backlog-enhance-tasks

backlog-enhance-tasks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mazen160/backlog. It costs 50 tokens per session (741 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog-writing tool that rewrites a task for clarity and can optionally create an implementation plan. A backlog is a list of planned work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Improving a task’s title and description from its task reference. With the optional plan mode, it also generates a plan for completing that task.
Why use it?
It turns vague task records into specific, testable descriptions. This makes the intended change and its completion criteria easier to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Improving a task’s title and description from its task reference. With the optional plan mode, it also generates a plan for completing that task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mazen160/backlog/backlog-enhance-tasks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mazen160/backlog --skill backlog-enhance-tasks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mazen160/backlog

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 741 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.00741
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00370
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00074

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5ef46fea7624, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-enhance-tasks 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 8d 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-enhance-tasks/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

backlog-enhance-tasks

Enhance a backlog task's title, description, and optionally generate a plan using Claude.

When to use

Invoke as /backlog-enhance-tasks TASK-N or /backlog-enhance-tasks TASK-N --build-plan.

Accepts: a task ref (TASK-N or bare integer), optional --build-plan flag.

Workflow

1. Fetch the task

./backlog --profile default task show <ref> --json

Parse the JSON. Extract: id, seq, title, description, type, priority, project.

2. Rewrite the title

Improve the title for clarity and specificity. Rules:

  • Use imperative verb ("Add", "Fix", "Remove", "Expose", "Migrate" — not "Adding" or "Added")
  • Be specific: include the subsystem or file if known (e.g., "Fix circular onclick rebind in load-more button" not "Fix button bug")
  • Keep it under 80 chars
  • Do not change the intent or scope

3. Expand the description

Rewrite the description as structured markdown with these sections (omit sections that don't apply):

## Context
<1-2 sentences on why this matters — what breaks or is missing without it>

## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] <specific, testable criterion>
- [ ] <specific, testable criterion>
- [ ] ...

## Implementation hints
<optional: file paths, function names, API patterns — only if clearly known>

Rules:

  • Keep what's already correct in the existing description
  • Do not invent scope that isn't implied by the title/type/context
  • Write for a developer who hasn't seen this codebase before

4. Write back to the task

./backlog --profile default task update <ref> \
  --title "<improved title>" \
  --description "<expanded description>" \
  --as "ai:claude-sonnet-4-6"

5. Build plan (if --build-plan flag provided)

Generate a concise implementation plan:

## Steps
1. <first concrete action — file, function, what to change>
2. <next action>
...

## Testing
- <how to verify this works>

Then attach it:

./backlog --profile default plan add \
  --task <ref> \
  --title "Implementation plan" \
  --content "<plan markdown>" \
  --as "ai:claude-sonnet-4-6"

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 8d ago First seen · 105 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 5ef46fea7624

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backlog-enhance-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository mazen160/backlog (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 741 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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