backlog-review

backlog-review is a skill for Claude Code from joris887/exosuit. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog health review that examines planned work, its quality, priorities, dependencies, and relationship to product requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking whether stories are ready to build, mapping epics to requirements, finding stalled or outdated work, and producing a backlog report.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear stories, missing details, misplaced priorities, dependency problems, and work that has drifted beyond the intended scope.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the exosuit plugin — 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Checking whether stories are ready to build, mapping epics to requirements, finding stalled or outdated work, and producing a backlog report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joris887/exosuit/backlog-review
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 joris887/exosuit --skill backlog-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joris887/exosuit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install exosuit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 1 command, 9 agents, 10 hooks.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,218 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 $0.00032 $0.01218
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00609
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00122

Measured 8d ago against content hash d9443a7f0452, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-review 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 8d 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/backlog-review/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


backlog-review

Execute comprehensive backlog review:

1. Load Current State

Read these files:

  • @docs/reference/BACKLOG_INDEX.md (backlog overview)
  • docs/reference/backlog/E##-name.md (epic files as needed)
  • @docs/reference/PRD_SUMMARY.md (requirements overview, if exists)
  • @docs/progress.md (completed work)

2. Theme Coverage Analysis

Map each epic to requirements:

| Epic | Requirements Covered | Coverage % | Gap Analysis |

Priority Validation

  • Are high-priority items truly high-value?
  • Are dependencies properly ordered?
  • Any blocked items that should be deprioritized?

Scope Assessment

  • Stories that exceed original scope
  • Features creeping in without justification
  • Non-goals being violated

3. Story Quality Scan

For each non-done story, validate against the Definition of Ready checklist:

Criterion Check
Title clear and specific Describes the change, not the problem
Type assigned One of: feature, bugfix, refactor, spike, infra, testing, docs, security, performance, skill
Size classified TRIVIAL, SMALL, STANDARD, LARGE, or XL. Flag for splitting only when the story spans unrelated topics — file count is not a threshold. See the cohesion test in ideate/references/story-template.md
Cohesion test passed Splitting the story would create artificial seams, not two meaningful pieces
3-7 acceptance criteria Each testable and specific; LARGE/XL may exceed 3-7, grouped under sub-headings. No "should be fast" or "handle errors properly"
Verification commands Exact commands that prove completion
Out of scope defined At least one explicit exclusion
Affected files listed Proportionate to size, not capped at a fixed number
Pattern references "Follow patterns in [file]" where applicable
Dependencies resolved No unresolved blockers
No ambiguous language No vague terms, all criteria measurable
Self-contained All referenced context included or linked

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 8d ago First seen · 155 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A d9443a7f0452

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backlog-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository joris887/exosuit (4 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,218 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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