delegate-backlog

delegate-backlog is a skill for Cursor from theam/claude-dev-kit. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,846 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An asynchronous work distributor for approved GitHub issues, using GitHub Copilot coding agent to work on several issues in parallel. Each issue gets its own branch and pull request, followed by review and possible fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Sending an approved backlog to Copilot coding agent, tracking the issue-to-branch-to-pull-request relationships, and reviewing the returned pull requests.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to implement approved stories one at a time in an interactive session. The delegated work does not receive the normal in-session checks until the resulting pull requests are reviewed.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the fullstack-dev-kit plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Sending an approved backlog to Copilot coding agent, tracking the issue-to-branch-to-pull-request relationships, and reviewing the returned pull requests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theam/claude-dev-kit/delegate-backlog
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 theam/claude-dev-kit --skill delegate-backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theam/claude-dev-kit

Made for: Cursor.

Or install fullstack-dev-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,846 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 $0.00107 $0.01846
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00738
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00185

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 83a5df06928e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delegate-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 1mo 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.

plugins/fullstack-dev-kit/skills/delegate-backlog/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegate Backlog

Fan an already-approved backlog out to a real async coding agent so several stories are built in parallel — one branch, one PR per issue — and then re-apply the kit's quality on the PRs that come back. This is the async, throughput-first alternative to work-story (which works one story at a time, interactively, in your session).

Experimental (v1). GitHub + Copilot coding agent only, and it leans on a young GitHub surface (§3–§4) — verify the mechanism is current and expect it to change.

Be honest about the trade-off. On the delegated path the kit's in-session gates do not run — the plan-approval gate, coverage/security/e2e, and stack conventions are your session's guarantees; an external agent runs its own loop. What the kit re-adds is at the end: pr-review / fix-pr on each resulting PR. So delegate-backlog trades the kit's gates for throughput, and buys the quality back on review. Say this to the user; never present a delegated PR as if the kit's gates produced it.

When to use vs. work-story

  • work-story <KEY> — one story, interactively, with the full in-session gates. The default; highest assurance.
  • delegate-backlog — many stories at once, async, gates re-applied on review. Use it for parallel throughput when the user explicitly wants to fan out a backlog and accepts the trade-off.

0. Preconditions (verify, don't assume)

  1. An approved backlog exists. Delegate only stories the user has approved (typically the output of plan-backlog). If there's no approved backlog, run plan-backlog first — don't invent scope.
  2. The tracker is GitHub. v1 targets GitHub Copilot coding agent only. If tracker.type isn't github, stop and say async delegation isn't available for this tracker yet (other targets are a later step).
  3. The async target is real and enabled — see §3. Never fabricate a trigger (same doctrine as the "no fabricated automation" guard: the kit has no invented /builder-style mechanism).

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 83a5df06928e

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delegate-backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository theam/claude-dev-kit (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,846 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-29.