gsd-review-backlog

gsd-review-backlog is a skill for Claude Code from open-gsd/gsd-core. It costs 14 tokens per session (513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing postponed project tasks and moving selected ones into the active milestone. It can also leave or remove backlog items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list backlog phases, inspect their saved context, promote selected items, keep them postponed, or remove them.
Why use it?
It makes old or deferred work visible and helps decide which items should become current priorities.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the gsd-core plugin — 72 skills, 35 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to list backlog phases, inspect their saved context, promote selected items, keep them postponed, or remove them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-gsd/gsd-core/gsd-review-backlog
About the project

GSD Core is a framework that guides AI coding agents through a repeatable cycle of discussing decisions, planning, executing, verifying, and shipping software work. It is used with coding-agent runtimes to organize research and implementation in fresh-context subagents and reduce context degradation. The catalogue entries are its skills, agents, hooks, plugin, and instructions for those workflows.

open-gsd/gsd-core · 9,278 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

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.

Any agent
npx skills add open-gsd/gsd-core --skill gsd-review-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gsd-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 72 skills, 35 agents, 7 hooks.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 513 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00014 $0.00513
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00257
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00051

Measured 3d ago against content hash 82166eabf8a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gsd-review-backlog 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/gsd-review-backlog/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

  1. List backlog items:

    _BACKLOG=( .planning/phases/999* )
    if [ -e "${_BACKLOG[0]}" ]; then ls -d "${_BACKLOG[@]}"; else echo "No backlog items found"; fi
    
  2. Read ROADMAP.md and extract all 999.x phase entries:

    cat .planning/ROADMAP.md
    

    Show each backlog item with its description, any accumulated context (CONTEXT.md, RESEARCH.md), and creation date.

  3. Present the list to the user via AskUserQuestion:

    • For each backlog item, show: phase number, description, accumulated artifacts
    • Options per item: Promote (move to active), Keep (leave in backlog), Remove (delete)
  4. For items to PROMOTE:

    • Find the next sequential phase number in the active milestone
    • Rename the directory from 999.x-slug to {new_num}-slug:
      NEW_NUM=$(gsd-tools query phase.add "${DESCRIPTION}" --raw)
      
    • Move accumulated artifacts to the new phase directory
    • Update ROADMAP.md: move the entry from ## Backlog section to the active phase list
    • Remove (BACKLOG) marker
    • Add appropriate **Depends on:** field
  5. For items to REMOVE:

    • Delete the phase directory
    • Remove the entry from ROADMAP.md ## Backlog section
  6. Commit changes:

    gsd-tools query commit "docs: review backlog — promoted N, removed M" --files .planning/ROADMAP.md
    
  7. Report summary:

    ## 📋 Backlog Review Complete
    
    Promoted: {list of promoted items with new phase numbers}
    Kept: {list of items remaining in backlog}
    Removed: {list of deleted items}
    
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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines 82166eabf8a7
  2. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 064b3a0b7879

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gsd-review-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-core (9,278 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.