using-bee

A command-line interface for Backlog, a project management service. It manages projects, issues, pull requests, documents, repositories, teams, and notifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list, create, edit, close, or comment on issues and pull requests; manage documents and projects; inspect repositories; and check notifications.
Why use it?
It lets developers handle Backlog work from a terminal instead of switching between tools. Authentication and workspace settings can be configured for repeated use.

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/nulab/bee/using-bee
Any agent
npx skills add nulab/bee --skill using-bee
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nulab/bee

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,951 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 $0.00034 $0.01951
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00195

Measured yesterday against content hash f5241d6aeed4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-bee 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.

skills/using-bee/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

using-bee

bee is a CLI for Backlog. Use it to manage issues, pull requests, projects, wikis, documents, and more.

Prerequisites

bee must be authenticated. If commands fail with auth errors, ask the user to run bee auth login.

Set these environment variables to avoid repeating common flags:

Variable Purpose Example
BACKLOG_SPACE Default space hostname xxx.backlog.com
BACKLOG_PROJECT Default project key MY_PROJECT
BACKLOG_REPO Default repository name my-repo

Commands

Command Subcommands
bee auth login, logout, status, token, refresh, switch
bee project list, view, create, edit, delete, users, activities, add-user, remove-user
bee issue list, view, status, create, edit, close, reopen, attachments, comment, count, delete
bee document list, view, tree, attachments, create, delete
bee notification list, count, read, read-all
bee pr list, view, comments, status, create, edit, comment, count
bee repo list, view, clone
bee team list, view
bee user list, view, me, activities
bee wiki list, view, count, tags, history, attachments, create, edit, delete
bee category list, create, edit, delete
bee milestone list, create, edit, delete
bee issue-type list, create, edit, delete
bee space activities
bee status list, create, edit, delete
bee star add, list, count, remove
bee watching list, add, view, delete, read
bee dashboard Show a summary of your Backlog activity
bee browse Open a Backlog page in the browser
bee api Make an authenticated API request
bee completion Generate shell completion scripts

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. yesterday First seen · 143 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A f5241d6aeed4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-bee is a skill published in the GitHub repository nulab/bee (72 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,951 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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