create-backlog

A planning skill that turns an approved technical design into a prioritized product backlog, a living list of product capabilities ordered by importance. It requires the project's planning documents before creating the backlog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review project documents, resolve blocking questions, confirm priority and scope, and write a backlog divided into current, later, untriaged, and shipped work.
Why use it?
It prevents product capabilities from being mixed with implementation tasks and highlights missing information or decisions that could block planning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leifericf/agentic-sdk/create-backlog
Any agent
npx skills add leifericf/agentic-sdk --skill create-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leifericf/agentic-sdk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 411 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00012 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00041

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ff800d5d42d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 2d 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/create-backlog/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

create-backlog

Translate the technical design into a prioritized, living product backlog of capabilities. No implementation task breakdown.

Procedure

  1. Read project-meta.md, problem-description.md, product-requirements.md, risk-assumption-review.md, technical-design.md, decision-log.md, and open-questions.md (ux-design-guide.md optional). If a required prerequisite is missing, return blocked: <which artifact>.
  2. Surface and resolve [Blocking] items affecting product-backlog.md.
  3. Draft a simple capability hierarchy from the artifacts; iterate with the user to confirm priority, sequencing, and scope, at most three questions per turn. Check for missing capabilities and validate priority assumptions.
  4. If blocked by missing information, add a [Blocking] item to open-questions.md and stop. If new decisions are needed, record them in decision-log.md first.
  5. Write ~/.agentic-sdk/<project>/artifacts/planning/product-backlog.md as one living document with exactly these buckets in order: Now / Next, Later, Inbox (untriaged), In product (shipped). No IDs; priority is order within the bucket; each item appears once in one bucket; child items indent two spaces under their parent; no prose around the list. In product (shipped) holds plain capability names only, no dates or versions.

Boundaries

Owns the prioritized capability backlog. pick-feature owns selecting and triaging the next item; plan-feature owns decomposing one item into a plan. Reached by plan-system.

Return

One line: the artifact written and a terse status, or blocked: <reason>.

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. 2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 1ff800d5d42d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository leifericf/agentic-sdk (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 411 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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