backlog

backlog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ovid/paad. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,165 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for maintaining and fixing a project-wide bug backlog, which is a list of unresolved issues. It can recheck whether entries still exist or select the next entry for an end-to-end fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean outdated backlog entries or fix the next documented issue in paad/code-reviews/backlog.md.
Why use it?
It keeps the backlog from filling with already-fixed problems and provides a way to work through remaining issues systematically.

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/ovid/paad/backlog
Any agent
npx skills add Ovid/paad --skill backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ovid/paad

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,165 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 $0.00073 $0.03165
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01582
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00633
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00316

Measured 3d ago against content hash 469e33cfd3bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

preview/paad/skills/backlog/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

On invocation: announce "Running paad:backlog v1.31.0-preview", then immediately proceed with the steps below — do not stop after announcing.

Backlog

Experimental. Arguments, modes, and behavior may change — or this skill may be withdrawn — in any release, including a patch release. The semver promise the settled skills carry does not apply here. If you build a workflow on it, pin your plugin version and file what breaks.

Work the project-wide bug backlog at paad/code-reviews/backlog.md — the file /agentic-review writes its out-of-scope findings to. Two modes: Clean re-verifies every entry against the current code and drops the ones already fixed or gone; Fix picks the next entry and fixes it end-to-end. This is the always-available entry point into that backlog.

This is a technique skill. Follow the mode's steps in order. Two rules bind both modes and are the reason the skill exists:

  • This skill never runs git commit. It edits files and prints the commit command for the user to run — matching /agentic-review, which writes files and leaves committing to the user. Removing a backlog entry destroys a record; the user decides when that record change is committed and with what message. Printing the command is the deliverable, not an afterthought.
  • A backlog entry is deleted only on evidence read from the current code — never on doubt, and never on the skill's own say-so that it fixed something. An entry wrongly kept costs one line; an entry wrongly deleted silently loses a real bug.

Flow:

digraph backlog {
  "Invoked" [shape=doublecircle];
  "Backlog missing or empty?" [shape=diamond];
  "STOP: report empty, suggest /agentic-review" [shape=box, style=bold];
  "Mode from $ARGUMENTS?" [shape=diamond];
  "List entries; show menu; WAIT for choice" [shape=box];

  "CLEAN: one skeptical read-only analyst per entry" [shape=box];
  "Verdict, decided from code at the cited lines?" [shape=diamond];
  "Any doubt: KEEP the entry (never delete on ambiguity)" [shape=box, style=bold];
  "Delete RESOLVED/GONE entries + merge-losers" [shape=box];

  "FIX: rank by severity then age; propose top; WAIT for pick" [shape=box];
  "Fix the bug (directly or via /vibe)" [shape=box];
  "Independent read-only analyst reads code; best-effort tests (none: inspection only, never a pass alone)" [shape=box];
  "Analyst confirms the specific bug is gone?" [shape=diamond];
  "KEEP entry; report what is still wrong" [shape=box, style=bold];
  "Delete the entry" [shape=box];

  "Print the git commit command for the user; NEVER run git commit" [shape=box, style=bold];
  "Done" [shape=doublecircle];

  "Invoked" -> "Backlog missing or empty?";
  "Backlog missing or empty?" -> "STOP: report empty, suggest /agentic-review" [label="yes"];
  "Backlog missing or empty?" -> "Mode from $ARGUMENTS?" [label="no"];
  "Mode from $ARGUMENTS?" -> "List entries; show menu; WAIT for choice" [label="none"];
  "Mode from $ARGUMENTS?" -> "CLEAN: one skeptical read-only analyst per entry" [label="clean"];
  "Mode from $ARGUMENTS?" -> "FIX: rank by severity then age; propose top; WAIT for pick" [label="fix"];
  "List entries; show menu; WAIT for choice" -> "CLEAN: one skeptical read-only analyst per entry" [label="1 clean"];
  "List entries; show menu; WAIT for choice" -> "FIX: rank by severity then age; propose top; WAIT for pick" [label="2 fix"];

  "CLEAN: one skeptical read-only analyst per entry" -> "Verdict, decided from code at the cited lines?";
  "Verdict, decided from code at the cited lines?" -> "Any doubt: KEEP the entry (never delete on ambiguity)" [label="STILL-PRESENT / unsure"];
  "Verdict, decided from code at the cited lines?" -> "Delete RESOLVED/GONE entries + merge-losers" [label="RESOLVED / GONE, cited"];
  "Any doubt: KEEP the entry (never delete on ambiguity)" -> "Print the git commit command for the user; NEVER run git commit";
  "Delete RESOLVED/GONE entries + merge-losers" -> "Print the git commit command for the user; NEVER run git commit";

  "FIX: rank by severity then age; propose top; WAIT for pick" -> "Fix the bug (directly or via /vibe)";
  "Fix the bug (directly or via /vibe)" -> "Independent read-only analyst reads code; best-effort tests (none: inspection only, never a pass alone)";
  "Independent read-only analyst reads code; best-effort tests (none: inspection only, never a pass alone)" -> "Analyst confirms the specific bug is gone?";
  "Analyst confirms the specific bug is gone?" -> "Delete the entry" [label="yes"];
  "Analyst confirms the specific bug is gone?" -> "KEEP entry; report what is still wrong" [label="no"];
  "Delete the entry" -> "Print the git commit command for the user; NEVER run git commit";
  "KEEP entry; report what is still wrong" -> "Done";
  "Print the git commit command for the user; NEVER run git commit" -> "Done";
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 3d ago First seen · 177 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 469e33cfd3bd

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backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ovid/paad (105 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,165 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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