ingest-backlog

ingest-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from infohata/mind-vault. It costs 98 tokens per session (3,477 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A one-time migration helper for turning a large backlog document into separate idea files. A backlog is a list of proposed work; the helper creates one structured file per idea and rebuilds an index.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to migrate a project's old backlog into docs/ideas/IDEA-NNN-.md files while preserving completed entries as footer lines.
Why use it?
It removes the manual effort of splitting an existing IDEAS.md, BACKLOG.md, or similar file when adopting a per-idea workflow. It defaults to showing proposed changes before applying them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mv plugin — 23 skills, 6 commands, 8 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to migrate a project's old backlog into docs/ideas/IDEA-NNN-.md files while preserving completed entries as footer lines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/infohata/mind-vault/ingest-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 infohata/mind-vault --skill ingest-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infohata/mind-vault

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mv, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 6 commands, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

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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 3,477 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 $0.00098 $0.03477
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01739
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00695
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00348

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8397b17e81d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ingest-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 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/ingest-backlog/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ingest-backlog

One-time bootstrap helper. A brownfield project that already has a monolithic idea/backlog markdown document cannot cleanly adopt the sprint workflow's per-idea convention until every entry has its own file. This skill does that migration mechanically: scan the legacy document, emit one file per entry, regenerate a lightweight index, and leave completed entries as footer lines (forward-only policy).

This is not part of the sprint loop. Run it once per brownfield project, review the diff, commit.

When to use

TRIGGER when:

  • user says "ingest the backlog", "split IDEAS.md", "atomise the idea list", "convert BACKLOG.md into per-idea files", "bootstrap docs/ideas/"
  • a project adopting the sprint workflow has a legacy monolithic backlog file and no existing docs/ideas/ tree
  • /idea refuses to create because it detected a legacy file — this skill is the routed follow-up

SKIP when:

  • docs/ideas/ already has files AND a legacy monolithic file also exists — mixed state. Abort and ask the user which source of truth wins before touching either.
  • the legacy file is under 100 lines with fewer than ~5 entries — just ask the user to split it by hand; the skill is over-engineered for that.
  • the user wants to capture a new idea — route to /idea.
  • the user wants to plan an existing idea — route to /plan.

Pattern

1. Locate the source file

Scan in this order; stop at the first hit. Ask the user for an explicit path if multiple candidates exist or nothing is found.

Search paths (relative to project root):

  • IDEAS.md, BACKLOG.md, ROADMAP.md, TODO.md, FEATURES.md
  • docs/IDEAS.md, docs/BACKLOG.md, ...
  • docs/execution/IDEAS.md, docs/execution/BACKLOG.md, ...
  • docs/planning/IDEAS.md, docs/planning/BACKLOG.md, ...

If the user supplies an explicit path, honour it regardless of filename. The skill is agnostic about where the source lives.

2. Detect the format

Parse the source, identifying one of the recognised shapes in references/legacy-formats.md. The canonical shape uses H4 entries:

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 5d ago Changed 8397b17e81d3
  2. 9d ago First seen · 205 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 2d60cb00c3a7

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ingest-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository infohata/mind-vault (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,477 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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