backlog-groom skillA
backlog-groom is agent-read markdown (skill) from flurdy/agent-skills: Per-bead backlog quality audit — flags thin descriptions, label drift, stale YAGNIs, mis-prioritised nice-to-haves, obvious splits, duplicates. Read-only; mutations need approval, dangerous ones one by one; judges quality, not template conformance..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Backlog Groom — Per-Bead Quality Audit Walk the **open backlog** and ask, for each bead: *is this any good?* Flag hygiene, priority, lifecycle, structure, and duplicate problems, propose a concrete fix for each, and **only mutate on explicit approval**. This is the hygiene counterpart to the intake/reconciliation skills — it is the only one that systematically reads every open bead and improves its quality. ## Relationship to other tools - **`/triage`** is *forward intake*: prompt/Jira → new bead(s), with dup-check and splitting **at creation time**. The groomer does not create beads from prompts and does not re-implement splitting — when a bead obviously needs splitting, it hands the bead to `/triage`. - **`/triage <bead-id>`** (refine mode) is the *depth* counterpart to this sweep: it investigates one existing bead against the code, then deepens, corrects, or splits it. Hand a bead there whenever grooming it needs real investigation rather than a one-shot edit — see the "be fast" rule below. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add flurdy/agent-skills/backlog-groom@v0.1.2mdr add flurdy/agent-skills/backlog-groom@sha256:e3d43f0b6b13dffcPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_qokiafunwtganooi)
1 badge views in 30 days
Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.2 latest | 2026-09-07 | 23d6b60 | 18,862 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-09-03 | 7267adf | 18,864 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-09-03 | cf76f5d | 19,228 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-09 | eda93ef | 19,230 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-07-29 | c2e967a | 18,694 B | A | view |
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 (18862 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
flurdy/agent-skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qokiafunwtganooi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=flurdy/agent-skills/backlog-groom GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e3d43f0b6b13dffce2b08a0e74322658bdc4acd262f8d0ba174c5daca6d3ddb4
Your agent does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.