backlog-grooming

backlog-grooming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from risadams/ink-and-agency. It costs 62 tokens per session (950 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A skill for cleaning up and refining a product backlog—the list of planned work for a software product. It responds to requests such as backlog refinement, story cleanup, and sprint preparation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Refining user stories, organizing backlog items, and preparing work for a sprint.
Why use it?
It helps turn rough or outdated work items into a clearer list that a team can use for planning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the ink-and-agency plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Refining user stories, organizing backlog items, and preparing work for a sprint.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/risadams/ink-and-agency/backlog-grooming
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 risadams/ink-and-agency --skill backlog-grooming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/risadams/ink-and-agency

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ink-and-agency, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 950 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 unknown 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 $0.00062 $0.00950
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00095

Measured 11d ago against content hash 278d7b6958fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-grooming 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 11d 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.

skills/backlog-grooming/SKILL.md · 125 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 125 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 278d7b6958fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-grooming is a skill published in the GitHub repository risadams/ink-and-agency (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 950 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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