graduate-backlog

graduate-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (5,123 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for moving a project's documented backlog into a forge issue tracker, such as GitHub or GitLab Issues, when several people need to claim work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to publish selected roadmap phases, sprint tasks, and new incoming work as tracker issues without turning the whole backlog into a large board.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of copying roadmap and sprint tasks into a shared tracker while keeping planning documents in the repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the project-orchestration-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to publish selected roadmap phases, sprint tasks, and new incoming work as tracker issues without turning the whole backlog into a large board.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills/graduate-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 jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills --skill graduate-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-orchestration-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,123 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00124 $0.05123
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.02561
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00512

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0798fb90de0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graduate-backlog scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

use the Gitea REST API via `curl` + token (`/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/…`) for anything `tea`
skills/graduate-backlog/SKILL.md · 334 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Graduation

Bridge a project's in-repo backlog onto a forge issue tracker at the moment the backlog outgrows a single contributor. The orchestration skills author a rich in-repo backlog — docs/roadmap/roadmap.md (phases → target versions → task lists), docs/sprints/*.md (plans/retrospectives), a Nygard ADR sequence, and a Keep-a-Changelog CHANGELOG.md. Once more than one person needs to see and claim that work, they need a tracker — but that transform is manual and uncodified.

This skill performs it conservatively. The default is thin-hybrid: planning stays in-repo, and the tracker holds only incoming/reactive work plus — at most — the current milestone's tactical items. That is light externalization, not a board build-out. A richer board is opt-in (the roadmap-visible level), justified by a real need for roadmap visibility.

The trigger is team scale, not exposure. Graduation is driven by who needs to see the work — the same signal as the t0→t1 tier bump ("more than one contributor"). It is not gated on the Public distribution profile: a corporate team on an internal GitLab needs a board without ever open-sourcing, and a solo public repo may never need one. Exposure gates compliance controls, not work organization. (Workspace decision records: "Distribution-Profile Axis for Compliance Qualification", "Work-Organization Graduation: Thin-Hybrid Backlog Externalization", "Plugin Taxonomy by Lifecycle, Not Exposure" — cited by title because bare numbers would collide with the target project's own ADR sequence, which Phase 3 writes into.)

Establish vs operate. This skill establishes tracker structure from the backlog; incoming-issue (project-maintenance-skills) operates it afterward. Where that plugin is installed it owns the richer contributor-facing setup — issue templates, good first issue, the full triage taxonomy. This skill creates only the minimal labels it needs, so it works standalone in contexts where the maintenance plugin is absent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 334 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. 12d ago First seen · 334 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 0798fb90de0e

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graduate-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills (15 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 5,123 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.