backlog

backlog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SienkLogic/plan-build-run. It costs 23 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A parking area for ideas that are not ready for active project planning. Items can be added, reviewed, promoted, or removed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps record future work, list backlog items, and move selected ideas into active project phases.
Why use it?
It keeps unfinished ideas from cluttering the current plan while preserving them for later decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the pbr plugin — 45 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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/sienklogic/plan-build-run/backlog
Any agent
npx skills add SienkLogic/plan-build-run --skill backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SienkLogic/plan-build-run

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install pbr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 71 commands, 18 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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 $0.00023 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00054

Measured today against content hash aa76437f529f, 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 today.

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/pbr/skills/backlog/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

STOP — DO NOT READ THIS FILE. You are already reading it.

/pbr:backlog — Backlog Parking Lot

Manage ideas that aren't ready for active planning. Backlog items use 999.x numbering to stay outside the active phase sequence. They can be promoted to active phases when ready.

Step 0 — Banner

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  PLAN-BUILD-RUN ► BACKLOG                                    ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Subcommands

/pbr:backlog add <description>

  1. Create .planning/phases/ directory if needed
  2. Find next 999.x number: scan for existing 999.* dirs, increment
  3. Generate slug from description
  4. Create .planning/phases/999.{x}-{slug}/
  5. Write a minimal PLAN.md with just the description as objective (no tasks — this is a placeholder)
  6. Display: Backlog item 999.{x}: {description}

/pbr:backlog review

  1. Scan .planning/phases/999.* directories
  2. If none found: display "No backlog items." and exit
  3. For each item, read its PLAN.md objective
  4. Display all items in a numbered list
  5. Use AskUserQuestion for each item:
    • Promote — Move to active milestone (renumber into current sequence)
    • Keep — Leave in backlog
    • Remove — Delete the directory

/pbr:backlog promote <N>

  1. Find the 999.{N} directory
  2. Determine next active phase number (highest non-999 phase + 1)
  3. Rename directory from 999.{N}-{slug} to {next}-{slug}
  4. Update ROADMAP.md to include the new phase
  5. Display: Promoted backlog item to Phase {next}: {slug}

Anti-Patterns

  1. DO NOT create backlog items for work that should be a todo — backlog is for phase-level ideas
  2. DO NOT auto-promote items — always require user decision
  3. DO NOT renumber existing active phases when promoting
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. today First seen · 57 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A aa76437f529f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository SienkLogic/plan-build-run (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 538 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.

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