backlog-ado

backlog-ado is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 175 tokens per session (1,289 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A tool that converts a platform-neutral backlog—a list of planned work—into an Excel workbook formatted for import into Azure DevOps, a work-tracking platform.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an import workbook for SAFe epics, features, and other work items, using project paths, iteration paths, release details, and priorities.
Why use it?
It removes the manual field mapping needed to turn backlog items into Azure DevOps SAFe work items.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the pm plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create an import workbook for SAFe epics, features, and other work items, using project paths, iteration paths, release details, and priorities.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado
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 tqnonline/agent-forge --skill backlog-ado
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm, 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.

agentmods badge for backlog-ado

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for backlog-ado

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 175 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,289 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 $0.00175 $0.01289
Opus 5.5 $0.00070 $0.00516
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00129

Measured 2mo ago against content hash cd9ec462f815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-ado 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/ado_workbook_builder.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/pm/skills/backlog-ado/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure DevOps Backlog Exporter

Version: 1.0 | Role: Azure DevOps SAFe Backlog Specialist Methodology: Gather Context > Map Fields > Generate Workbook > Deliver

You take platform-neutral backlog files produced by backlog-decompose and transform them into Azure DevOps SAFe-compliant Excel workbooks ready for CSV import.

Prerequisites

  • Platform-neutral backlog must exist at {project}/specs/backlog/{epic-name}-backlog.md
  • If no backlog file exists, invoke /backlog-decompose first
  • xlsx skill for workbook generation
  • scripts/ado_workbook_builder.py (optional) for automated workbook assembly via Bash

Phase 1: Gather ADO Context

Use AskUserQuestion to collect:

Field Example
Area Path MyProject\TeamA
Iteration Path prefix MyProject\PI-4\Sprint-
PI or Release number PI-4 or Release 2.1
Default Priority 1 (Must), 2 (Should), or 3 (Could)

Phase 2: Map to ADO SAFe Fields

Read the backlog file and map each work item to its ADO-specific field schema. All 7 types use the SAFe process template fields. Key fields per type:

  • Epic: Title, Description, Expected Benefits, Measure Indicators, Area, Iteration, Priority, Risk, Value Area, Start/Target Date, State
  • Feature: Title, Description, Business Drivers, Critical Value, In Scope, Out of Scope, Priority, Risk, Effort, Business Value, Time Criticality, Value Area
  • User Story: Title, Description (As a/I want/So that), Issues and Assumptions, Acceptance Criteria, Story Points, Priority, Risk, Release Number, Value Area (Business)
  • Technical User Story: Same as User Story but Value Area = Architectural, State Reason = "Moved to state New"
  • Risk: Title, Description, Business Impact, Likelihood (1-5), Impact (A-E), Risk Assessment (1-5), Mitigation Plan
  • Impediment: Title, Description (What is blocked), Cause, Business Impact, Possible Solutions, Resolution, Priority, State
  • CI Item: Title, Description, Expected Benefit

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2mo ago First seen · 112 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A cd9ec462f815

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-ado is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 1,289 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

google-workspace-ops

Operate across Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides as one workflow surface for plans, trackers, decks, and shared documents. Use when the user needs to find, summarize, edit, migrate, or clean up Google Workspace assets without dropping to raw tool calls.

hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins · 59 tokens

slack-report-delivery

Deliver formatted network reports, audit results, topology diagrams, and compliance documentation to Slack channels with rich Block Kit formatting. Use when posting a health check report, sharing a security audit, delivering topology diagrams, or sending scheduled network reports to Slack.

automateyournetwork/netclaw · 54 tokens

import-spreadsheet

Import rows from a CSV or Excel file into a Taskade project (leads, contacts, jobs, products, inventory), skip duplicates, and fill custom fields. Use when the user says "import this spreadsheet into Taskade", "add these leads to my CRM", "load this CSV into my app", or attaches a CSV or XLSX and names a Taskade…

taskade/mcp · 83 tokens

资料库

A workflow for managing WorkBuddy's shared content area, including online documents, structured tables, pages, links, and stored files. It supports content creation, organisation, sharing, collaboration, and light publishing.

rojim666/SztuCode · 212 tokens

aaif-sync-chapters

Push accepted intake cities and organizer names onto the public Chapters List sheet — appending a row for a city that has none, merging organizer names into the row that exists — and audit every chapter row's Luma page. Reports and proposes by default; writes only on explicit approval. Use when asked to add a new city…

aaif/community-events · 102 tokens

estimate

A development-estimation tool that analyzes project plans or source code and creates an Excel estimate grouped by development, labor, cloud, API, and miscellaneous costs.

Dannykkh/skill-olympus · 66 tokens