project-backlog

A repository-review workflow that turns findings about a code project into organized draft issues. It checks existing GitHub issues to find duplicates and records dependencies between problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing source code, tests, tooling, CI/CD, security, documentation, generated files, and release state, then drafting prioritized GitHub issues with evidence and dependencies.
Why use it?
It helps teams move from a broad code review to a manageable, prioritized backlog without immediately changing GitHub. Issue creation and dependency changes require explicit approval.

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/fmind/dotfiles/project-backlog
Any agent
npx skills add fmind/dotfiles --skill project-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmind/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,121 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.01121
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00112

Measured yesterday against content hash 53159fda850a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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.

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/project-backlog/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Backlog

Compose the repository-review skill with the repository's live issue taxonomy. Discovery and drafting are read-only by default; issue creation and native dependency mutation are a separate, explicitly authorized phase.

Local repository discovery requires git; live issue reads and authorized writes require gh.

Use the complete draft contract and exercise the failure boundaries in the behavioral evaluations.

Phase 1: Read-only discovery

  1. Confirm the local repository and read its instructions. Preserve staged, unstaged, and untracked work exactly as required by the repository-review skill.
  2. Resolve the candidate GitHub repository with gh repo view --json nameWithOwner,url,visibility; show it to the user, but do not treat discovery as mutation authorization.
  3. Run the cross-cutting repository review across source, tests, tooling, CI/CD, security, documentation, generated state, release state, and relevant authorized live behavior. Retain partial scans and unavailable services as evidence gaps.
  4. Fetch open and closed issues needed for duplicate analysis, including complete bodies, comments, labels, state, and native blockedBy and blocking relationships. Search by the underlying problem and evidence, not title similarity alone.
  5. Research current primary documentation or upstream source only where it can materially confirm a retained finding or implementation boundary. Record the publication or version context and distinguish sourced fact from inference.
  6. Classify each candidate as a verified finding or trend opportunity. A trend becomes an issue only when current project evidence proves fit and value; popularity, novelty, or a generic best practice is insufficient.
  7. Reject candidates that duplicate an existing issue, lack reproducible evidence, exceed the project's likely value, restore intentionally rejected scope, or add unjustified complexity.
  8. Draft every retained item with draft-contract.md. Explain why it is distinct from every close match and model dependencies as draft-to-draft or draft-to-existing-issue edges.
  9. Present the deduplication decisions, ordered drafts, and dependency graph for review. Stop here unless the user explicitly authorizes creation in the displayed repository.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 First seen · 58 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 53159fda850a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dotfiles (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,121 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 2026-08-31.

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