prioritize-epics

prioritize-epics is a skill for Claude Code from navapbc/digital-service-orchestra. It costs 218 tokens per session (1,697 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A backlog-prioritisation workflow that ranks existing open epics from P0 (most urgent) to P4 (lowest priority) using stakeholder goals, risk tolerance, trade-offs, and out-of-scope rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps product teams sort an epic backlog, clarify poorly described epics, and decide whether high-priority work needs further brainstorming.
Why use it?
It replaces an unclear or inconsistent backlog order with a shared set of priorities. It also identifies epics that need clarification before they can be judged.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dso plugin — 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps product teams sort an epic backlog, clarify poorly described epics, and decide whether high-priority work needs further brainstorming.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add navapbc/digital-service-orchestra
Claude Code
/plugin install dso

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents.

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Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,697 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 $0.00218 $0.01697
Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.00848
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00170

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4005f2ae6c52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prioritize-epics 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 9d 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.

plugins/dso/skills/prioritize-epics/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prioritize Epics

Act as a Senior Product Manager. Assign P0–P4 priorities across an existing backlog of open epics using a stakeholder-defined rubric. This skill prioritizes existing epics; it does not create new ones. Use /dso:roadmap or /dso:brainstorm to create epics.

Usage

/dso:prioritize-epics

Interactive. Walks through 5 phases with explicit user confirmation between each. Supports dryrun mode via /dso:dryrun /dso:prioritize-epics.

Scope

  • In scope: assigning priorities (P0–P4) to existing open epics; adding clarifying comments to epics that lacked enough information; offering to brainstorm any P0/P1 epic that is not yet brainstormed.
  • Out of scope: creating new epics, modifying epic descriptions or success criteria (beyond appending a Phase 1 clarification comment), decomposing epics into stories/tasks.

Layout

This skill's logic is split across phase files. Load each on demand:

File When to read
phases/phase-1-assessment.md Phase 1 — project assessment
phases/phase-2-stakeholder.md Phase 2 — stakeholder interview
phases/phase-3-coarse-sort.md Phase 3 — coarse sorting
phases/phase-4-granular-sort.md Phase 4 — granular sorting
phases/phase-5-brainstorming.md Phase 5 — brainstorming follow-up
prompts/epic-clarity-review.md Phase 1 Step 1 sub-agent prompt
prompts/vision-summary.md Phase 1 Step 3 sub-agent prompt
prompts/vision-gap.md Phase 1 Step 4 sub-agent prompt
prompts/risk-hotspots.md Phase 1 Step 5 sub-agent prompt
prompts/coarse-sort-batch.md Phase 3 Step 1 sub-agent prompt

Session State

Maintain these variables across phases:

Variable Set in Used by
OUT_OF_SCOPE_IDS Phase 1 Step 2 (epics the user said are out of scope) Phase 3 (excluded from batch sort)
CLARIFIED_IDS Phase 1 Step 2 (epics that got a clarification comment) Logging only
VISION_SUMMARY Phase 1 Step 3 Phase 2 framing, Phase 3 subagent prompt
STATE_VS_VISION_GAP Phase 1 Step 4 Phase 2 framing
RISK_HOTSPOTS Phase 1 Step 5 Phase 2 framing, risk-tolerance discussion
NORTH_STAR Phase 2 Step 2 (approved) Phase 3, 4
RISK_TOLERANCE Phase 2 Step 2 (approved) Phase 3, 4
TRADEOFFS Phase 2 Step 2 (approved) Phase 4
OUT_OF_SCOPE_DEFINITION Phase 2 Step 2 (approved) Phase 3, 4
AVOID_RISK Phase 2 Step 2 (boolean derived from RISK_TOLERANCE) Phase 3 subagent prompt, Phase 3 Step 2
BUCKETS Phase 3 (after dependency adjustments) Phase 4

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A 4005f2ae6c52

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prioritize-epics is a skill published in the GitHub repository navapbc/digital-service-orchestra (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 1,697 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-09-03.

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