backlog-hygiene

backlog-hygiene is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TommyBez/evex. It costs 27 tokens per session (161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog-cleanup skill for Linear, a tool for tracking software work. It finds issues that are stale, obsolete, duplicated, unclear, missing an owner, or missing a priority.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan configured team and project backlogs, group problems by suggested action, and propose cleanup steps without applying them automatically.
Why use it?
It makes neglected or poorly described work easier to spot before it causes confusion or wasted effort.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to scan configured team and project backlogs, group problems by suggested action, and propose cleanup steps without applying them automatically.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tommybez/evex/backlog-hygiene
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 TommyBez/evex --skill backlog-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TommyBez/evex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 161 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 $0.00027 $0.00161
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9528dcd826e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-hygiene 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 9d 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.

registry/linear-operations-agent/agent/skills/backlog-hygiene/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Backlog hygiene

Use for backlog cleanup requests or weekly backlog hygiene schedules.

Process

  1. Read configured team and project backlogs. Done when each configured backlog has been scanned.
  2. Identify stale, obsolete, duplicate, ownerless, priorityless, and unclear issues.
  3. Group findings by recommended action.
  4. Keep bulk recommendations under the configured max bulk issue count unless asked otherwise.
  5. Propose cleanup actions instead of applying them automatically.

Output

Use the agent default response shape, plus backlog findings, suggested cleanup actions, duplicates or obsolete issues, and clarification candidates.

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. 9d ago First seen · 25 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 9528dcd826e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository TommyBez/evex (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 161 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 2026-08-30.

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