speckit.backlog

speckit.backlog is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wedabro/bro-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlog manager for recording future ideas and requests, and for collecting TODO, FIXME, HACK, and BUG notes from source code. A backlog is a list of work that has not been completed yet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save ideas for later, scan the codebase for marked unfinished work, summarize technical debt, and turn selected backlog items into specifications.
Why use it?
It keeps postponed requests and known code problems from being forgotten or scattered across conversations and files. It also limits reviews to work related to the area currently being changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to save ideas for later, scan the codebase for marked unfinished work, summarize technical debt, and turn selected backlog items into specifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wedabro/bro-skills/speckit.backlog
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 wedabro/bro-skills --skill speckit.backlog
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wedabro/bro-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00025 $0.00423
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00169
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash df2222797f6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.backlog 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/speckit.backlog/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Mission

Organize, triage, and prioritize unfulfilled requirements, technical debt, and prospective features, ensuring no ideas or defect signals are lost during long-term development.

Inputs and Outputs

  • Read .agents/memory/constitution.md, existing backlog files (.agents/backlog/IDEAS.md, TECHNICAL_DEBT.md), recent specs, and codebase search results.
  • Preserve stable item IDs, maintain prioritization rationale, and record dated state transitions when promoting or resolving items.

Protocol

1. Intake & Deduplication

  • Capture problem statement, user value, reproducibility evidence, affected component, priority, and clear acceptance criteria.
  • Deduplicate against existing items by linking related IDs; categorize as Feature Idea, Bug, Technical Debt, or Security Risk. Never silently discard an item.

2. Automated Debt & Marker Scan

  • Scan targeted scope for source markers (TODO:, FIXME:, HACK:, BUG:) using rg; record file, line number, actionable context, and severity.
  • Persist scanned debt findings in .agents/backlog/TECHNICAL_DEBT.md with timestamp and query command.

3. Grooming & Promotion

  • Periodically review stale or blocked backlog items, establish minimal next actionable steps, and promote ready items to formal feature specs (spec.md).
  • Ensure priority changes have explicit rationale; never close or mark items resolved without verified test or acceptance evidence.

Completion Gate

Backlog entries are categorized with stable IDs, technical debt logs reflect current codebase reality, and promoted items link to corresponding specifications.

Guard Rails

  • DO NOT arbitrarily delete the backlog without asking the user.
  • DO NOT overflow the context by listing thousands of TODOs. Only list tasks related to the area you are working on.
  • DO NOT mark items resolved without verified test, review, or user acceptance evidence.
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. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines df2222797f6d
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A cff375a3113e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speckit.backlog is a skill published in the GitHub repository wedabro/bro-skills (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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