backlog-workflow

backlog-workflow is a skill for Claude Code from restarter/lets-workflow. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow asset for reviewing a backlog, which is a list of possible tasks or ideas, through several organized stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explore a project, generate and group backlog ideas, select relevant agents, and discuss the resulting priorities.
Why use it?
It moves large groups of brainstorming results outside the main conversation while preserving the review process and final discussion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the lets plugin — 20 skills, 26 commands, 16 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps explore a project, generate and group backlog ideas, select relevant agents, and discuss the resulting priorities.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add restarter/lets-workflow
Claude Code
/plugin install lets

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lets, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 26 commands, 16 agents.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,100 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 $0.00051 $0.01100
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00440
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00110

Measured 1mo ago against content hash aa2ff3cc39cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-workflow 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (backlog.workflow.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/lets/skills/backlog-workflow/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

backlog-workflow (Dynamic Workflow asset)

A Dynamic Workflow asset (see CLAUDE.md -> "Dynamic Workflow Assets"; review-workflow is the reference example). backlog.workflow.js is executed by the Workflow tool, invoked from /lets:backlog's Workflow Mode via:

Workflow({ scriptPath: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/backlog-workflow/backlog.workflow.js", args })

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is substituted at command-load time, so backlog.md carries the literal absolute path. Treat backlog.workflow.js as a template the command points at, not a script to reproduce inline.

Why this is a transparent performance lever (not autonomous)

/lets:backlog review --workflow produces the SAME result as the standard Task path - only the per-agent backlog-idea dumps stay off-context. The explorer scout (Phase 1) and the signal-driven agent selection (Phase 2) stay IN-CONTEXT in backlog.md; the ideate fan-out (Phase 3) and the aggregate/cluster (Phase 4) move into the workflow (off-context). The interactive dialog (Phase 5) + capture (Phase 6) stay in-context after the aggregate returns. There is no Web Research stage: the standard backlog Phase 3 ideates over the project's own profile + CLAUDE.md without web search, so adding web here would diverge the two paths - --workflow must stay a pure context-savings lever, same findings. The cluster is a SEMANTIC dedupe + impact-sort (an off-context merge), not a quality gate.

What it does (off-context)

  1. Ideate - fan out the selected lets:<name> agents in parallel over the explorer's Project State Profile + CLAUDE.md (structured IDEA_SCHEMA: title, category=missing|adjust|theme, impact, description). adjust ideas embed the referenced task as Title (task-id) in description.
  2. Cluster (off-context agent + deterministic attribution) - a neutral subagent (no agentType) groups raw ideas into themes, merging ideas that make the same point even when worded differently (CLUSTER_SCHEMA: themes carrying member indices). buildThemes computes each theme's agents[] + impact deterministically (high if any member is high) and guarantees no idea is dropped. Falls back to title-only dedup (clusterIdeas) if the cluster agent errors or returns nothing; skips the agent for <=1 idea.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A aa2ff3cc39cc

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backlog-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,100 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.