prioritization-effort-impact

prioritization-effort-impact is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nicepkg/ai-workflow. It costs 96 tokens per session (3,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for ranking work by comparing its expected value with the effort required. Its two-by-two matrix separates quick wins, big bets, low-value tasks, and work that may consume too many resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prioritize features, bugs, technical debt, roadmap initiatives, and competing projects.
Why use it?
It makes backlog trade-offs visible when there are more tasks than the team can handle. This helps teams choose what to do first and explain those choices to others.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/nicepkg/ai-workflow/prioritization-effort-impact
Any agent
npx skills add nicepkg/ai-workflow --skill prioritization-effort-impact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for prioritization-effort-impact

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/prioritization-effort-impact.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/prioritization-effort-impact)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/prioritization-effort-impact"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/prioritization-effort-impact.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,071 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 $0.00096 $0.03071
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01536
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00307

Measured yesterday against content hash 3cada32528c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prioritization-effort-impact 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 yesterday.

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.

workflows/product-manager-workflow/.claude/skills/prioritization-effort-impact/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prioritization: Effort-Impact Matrix

Table of Contents

  1. Purpose
  2. When to Use
  3. What Is It?
  4. Workflow
  5. Common Patterns
  6. Scoring Frameworks
  7. Guardrails
  8. Quick Reference

Purpose

Transform overwhelming backlogs and option lists into clear, actionable priorities by mapping items on a 2x2 matrix of effort (cost/complexity) vs impact (value/benefit). Identify quick wins (high impact, low effort) and distinguish them from big bets (high impact, high effort), time sinks (low impact, high effort), and fill-ins (low impact, low effort).

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • Backlog overflow: You have 20+ items (features, bugs, tasks, ideas) and need to decide execution order
  • Resource constraints: Limited time, budget, or people force trade-off decisions
  • Strategic planning: Choosing between initiatives, projects, or investments for quarterly/annual roadmaps
  • Quick wins needed: Stakeholders want visible progress fast; you need high-impact low-effort items
  • Trade-off clarity: Team debates "should we do A or B?" without explicit effort/impact comparison
  • Alignment gaps: Different stakeholders (eng, product, sales, exec) have conflicting priorities
  • Context switching: Too many simultaneous projects; need to focus on what matters most
  • New PM/leader: Taking over a backlog and need systematic prioritization approach

Common triggers:

  • "We have 50 feature requests, where do we start?"
  • "What are the quick wins?"
  • "Should we do the migration or the new feature first?"
  • "How do we prioritize technical debt vs new features?"
  • "What gives us the most bang for our buck?"

What Is It?

Effort-Impact Matrix (also called Impact-Effort Matrix, Quick Wins Matrix, or 2x2 Prioritization) plots each item on two dimensions:

  • X-axis: Effort (time, cost, complexity, risk, dependencies)
  • Y-axis: Impact (value, revenue, user benefit, strategic alignment, risk reduction)

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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. yesterday First seen · 226 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 3cada32528c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prioritization-effort-impact is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (283 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 3,071 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 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

stale-sweep

Sweep the googleapis/mcp-toolbox repo for issues and PRs with no real activity in N days (default 60), sort each by whose silence it is (the author's, ours, or nobody's), and draft the nudge or close comment. Use whenever a maintainer asks for a stale sweep, backlog cleanup, or an SLO check, e.g. "stale sweep", "find…

googleapis/mcp-toolbox · 159 tokens

github-issue-triage

Issue triage and lifecycle management agent for ZeroClaw. Use this skill whenever the user wants to: triage open issues, close stale/duplicate/fixed issues, apply labels, run a backlog sweep, enforce the current issue stale policy, or handle a specific issue. Trigger on: 'triage issues', 'issue triage', 'sweep…

zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw · 140 tokens

triage

Triage open herdr GitHub issues into a concise decision-first Markdown table. Use when the user says "triage", asks to triage open issues, asks which issues need attention, or wants issue priority/recommendation lights for herdr.

herdrdev/herdr · 53 tokens

backlog-technical-project-manager

Technical project management for Backlog.md workstreams using coordinated sub-agents. Use only when the user explicitly asks Codex to take over one or more existing Backlog.md tasks (for example: "act as TPM", "coordinate these tasks", "delegate to sub-agents"). Orchestrate planning, implementation, and finalization…

MrLesk/Backlog.md · 90 tokens

babysit

Same-session monitoring loop for PRs, CI runs, tickets, and deployments using the monitorstart / monitorupdate / autonudgestop MCP tools. The loop re-injects your check instructions into THIS session on an idle interval — same context, same tools — and works from dashboard chat, Slack threads, and Discord DMs. Use…

kirodotdev/KiroCrew · 137 tokens

devloop

Goal-driven development loop — define objective, write rules with key-results, verify visually, sync to issue tracker.

x-cmd/x-cmd · 25 tokens