groom

groom is a skill for Claude Code from shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit. It costs 134 tokens per session (1,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only Jira ticket analysis skill that produces a readiness and specification brief before work is approved. Jira is a project-management tool used to track software tasks and issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for inspecting Jira configuration and tickets, identifying missing requirements, mapping likely areas of impact, and writing one grooming brief in the tasks directory.
Why use it?
It helps a team understand whether a ticket is clear enough to estimate and what parts of a project it may affect. It keeps this review separate from implementation and does not edit the ticket.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dev-day plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for inspecting Jira configuration and tickets, identifying missing requirements, mapping likely areas of impact, and writing one grooming brief in the tasks directory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit/groom
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 shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit --skill groom
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-day, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 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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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,504 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 $0.00134 $0.01504
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00752
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00150

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5862ed92145e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

groom 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 10d 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.

dev-day/skills/groom/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Groom — pre-grooming readiness brief

The user invoked /groom with: {{args}}

Pre-grooming analysis of a Jira ticket: a readiness + spec brief so the ticket can be groomed/estimated. Read-only — writes ONE artifact, touches no code and no Jira. If no argument, ask which ticket.

This runs BEFORE a ticket is approved to work. It answers "is this ready to estimate, and what will it touch" — not "how do I fix/build it" (that's /build, after grooming). It never plans an implementation, never assigns a story-point number, never edits Jira.

Discover the project's Jira config (cloudId + key) from the project CLAUDE.md — scan it for a line of the form Jira: cloudId=<uuid> key=<PROJECTKEY> and use those values; never hardcode a cloudId. If not found, ask for the cloudId + key.

Then resolve the Jira MCP dialect. Atlassian MCP servers differ per machine: one exposes camelCase names (mcp__atlassian__getJiraIssue) with cloudId REQUIRED; another exposes snake_case under a jira prefix and resolves the site internally, with no cloudId at all. If the tdd-pipeline plugin is installed, follow its references/jira-mcp.md. Otherwise probe inline: try the camelCase name via ToolSearch; if nothing resolves, search by keyword (ToolSearch "+jira issue") and use what comes back. Pass cloudId ONLY when the resolved schema has it — otherwise omit it and ignore the cloudId= half of the line. Never hardcode a tool name.

Steps

  1. Fetch the ticket. Using the get-issue verb resolved above: <get-issue tool>(issueIdOrKey=<TICKET>), adding cloudId=<discovered> only if its schema requires it. Also pull linked/sibling issues and attachments if referenced. Capture summary, description, issuetype, acceptance criteria, parent epic, comments.

  2. Restate the ask. One paragraph: what is actually being requested, in your own words, so a wrong reading surfaces at grooming — not mid-sprint. State assumptions explicitly.

  3. Acceptance-criteria audit. List the ACs verbatim. For each, judge: present? testable (observable pass/fail)? Flag missing, vague, or contradictory ACs as blockers to estimate — a ticket without testable ACs is not groom-ready.

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 10d ago First seen · 98 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 5862ed92145e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

groom is a skill published in the GitHub repository shashankreddy509/claude-tdd-kit (2 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,504 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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