Backlog.md is a Markdown-based task manager and Kanban board for Git repositories, storing project tasks as plain files and providing a zero-configuration command-line interface. It is for teams and AI agents that need to define work, review implementation plans, track coding tasks, and preserve a readable record in Git.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/mrlesk/backlog.md/backlog-technical-project-managernpx skills add MrLesk/Backlog.md --skill backlog-technical-project-managergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MrLesk/Backlog.mdWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrlesk/backlog.md/backlog-technical-project-manager)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrlesk/backlog.md/backlog-technical-project-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrlesk/backlog.md/backlog-technical-project-manager.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00090 | $0.01935 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00045 | $0.00967 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00387 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00194 |
Grade A, and why
backlog-technical-project-manager 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.
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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- backlog-technical-project-manager — 97% identical, 14 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Backlog.md Technical Project Manager
Overview
Act as a coordinator and approver for complex Backlog.md task delivery. Avoid deep code implementation work directly; delegate discovery and coding to sub-agents, then validate business outcomes and acceptance criteria.
Activation Rule
Activate this skill only after explicit user intent to delegate coordination, such as:
- "Act as TPM"
- "Take over these tasks"
- "Coordinate implementation with sub-agents"
If intent is not explicit, ask for confirmation before activating.
TPM Operating Constraints
- Read Backlog.md workflow guidance first:
backlog://workflow/overviewbacklog://workflow/task-creationbacklog://workflow/task-executionbacklog://workflow/task-finalization
- Treat the workflow resources above as authoritative for Backlog.md process behavior.
- Keep TPM token usage focused:
- Do not perform broad codebase research yourself
- Delegate implementation research, blast-radius analysis, and coding to sub-agents
- Verify requirements and outcomes:
- Confirm each approved plan maps to task acceptance criteria and Definition of Done
- Enforce scope boundaries and dependency-safe sequencing
- Unblock verification aggressively when needed:
- TPM is authorized to install required tooling/dependencies for agents
- TPM is authorized to troubleshoot the environment (including stopping stuck processes) so verification can run
- TPM should not accept "done" without verifiable evidence
- Maintain the skill's operational memory:
- Keep the
## Common Agent Mistakes (Keep Updated)section current - At the end of each takeover, add newly observed repeatable failure patterns
- Remove or rewrite stale entries when process or tooling changes make them obsolete
- Keep the
- Improve quality gates with explicit user approval:
- When recurring verification gaps appear, propose DoD updates to the user
- Suggest concrete new DoD checklist items when they would prevent repeat failures
- Do not silently change task DoD scope; present recommendation and wait for user decision
- Keep task-record git state consistent:
- Sub-agents must update task records on their own task branch as part of their task delivery
- Do not perform standalone task-record sync commits on
main
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 182 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 58702bf61525
backlog-technical-project-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository MrLesk/Backlog.md (6,631 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,935 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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