backlog-discipline

backlog-discipline is a skill for Claude Code from nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit. It costs 221 tokens per session (510 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rule for recording all newly discovered work in docs/plan.md or docs/coordination/STATE.md, which act as the shared task record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when new work appears during a task or comes from outside, and when briefing agents so they record follow-ups in the shared files.
Why use it?
It prevents follow-ups, alerts, and support requests from getting lost in private lists or invisible suggestion tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the coordinator-kit plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when new work appears during a task or comes from outside, and when briefing agents so they record follow-ups in the shared files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit/backlog-discipline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit --skill backlog-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coordinator-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 221 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 510 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 $0.00221 $0.00510
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00051

Measured 8d ago against content hash 365a56e8e4e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-discipline 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 8d 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/coordinator-kit/skills/backlog-discipline/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Backlog discipline

docs/plan.md and docs/coordination/STATE.md are the single source of truth for pending work. Do not use suggestion-chip tools or any side backlog. A follow-up discovered mid-work becomes a new task in docs/plan.md, or a note on existing work in docs/coordination/STATE.md — never a separate list only the coordinator remembers. The same applies to signals arriving from outside the coordinator's own work — crash reports, support tickets, monitor alerts, mid-session founder messages — per the Intake rule in coordinator-kit:phase-loop's Cross-cutting rules: they become a plan task or a STATE.md note too, never a side list of their own.

This rule also has to travel with every dispatched agent, not just live in the coordinator's own head: a subagent that calls a suggestion-chip/spawn-task tool on its own creates a stray chip the coordinator cannot see or clean up. Restate it explicitly in the brief of any dispatched agent whose task could plausibly turn up a follow-up worth flagging — see coordinator-kit:agent-brief-hygiene for where this fits alongside the rest of what a brief must carry.

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. 8d ago First seen · 32 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A 365a56e8e4e4

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backlog-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository nikolamin/claude-coordinator-kit (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 510 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 2026-08-31.

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