spec-to-backlog

spec-to-backlog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hieptran87/atlassian-mcp-server. It costs 98 tokens per session (4,002 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-to-backlog, MIT.

A skill that turns specification documents in Confluence into a Jira backlog with an Epic and linked implementation tickets. Confluence stores team documents, while Jira tracks planned and completed work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read a Confluence specification, break it into implementation tasks, show the proposed breakdown, and create the Epic and child tickets in Jira.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of copying requirements into Jira and organizes the resulting tasks under the correct Epic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to read a Confluence specification, break it into implementation tasks, show the proposed breakdown, and create the Epic and child tickets in Jira.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hieptran87/atlassian-mcp-server/spec-to-backlog
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 hieptran87/atlassian-mcp-server --skill spec-to-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hieptran87/atlassian-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,002 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00098 $0.04002
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.02001
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00800
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00400

Measured 11d ago against content hash 02da938b0f29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-to-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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to spec-to-backlog — 146 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/spec-to-backlog/SKILL.md · 540 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 540 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec to Backlog

Overview

Transform Confluence specification documents into structured Jira backlogs automatically. This skill reads requirement documents from Confluence, intelligently breaks them down into logical implementation tasks, creates an Epic first to organize the work, then generates individual Jira tickets linked to that Epic—eliminating tedious manual copy-pasting.

Core Workflow

CRITICAL: Always follow this exact sequence:

  1. Fetch Confluence Page → Get the specification content
  2. Ask for Project Key → Identify target Jira project
  3. Analyze Specification → Break down into logical tasks (internally, don't create yet)
  4. Present Breakdown → Show user the planned Epic and tickets
  5. Create Epic FIRST → Establish parent Epic and capture its key
  6. Create Child Tickets → Generate tickets linked to the Epic
  7. Provide Summary → Present all created items with links

Why Epic must be created first: Child tickets need the Epic key to link properly during creation. Creating tickets first will result in orphaned tickets.


Step 1: Fetch Confluence Page

When triggered, obtain the Confluence page content:

If user provides a Confluence URL:

Extract the page ID from the URL pattern:

  • Standard format: https://[site].atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/[SPACE]/pages/[PAGE_ID]/[title]
  • The page ID is the numeric value in the URL path

If user provides only a page title or description:

Use the confluence_search tool to find the page:

confluence_search(
  cql="type=page AND title~'[search terms]'"
)

If multiple pages match, ask the user to clarify which one to use.

Fetch the page:

Call confluence_get_page with the pageId:

confluence_get_page(
  page_id="123456"
)

This returns the page content in Markdown format, which you'll analyze in Step 3.


Step 2: Ask for Project Key

Before analyzing the spec, determine the target Jira project:

Ask the user:

"Which Jira project should I create these tickets in? Please provide the project key (e.g., PROJ, ENG, PRODUCT)."

Read the full file on GitHub · 540 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 11d ago First seen · 540 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 02da938b0f29

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spec-to-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository hieptran87/atlassian-mcp-server (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 4,002 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to spec-to-backlog, differing in 146 lines, and is treated as a copy.