backlog-groom SKILL.md skillA
backlog-groom from flurdy/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add flurdy/agent-skills/backlog-groom@v0.2.3Pins v0.2.3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- flurdy/agent-skills
- Path
skills/backlog-groom/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- v0.2.3, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 26,754 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Auto-detects workspace unfinished backlogs across unique stores; otherwise local open beads. Flags thin prose, missing labels, drift, lifecycle and duplicates. Report-only; mutations need approval, destructive ones individually.
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
# Backlog Groom — Per-Bead Quality Audit Walk the **selected 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 bead in scope 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@sha256:8282e2c0f5fa97efThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.3, 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_qokiafunwtganooi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.3 latest | 2026-10-28 | 16c467c | 26,754 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.2 | 2026-10-14 | 9d734e9 | 26,611 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.1 | 2026-10-11 | 277c7bf | 26,609 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-10-07 | 586b22c | 26,205 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 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 (26754 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 2026-11-03 · 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/8282e2c0f5fa97efcdf66fa713556b9dc0fcb24a694c6e5df16a90b30edd5922
Your AI assistant 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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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