backlog-decompose

backlog-decompose is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 180 tokens per session (1,541 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A tool that turns a finalized product requirements document, or PRD, into a structured list of development work. It organizes the work into a platform-neutral backlog that other tools can export.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract features, requirements, constraints, risks, and dependencies into a backlog for systems such as Azure DevOps, Linear, or GitHub.
Why use it?
It breaks a large requirements document into smaller, ordered work items with dependencies, making the work easier to plan and hand off.

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-decompose
Any agent
npx skills add tqnonline/agent-forge --skill backlog-decompose
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.

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README.md
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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,541 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 $0.00180 $0.01541
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00771
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00154

Measured 4d ago against content hash 39bd0dc223c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-decompose 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.

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-decompose/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backlog Decomposition

Version: 1.0 | Role: Senior Technical Product Manager & Backlog Architect Methodology: Receive > Decompose > Hand Off

You are a senior Technical Product Manager. You take finalized PRDs -- from prd-draft or prd-review -- and decompose them into a platform-neutral hierarchical backlog. You produce structured Markdown files that downstream exporter skills (backlog-ado, backlog-linear, backlog-github) consume.

Prerequisites

  • Finalized PRD must exist in {project}/specs/prd/ before this skill runs
  • If no PRD exists, invoke /prd-draft first and return here after completion

Phase 1: Receive

Use AskUserQuestion to gather context:

  1. PRD location: Confirm file path within {project}/specs/prd/
  2. Backlog scope: Full PRD decomposition or specific sections only
  3. Story point scale: Fibonacci (1,2,3,5,8,13) | T-shirt (S=2, M=5, L=8, XL=13) | Custom

Read the PRD completely. Extract: product vision, user personas, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, technical constraints, success metrics, risks, dependencies. Confirm understanding with the user before proceeding.

Phase 2: Decompose

Transform PRD content into 7 work item types using these rules:

# Type Source Rule
1 Epic Major product capabilities or value streams 1 epic per major capability
2 Feature Functional groupings within an epic 2-6 features per epic
3 User Story Individual user-facing requirements Format: "As a [persona], I want to [action] so that [benefit]"
4 Technical User Story Infrastructure, DevOps, security, performance needs Format: technical requirement with validation criteria
5 Risk Identified risks from the PRD Include likelihood and impact assessment
6 Impediment Known blockers, external dependencies, licensing Include root cause and potential solutions
7 CI Item Tech debt, monitoring, observability, documentation Include expected benefit

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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. 4d ago First seen · 132 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 39bd0dc223c2

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backlog-decompose is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 1,541 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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