kano-backlog

kano-backlog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lykhoyda/rn-dev-agent. It costs 215 tokens per session (2,378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to sort and refine GitHub Issues, which are tracked work items, using the Kano model: Must-be, Performance, Attractive, Indifferent, or Reverse.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to triage open GitHub Issues, assign Kano and priority labels, groom a backlog, and choose what to work on next.
Why use it?
It prevents votes, age, or appealing new features from hiding basic bugs and missing necessities. It also turns a noisy backlog into a prioritized plan with one recommended next issue.

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/lykhoyda/rn-dev-agent/kano-backlog
Any agent
npx skills add Lykhoyda/rn-dev-agent --skill kano-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lykhoyda/rn-dev-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 215 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,378 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 $0.00215 $0.02378
Opus 5 $0.00108 $0.01189
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00238

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7eb780a80d73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kano-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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/ensure_labels.sh, scripts/fetch_backlog.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/kano-backlog/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kano Backlog Refinement (GitHub Issues)

Turn a noisy GitHub Issues backlog into a Kano-prioritized plan and a single, defensible "do this next" pick. The Kano model is the right lens because backlog priority is not one-dimensional: an unmet Must-be (a bug, a broken basic) quietly burns satisfaction every day, while an Attractive delighter costs nothing when absent. Sorting by Kano category before sorting by votes or age prevents the classic failure of shipping shiny features on top of broken basics.

Read references/kano-model.md for the five categories, the functional/ dysfunctional question pair, the full evaluation table, and the heuristic signals. Load it before categorizing — the body below assumes you know the categories.

When to use

The user wants to know what to work on next, wants the backlog cleaned up / groomed / refined / triaged, wants issues prioritized, or names the Kano model. You operate on GitHub Issues via the gh CLI.

What this skill does and does not change

Write-back is automatic (no confirmation prompt) but deliberately scoped to additive, reversible edits:

  • ✅ Auto-applied: kano:* category labels and priority:now|next|later labels.
  • ⚠️ Recommended, never auto-done: closing issues (e.g. Reverse or stale Indifferent items) and editing/deleting issue bodies. Closing is hard to reverse and signals intent to a human audience, so surface it as a recommended action with rationale and let the user run it. This boundary holds even though the user opted into "fully automatic" — automation covers labeling, not destructive or outward-facing actions.

Every label change is logged in the final report so the run is auditable.

Workflow

1. Resolve the target repo

Confirm which repo's backlog you're refining before touching anything — labeling the wrong repo is annoying to undo.

  • If the user named a repo, use --repo owner/name on every gh call.
  • Otherwise detect the current one: gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner.
  • State the resolved repo in your first message ("Refining the backlog for owner/name…") so a wrong target is caught immediately.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 214 lines · 215 tokens per session scan A 7eb780a80d73

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kano-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lykhoyda/rn-dev-agent (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 215 tokens to every session and 2,378 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-30.

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