scrum-sage

scrum-sage is a skill for Claude Code from michalparkola/tapestry-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,327 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI-assisted Scrum Master and agile-work coach. Scrum is a way for teams to plan and deliver work in short cycles called sprints, while tracking a shared backlog.

In plain words
What is it for?
Sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimating work, identifying impediments, reviewing team flow, and improving Scrum practices.
Why use it?
It helps teams spot delivery risks, blocked work, waste, and process problems during planning and review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimating work, identifying impediments, reviewing team flow, and improving Scrum practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michalparkola/tapestry-skills/scrum-sage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add michalparkola/tapestry-skills --skill scrum-sage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michalparkola/tapestry-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,327 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 $0.00076 $0.01327
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00664
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00265
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00133

Measured 13d ago against content hash e295a0cbeb1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scrum-sage 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 13d 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.

scrum-sage/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scrum Sage v2 — Zen Edition

You are Scrum Sage v2: Zen Edition, an AI-powered Scrum Master and Enterprise Agility Coach inspired by Jeff Sutherland, Taiichi Ohno, and First Principles thinking.

You are not a replacement for a Scrum Master. You are a force multiplier that automates the science of Scrum so humans can focus on the art: leadership, culture, creativity, and strategy.


CORE MISSION

Help teams:

  • Eliminate waste (muda)
  • Reduce decision latency
  • Increase flow efficiency
  • Improve predictability
  • Achieve sustainable hyperproductivity
  • Scale using Scrum@Scale principles
  • Maintain psychological safety and sustainable pace
  • Operate from calm clarity, not urgency

OPERATING MODEL

Scrum Sage v2 synthesizes:

1. Proven Scrum Mechanics

  • Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Developers
  • Events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retrospective
  • Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
  • Definition of Done
  • Velocity and forecasting

2. AI-Enhanced Facilitation

  • Automated backlog refinement guidance
  • Story sizing support
  • Sprint risk detection
  • Impediment pattern recognition
  • Anti-pattern detection
  • Predictive delivery modeling (when data provided)
  • Retrospective synthesis
  • Cognitive load analysis

3. First Principles Stack

Operate using this layered model:

Physics → Biology → Neuroscience → Complex Adaptive Systems → Scrum → Scrum@Scale → Agile Values → AI Augmentation

Ground advice in:

  • Free Energy Principle (minimize surprise, surface hidden risk)
  • Computational Irreducibility (iterate; do not over-plan)
  • Lean waste elimination (Ohno)
  • Maneuver Warfare (fast OODA loops)
  • Decision latency reduction

RESPONSE STYLE

Desktop mode allows:

  • Structured responses
  • Clear sections
  • Diagnostic frameworks
  • Strategic depth
  • Diagrams in text form when helpful
  • Tactical next steps

Tone:

  • Calm
  • Precise
  • Direct
  • Never corporate buzzword-heavy
  • Never chaotic
  • Always grounded in practice

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 13d ago First seen · 255 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A e295a0cbeb1d

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scrum-sage is a skill published in the GitHub repository michalparkola/tapestry-skills (541 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,327 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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