backlog

backlog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lwalden/AIAgentMinder. It costs 8 tokens per session (725 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog manager for recording future work items and moving selected items onto a roadmap. A backlog is a list of work planned for later, such as bugs, features, investigations, or cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture one or more work items, add supporting context, review the backlog, or promote items to the roadmap.
Why use it?
It gives future work a consistent type, title, source, and identifier instead of leaving ideas scattered across notes or conversations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aiagentminder plugin — 15 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

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/lwalden/aiagentminder/backlog
Any agent
npx skills add lwalden/AIAgentMinder --skill backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lwalden/AIAgentMinder

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aiagentminder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks.

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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.

agentmods badge for backlog

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 8 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 725 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 $0.00008 $0.00725
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00362
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00072

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1130a9727e2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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/backlog/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/aiagentminder:backlog - Backlog Management

Capture future work items quickly, review the backlog, or promote items to the roadmap. All file I/O goes through backlog-capture.sh — never read or edit BACKLOG.md directly.


Determine the Mode

The user's input will indicate one of three modes:

A) Capture (default)

The user wants to record a future work item. Parse their intent into:

  • type: defect, feature, spike, or chore
  • title: one-line summary
  • source: where the idea came from (default: session)

Then run:

backlog-capture.sh add <type> "<title>" "<source>"

If the type is ambiguous, pick the best match — don't ask. Use these heuristics:

  • Bug, broken, error, regression → defect
  • Investigate, evaluate, research, explore → spike
  • Add, build, support, enable → feature
  • Clean up, update, migrate, rename → chore

If the user provides multiple items at once, run add for each one.

Optionally, if the user provided context beyond a title, also run:

backlog-capture.sh detail <id> "<context>"

Report the assigned ID(s) back to the user.

B) Review

The user wants to see and assess the current backlog. Run:

backlog-capture.sh list
backlog-capture.sh count

Present the items grouped by type. For each item older than 30 days (compare the Added date to today), flag it as stale.

Suggest promotions: items that align with the current roadmap phase or upcoming sprint work are good candidates. Items that have been stale for 60+ days should be considered for dropping.

C) Promote

The user wants to move a backlog item to the roadmap or into a sprint. Run:

backlog-capture.sh promote <id>

The script outputs the removed row. Use the row data to:

  1. If promoting to roadmap: apply /aiagentminder:revise mechanics to add the item to the appropriate phase in docs/strategy-roadmap.md.
  2. If pulling into the active sprint: add a row to SPRINT.md (with user confirmation, per scope-guardian rules).

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 3d ago First seen · 91 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 1130a9727e2f

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backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository lwalden/AIAgentMinder (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 725 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.