wsjf-prioritization

wsjf-prioritization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fzfclee/consulting-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (854 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A backlog prioritization method that ranks work by its cost of delay divided by job size. WSJF stands for Weighted Shortest Job First, and a backlog is a list of planned work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Ordering features, projects, initiatives, epics, or other backlog items for delivery.
Why use it?
It helps sequence work when urgency, value, risk, and effort differ, without presenting rough scores as exact financial forecasts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Ordering features, projects, initiatives, epics, or other backlog items for delivery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fzfclee/consulting-skills/wsjf-prioritization
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fzfclee/consulting-skills --skill wsjf-prioritization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fzfclee/consulting-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 854 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 $0.00065 $0.00854
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00427
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1d980629956f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wsjf-prioritization 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 10d 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/wsjf-prioritization/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WSJF Prioritization

Use this skill to run WSJF Prioritization as a practical consulting method, not as a generic framework explanation.

Method Notes

  • WSJF means Weighted Shortest Job First.
  • Core formula: WSJF = Cost of Delay / Job Size.
  • Cost of Delay is commonly estimated as User/Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement.
  • Use relative scoring for comparison. Do not pretend the numbers are precise financial forecasts unless real financial data is available.
  • Revisit WSJF when market timing, risk, dependency, or job size changes.

Required Inputs

Collect or infer these inputs before execution:

  • candidate jobs or backlog items
  • user/business value estimate
  • time criticality estimate
  • risk reduction or opportunity enablement estimate
  • job size estimate

If an input is missing, do not block automatically. Mark it as missing, state the assumption used, and add a validation action.

When Not To Use

Do not use WSJF when options are too vague to size, when the work is purely exploratory with no meaningful delay cost, or when a hard dependency makes sequencing mathematically irrelevant. Use effort-impact-matrix first if the items are still broad themes.

Step-by-Step Execution

Step Required input How to execute Output
Normalize jobs Candidate jobs, initiatives, features, epics, or projects. Rewrite each item so it is one comparable job with a clear outcome and boundary. Normalized job list.
Estimate Cost of Delay components User/business value, time criticality, risk reduction, opportunity enablement evidence. Score each component on the same relative scale, such as Fibonacci or 1-10; record rationale and confidence. Component scoring table.
Calculate Cost of Delay Component scores. Add User/Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement. Cost of Delay score per job.
Estimate Job Size Scope, complexity, duration, effort, dependencies, delivery capacity. Score relative job size using the same sizing discipline for every item. Job Size score per job.
Calculate and sequence Cost of Delay and Job Size scores. Divide Cost of Delay by Job Size and rank high to low; then check dependencies and confidence. WSJF-ranked sequence with caveats.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 10d ago First seen · 84 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 1d980629956f

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wsjf-prioritization is a skill published in the GitHub repository fzfclee/consulting-skills (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 854 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.