backlog-ado

backlog-ado is a skill for Claude Code, Codex 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 CodeCodex

Part of the pm plugin — 10 skills 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/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-ado
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, Codex.

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
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Your own site
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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. 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 $0.00175 $0.01289
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.00645
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00129

Measured 4d ago against content hash cd9ec462f815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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. 4d ago First seen · 112 lines · 175 tokens per session scan A cd9ec462f815

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backlog-ado is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 175 tokens to every session and 1,289 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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