What is backlog-revalidation?

A review process for checking whether old issues and pull requests still matter in the current codebase. It gathers evidence and classifies each item, such as still needed, already resolved, duplicated, or lacking evidence.

Use it for single-item, batch, or scheduled reviews of stale issues and pull requests, with citations and confidence levels.

Old work items can become inaccurate as code changes, causing wasted effort or premature closure. This process recommends what to do while separating evidence gathering from the final decision.

backlog-revalidation — Skill for Claude Code by ivegamsft

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 ivegamsft/basecoat --skill backlog-revalidation

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/backlog-revalidation/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/backlog-revalidation)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/backlog-revalidation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/backlog-revalidation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/backlog-revalidation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivegamsft/basecoat/backlog-revalidation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 568 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00081	$0.00568
Opus 5	$0.00041	$0.00284
Sonnet 5	$0.00016	$0.00114
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00057

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2ba1ad3f8728, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-revalidation 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 3d 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/backlog-revalidation/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Backlog Revalidation

Produce a report-first recommendation. Age and inactivity are candidate filters, never disposition evidence.

Modes

Single: revalidate one issue or pull request.
Batch: oldest-first review with configurable age, type, labels, and exclusions.
Scheduled: report-only. Never mutate in scheduled mode.

Classification

Schema and decision policy: references/classification-contract.md

Workflow

Bound the mode, item type, age filter, and exclusions.
Collect structured evidence before any model judgment: metadata, links, closing keywords, merged PRs, commits, current code, tests, workflows, docs, ADRs, releases, and later similar items.
Classify with citations and confidence. Text similarity is a signal, not proof.
Recommend comment, label, close, reopen, or human-review. Do not rewrite author intent; for needs-modification propose revised title/scope only.
Hand issue mutations to issue-triage. Hand PR mutations to orphaned-pr-cleanup. Recurrence uses one canonical tracker plus episode links.

Guardrails

Do not auto-close solely because an item is stale.
Auto-action only for high-confidence, evidence-linked duplicate, superseded, or already-resolved cases, and only when explicitly requested outside scheduled mode.
Medium or low confidence goes to human review.
Bulk mutation of more than five items requires dry-run first, then approval.
Partial fixes, reverted PRs, and reopened product direction are insufficient-evidence or needs-modification, not resolved.

Output

Return the evidence contract for every item, ranked recommendations, canonical links, confidence, and an explicit mutation statement (none unless a high-confidence action was requested).

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.

3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 2ba1ad3f8728

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-revalidation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 568 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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