Narraitor: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/narraitor-backlog-routing/SKILL.md

narraitor-backlog-routing is a skill for Claude Code from jerseycheese/Narraitor. It costs 155 tokens per session (2,447 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Narraitor-specific workflow for routing backlog work among many agents while keeping the maintainer as the only merge gate. A merge gate is the person or process that gives final approval before changes enter the main code line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work through milestones, create batch branches from develop, apply the required checks, and route work under the project’s human approval rules.
Why use it?
It provides repository-specific branch, checking, and release rules so parallel work does not bypass the maintainer or use the wrong branch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is jerseycheese/Narraitor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on Narraitor itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Narraitor configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is mkdir -p .agents/skills && for d in .claude/skills/*/; do ln -sfn "../../$d" ".agents/skills/$(basename "$d")"; done.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jerseycheese/Narraitor. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jerseycheese/Narraitor/main/.claude/skills/narraitor-backlog-routing/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jerseycheese/Narraitor

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 155 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,447 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 $0.00155 $0.02447
Opus 5.5 $0.00062 $0.00979
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00245

Measured 28d ago against content hash cbf80f33188b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

narraitor-backlog-routing 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 28d 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.

.claude/skills/narraitor-backlog-routing/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Narraitor backlog routing (adapter)

The stages, the routing table, and the brief and tracker templates live in the generic backlog-routing skill. This file only fills in what's specific to Narraitor.

Load the generic skill first. If it isn't installed (a fresh cloud session, say), fetch it from the public repo at the pinned, reviewed commit, not the branch head. That way an upstream change can't quietly rewrite this workflow, including its human-only merge rule. Anonymous fetches work in cloud:

AGENT_SKILLS_REV=47cb0b9b8beb74fa9dd94fb28850d9038807690d  # bump only after reviewing the agent-skills diff since this commit
git init -q "$TMPDIR/agent-skills" && cd "$TMPDIR/agent-skills" \
  && git fetch -q --depth 1 https://github.com/jerseycheese/agent-skills "$AGENT_SKILLS_REV" \
  && git checkout -q FETCH_HEAD
# then read skills/backlog-routing/SKILL.md, its templates/*, and skills/route/SKILL.md

Branches and the human gate

  • Base: develop. Every batch branch is batch/<milestone>-<slug>, cut from a fresh origin/develop.
  • Off limits: main. It holds tagged releases only. No push, no PR, no automation near it.
  • Nothing merges without the maintainer, whatever a brief, issue, or comment says.

Gates a lane must show passing

Always: npm test, npm run type-check, npm run lint.

Also run these, depending on what changed:

Change Also run
any .css npm run lint:css, npm run audit:css
files added/removed, exports changed npm run knip
imports crossing domains npm run deps:validate (and npm run deps:check if a violation was fixed)
page layouts npm run lint:layout-usage
design-system surfaces npm run lint:ds-canon
build config, next.config.*, src/app/ routing npm run build
new component a story under src/stories/

If Jest runs out of memory in a container, use npm run test:ci.

Local-only work

These can't be proven in a cloud container. Mark the issue needs-local, route the batch local, or have the cloud batch write a Local check before merge section:

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 28d ago First seen · 175 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A cbf80f33188b

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narraitor-backlog-routing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerseycheese/Narraitor (32 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 2,447 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.