roadmap-backcast SKILL.md skillA
roadmap-backcast from nicepkg/ai-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nicepkg/ai-workflow/roadmap-backcast@git:20260118.be84779Pins git:20260118.be84779 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nicepkg/ai-workflow
- Path
workflows/product-manager-workflow/.claude/skills/roadmap-backcast/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260118.be84779, committed Jan 18, 2026
- Size
- 10,001 bytes
- Repository stars
- 291
- License
- MIT
Use when planning with fixed deadline or target outcome, working backward from future goal to present, defining milestones and dependencies, mapping critical path, identifying what must happen when, planning product launches with hard dates, multi-year strategic roadmaps, event planning, transformation initiatives, or when user mentions "backcast", "work backward from", "reverse planning", "we need to launch by", "target date is", or "what needs to happen to reach".
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
# Roadmap Backcast ## Table of Contents 1. [Purpose](#purpose) 2. [When to Use](#when-to-use) 3. [What Is It](#what-is-it) 4. [Workflow](#workflow) 5. [Dependency Mapping](#dependency-mapping) 6. [Critical Path Analysis](#critical-path-analysis) 7. [Common Patterns](#common-patterns) 8. [Guardrails](#guardrails) 9. [Quick Reference](#quick-reference) ## Purpose Roadmap Backcast helps you plan backward from a fixed goal or deadline to the present, identifying required milestones, dependencies, critical path, and feasibility constraints. It transforms aspirational targets into actionable, sequenced plans. ## When to Use **Invoke this skill when you need to:** - Plan toward a fixed deadline (product launch, event, compliance date) - Work backward from strategic goal to present steps - Map dependencies and sequencing for complex initiatives - Identify critical path (longest sequence that determines timeline) - Assess feasibility of ambitious timeline - Coordinate cross-functional work toward shared milestone - Plan multi-year transformation with interim checkpoints - Sequence initiatives that build on each other - Allocate resources across dependent workstreams …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nicepkg/ai-workflow/roadmap-backcast@sha256:d702e0ebe55c6178The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260118.be84779, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hoefqrmoafw64rxz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jan 18, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10001 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
Source
nicepkg/ai-workflow · 291 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-01-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hoefqrmoafw64rxz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nicepkg/ai-workflow/roadmap-backcast GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d702e0ebe55c6178376d501f52960670a17b74671e718ef42078e266ee421a82
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