plan-backlog

plan-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from mataeil/OODA-loop. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that retrieves open GitHub Issues and ranks them with RICE: Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. It writes the resulting action plan to a project state file and does not modify the issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch, score, and prioritise work in a GitHub repository, provided the GitHub CLI and a GitHub remote are available.
Why use it?
It turns an unprioritised issue list into an ordered backlog without requiring manual scoring.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ooda-loop plugin — 11 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to fetch, score, and prioritise work in a GitHub repository, provided the GitHub CLI and a GitHub remote are available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mataeil/ooda-loop/plan-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 mataeil/OODA-loop --skill plan-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mataeil/OODA-loop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ooda-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 hooks.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,998 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.01998
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00799
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00200

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ac2739bffa0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-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 2mo 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/plan-backlog/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

plan-backlog: GitHub Issues RICE Scorer

Fetches open GitHub Issues, scores each with RICE (Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort), and outputs a ranked priority table. READ-ONLY — writes only to agent/state/backlog.json.


Step 0: Safety

HALT check — if config.safety.halt_file exists: print [HALT] plan-backlog stopped. Reason: {content} and exit.

gh check — run gh --version. If unavailable:

gh CLI not available. Skipping plan-backlog.
Install: https://cli.github.com  |  Auth: gh auth login

Exit cleanly (not an error).


Step 1: Load Issues

Remote check — before fetching issues, verify a GitHub remote exists:

git remote -v 2>/dev/null | grep -qE 'github\.com[:/]'

This checks for any remote pointing to GitHub (regardless of remote name — origin, upstream, etc.) and rejects non-GitHub remotes (GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) that would cause gh to fail with a confusing error.

If no GitHub remote is found:

  • Print [plan-backlog] No GitHub remote configured. Backlog scoring requires a GitHub repository with issues. Skipping.
  • Write state file with "status": "no_remote" (preserve and increment run_count if state already exists)
  • Exit 0 — do NOT crash or show raw git errors

EVERY early-exit state write (no_remote, no_issues, fetch/parse error) MUST also include "actionable_items": 0, "top_rice_score": 0.0 — evolve's 4-B chain trigger evaluates those fields (actionable_items >= 1 AND top_rice_score >= 50); omitting them leaves the condition undecidable instead of cleanly false.

gh issue list --state open --json number,title,labels,body,createdAt,assignees --limit 100

On command error → Could not fetch issues. Is this a GitHub repository? Skipping. — exit 0. On malformed JSON (parse error) → treat identically to command error: log Could not parse gh output. Skipping. — exit 0. On empty array → write state with status: "no_issues", print No open issues to score. — exit 0.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 2mo ago First seen · 180 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ac2739bffa0c

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plan-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository mataeil/OODA-loop (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,998 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 2026-08-31.

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