backlog-generator

backlog-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from murphytrueman/design-system-ops. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,984 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for turning existing audit findings into planned work items for upcoming sprints. A sprint is a short, fixed period in which a team selects and completes work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating tickets with effort estimates, acceptance criteria, priorities, and explanations from audit results. It does not perform the audit itself.
Why use it?
It closes the gap between identifying problems and deciding what engineers and product managers should do next. It makes findings easier to prioritise, estimate, and implement without rereading the full audit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the design-system-ops plugin — 40 skills, 14 commands shipped together

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/murphytrueman/design-system-ops/backlog-generator
Any agent
npx skills add murphytrueman/design-system-ops --skill backlog-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/murphytrueman/design-system-ops

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install design-system-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 14 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,984 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 $0.00108 $0.01984
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00198

Measured 5d ago against content hash f63fa8bf718f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-generator 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.

skills/backlog-generator/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Generator

Context

The gap between "here are the problems" and "here is the plan for the next eight weeks" is where most audit value dies. Findings get filed, not acted on. Teams read the audit, nod, then move on because the step from "TA-07: Button component tokens not aliased correctly" to "what do we build next sprint?" is too large.

This skill bridges that gap by transforming audit output into structured work items that engineers and product managers can prioritise, estimate, and execute without needing to re-read the audit or negotiate what "fix the tokens" means. The output is sprints, not a wall of problems.

Boundaries

This skill transforms existing audit findings into work items. It does not run audits itself — if no audit output exists, run the relevant audit skill first. If the audit produced zero findings, there is no backlog to generate; confirm this with the user and stop. If the findings lack severity ratings or remediation guidance, flag the gap and produce work items with what is available, but note the missing context.


Steps

1. Accept and Parse Input

Accept input in any form: copy-paste audit report, file path, reference to prior audit skill output, or natural language description of findings.

Parse findings and extract:

  • Finding ID (e.g., TA-01, COL-03)
  • Severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low
  • Category: Token structure, component API, documentation, tooling, process
  • Current state: the problem as written in the audit
  • Remediation: what the audit says should happen

Do not assume findings are complete. If a finding is vague ("tokens are broken"), ask clarifying questions before proceeding.

2. Classify Work Item Type

For each finding, assign one of these work item types:

  • Bug fix: Something is broken and prevents correct usage (e.g., token alias creates circular reference, component prop ignored in doc site)
  • Tech debt: Working-as-designed but the design itself is unsustainable (e.g., token hierarchy is flat, component prop not typed)
  • Enhancement: New capability that enables better practice (e.g., new token tier, new component variant)
  • Migration: Moving from one system to another (e.g., migrating component token refs from old to new tier)
  • Documentation: Clarifying existing behaviour or adding examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 5d ago First seen · 131 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A f63fa8bf718f

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backlog-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository murphytrueman/design-system-ops (174 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,984 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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