audit-github-backlog SKILL.md skillB

audit-github-backlog from vzakharov/muthur is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vzakharov/muthur/audit-github-backlog@git:20261014.0f16275

Pins git:20261014.0f16275 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vzakharov/muthur
Path
.claude/skills/audit-github-backlog/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261014.0f16275, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 28, 2026
Size
21,540 bytes
Repository stars
22
License
MIT

Sweep the whole open GitHub backlog — every open issue and PR — judging each against today's code, and produce a reviewable close/refile/keep plan that also assigns a P0–P3 priority to everything it keeps. Fans out one analyst per bucket over locally-dumped threads, holds the cross-cutting sweeps centrally, and asserts coverage before reporting. Closes and comments on nothing. Use when the user says "audit the backlog", "triage the backlog", "sweep the issues", "prioritise the backlog…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# `/audit-github-backlog` — the whole-backlog sweep

Judge **every** open issue and PR against the code as it is today, and leave a
reviewable plan saying what to close, refile, or keep — with the evidence, and
with a priority on everything that survives.

This is a read-and-decide pass. It closes, comments on, relabels, and edits
**nothing** on GitHub.

**Writing the plan is part of this skill, not a handoff to a later one.** Step 5
runs `@.claude/skills/plan/SKILL.md` and the plan file is this skill's output —
there is one document, in the normal plan lifecycle, not an audit report some
later session turns into a plan. Only _execution_ is separate, through `/go`,
and that gate is the point: the output is a bulk close list, and the only thing
worse than an unreviewed backlog is an unreviewed automated purge of one.

## This is a living document

Everything here was distilled from a **single** run over a 213-issue backlog. It
is right about what that run hit and unproven about everything else, so treat it
as the current best account rather than a settled procedure.

**While running it, collect what it gets wrong** — a trap it does not warn
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vzakharov/muthur/audit-github-backlog@sha256:746744d1709ec87f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.0f16275, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_alcs3f4rmcrrl2k2.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_alcs3f4rmcrrl2k2)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 12 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261014.0f16275 latest2026-10-14 0f16275 21,540 BB view · diff
git:20261013.4e5c0412026-10-13 4e5c041 21,542 BB view · diff
git:20260911.1a51f232026-09-11 1a51f23 22,751 BB view · diff
git:20260909.49981492026-09-09 4998149 22,749 BB view · diff
git:20260828.eab4dc72026-08-28 eab4dc7 22,770 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21540 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

vzakharov/muthur · 22 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_alcs3f4rmcrrl2k2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vzakharov/muthur/audit-github-backlog
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/746744d1709ec87ff42d02f4f713bc006ce291c46e3ec08dde337b45e823b9b5

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