backlog-github

backlog-github is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 149 tokens per session (1,049 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

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 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 GitHub issues from a backlog, assign them to a repository, optionally connect them to a milestone, and create related sub-issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/backlog-github
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-github
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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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. 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 $0.00149 $0.01049
Opus 5.5 $0.00060 $0.00420
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00210
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00105

Measured 2mo ago against content hash fd85d7a876af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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-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. 2mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A fd85d7a876af

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backlog-github is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 1,049 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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