What is housekeep-backlog?

A workflow for finding unfinished plans, TODO and FIXME notes, skipped tests, and open findings, then recording them in a maintained backlog.

It helps scan a repository, combine related items, assign priorities, and update a BACKLOG.md file without implementing the listed work.

It gives parked work a single, updateable register so teams can see what is new, completed, stale, or duplicated.

housekeep-backlog — Skill for Claude Code by kensaurus/cursor-kenji

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 kensaurus/cursor-kenji --skill housekeep-backlog

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kensaurus/cursor-kenji

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cursor-kenji, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 132 skills, 63 commands, 6 agents, 1 hook, 3 MCP servers.

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

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/housekeep-backlog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/housekeep-backlog/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/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/housekeep-backlog"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kensaurus/cursor-kenji/housekeep-backlog.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,811 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	$0.00062	$0.01811
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00724
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00362
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00181

Measured 29d ago against content hash b4811b6f2046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

housekeep-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 29d 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/housekeep-backlog/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

housekeep-backlog — Living register of parked work

Degree of freedom: MIXED. Discovery scan [LOW freedom — run exactly]. Classification, dedup, priority [HIGH freedom].

Apply-now for the register only. You do not implement backlog items here. Every plan-* skill creates parked work; this is the collector. The failure mode is not making the inventory — it goes stale within a month and nobody can tell if debt is shrinking. So this is docs-adr for parked work: regenerate, diff against the last run, keep stable IDs.

Prefer docs/BACKLOG.md. Use a root BACKLOG.md only if the host already has one.

This skill vs neighbors

Skill	Owns
housekeep-backlog (this)	Discover + dedup + write/diff the register
`complete-everything`	Execute one approved plan to closure
`burndown-full`	Drive one mechanical change to 100%
`docs-adr`	Decision memory, not parked-work inventory
`plan-stub-checker`	Stub/dead-UI plan (feeds this register)
`workflow-feature-flag`	Flag debt execution
`workflow-housekeep`	README / dead files / deps — not the backlog
`workflow-release-prep`	What's done in the dirty tree → merge-ready PR
`enhance-agent-guardrails`	Installs the same-PR / "read BACKLOG.md" wording

How to reason (every candidate)

Locate — file:line or doc path; form (TODO / parked phase / skip / open finding / flag)
Interpret — what actual work is it? A bare // TODO: fix is itself a finding — tag needs-triage, do not drop it
Classify — tech-debt / unfinished-feature / deferred-plan-phase / test-gap / known-bug / decision-needed
Status — still-relevant / verify-done / stale-or-obsolete

Skipping Interpret produces a register of context-free TODOs nobody can action.

Worked example

Locate: docs/plans/auth-refactor.md — phases 1–2 checked, 3–4 unchecked; last commit 4 months ago. Interpret: phase 3 is refresh-token rotation; phase 4 is audit follow-ups parked mid-plan. Classify: deferred-plan-phase (two items). Status: ph3 still-relevant; ph4 — audit-auth-flows has since run, so verify-done before carrying it. Rows: BL-014 | deferred-phase | auth-refactor ph3: refresh rotation | relevant | high | docs/plans/auth-refactor.md BL-015 | deferred-phase | auth-refactor ph4: audit follow-ups | verify-done | med | docs/plans/auth-refactor.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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.

29d ago Changed · +1 lines · -15 tokens per session b4811b6f2046
1mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 916963fdd3d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

housekeep-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository kensaurus/cursor-kenji (9 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,811 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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