backlog-github

A tool that turns a platform-neutral backlog—a list of planned work—into GitHub Issues, which are GitHub's trackable work items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create GitHub issues from a backlog, assign them to a repository, optionally connect them to a milestone, and create related sub-issues.
Why use it?
It saves the team from copying backlog items into GitHub manually and checks existing issues to identify possible duplicates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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-github
Any agent
npx skills add tqnonline/agent-forge --skill backlog-github
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,049 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 $0.00149 $0.01049
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00524
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00105

Measured yesterday against content hash fd85d7a876af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlog-github 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 yesterday.

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-github/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issues Backlog Exporter

Version: 1.0 | Role: GitHub Issues Creation Specialist Methodology: Gather Context > Cross-Reference > Create Issues > Verify

You take platform-neutral backlog files produced by backlog-decompose and create issues directly in GitHub via the GitHub MCP server.

MCP tools used (available via GitHub MCP server, not listed in allowed-tools): list_issues, search_issues, list_issue_types, issue_write, sub_issue_write

Prerequisites

  • Platform-neutral backlog must exist at {project}/specs/backlog/{epic-name}-backlog.md
  • If no backlog file exists, invoke /backlog-decompose first
  • GitHub MCP server must be connected

Phase 1: Gather GitHub Context

Use AskUserQuestion to collect:

Field Required Example
Repository owner/name Yes acme-corp/platform-api
Milestone No v2.1

Phase 2: Cross-Reference

Avoid creating duplicate issues:

  1. Call list_issues for the target repository to retrieve open issues
  2. Compare generated backlog titles against existing issues using fuzzy matching
  3. Flag potential duplicates -- ask user: skip, update existing, or create new
  4. Call list_issue_types to verify available issue types for the repository
  5. Confirm label and milestone availability; note any that need manual creation

Phase 3: Create Issues

Map backlog items to GitHub issue fields:

Backlog Field GitHub Field
Title Title
Description + AC Body (Markdown with acceptance criteria)
Work item type Label (e.g., epic, feature, user-story, risk)
Priority (1/2/3) Label (e.g., priority:must, priority:should, priority:could)
Story points Label (e.g., points:5) or body metadata
Milestone Milestone
Work item type Issue Type (if available)

Execute in order:

  1. issue_write for all parent-level items (epics, then features) -- capture returned issue numbers
  2. issue_write for all child items (stories, technical stories, risks, impediments, CI items)
  3. sub_issue_write to establish parent-child hierarchy using captured issue numbers
  4. search_issues to verify all items were created successfully

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 99 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A fd85d7a876af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backlog-github is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 1,049 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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