-Lived  ──→ /wip (Session Task API / TodoWrite)
  ├─ Workspace Markdown File ──→ /fix-plan (fix_plan.md / checklist.md)
  └─ Team-Shared External    ──→ Issue Tracker (GitHub Issues / Forge / Secondary Trackers)

Topics

Topic Description Guide
comment Post follow-up notes and nested review findings as comments on parent issues comment.md
create Create issues and intake items via API with fallback mechanisms create.md
prune Demote lower-priority items (P2/P3) and stale entries to preserve lean active focus sections prune.md
record Record this session's completed work + register next-session candidates (session/file/issue routing) record.md

Default Invocation (/backlog)

When invoked with no arguments, the backlog skill runs the standard health and synchronization pipeline:

  1. Sync: Poll external status for linked issues and pull requests to update resolved items.
  2. Priority Triage: Re-evaluate urgency and blockers across active items.
  3. Hygiene & Prune: Identify bloated or stale tasks exceeding active capacity.
  4. Summary Report: Output an actionable breakdown of immediate priority candidates.

Configuration

Option Default Description
--file=<path> fix_plan.md Target markdown checklist path for local operations
--role=<pm|deep|impl> (unset) Execution role profile filter for pipeline scoping
--secondary-sync=<skill>:<topic> (unset) Abstract receiver contract for non-GitHub backlog synchronization

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines · +15 tokens per session da19d7a2e329
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 181 tokens per session scan A e84aec1545fb

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backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository es6kr/skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 196 tokens to every session and 830 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.