backlog SKILL.md skillA

backlog from gabrielbsandim/task-funnel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add gabrielbsandim/task-funnel/backlog@git:20261020.5ec3e90

Pins git:20261020.5ec3e90 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
gabrielbsandim/task-funnel
Path
skills/backlog/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261020.5ec3e90, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 18, 2026
Size
4,530 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Grooms an open backlog before the next task is picked: finds issues that are the same work, adopts orphans into the epic they belong to, and proposes what can ship in one pull request. Read-only until the user approves each move. Use when the board feels like it only grows, before planning a sprint or picking the next issue, or on /backlog [epic-number].

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: make the board readable before working from it

A board that reads as an endless list is usually not a board that is growing. It is
a board whose structure is invisible. Measured on 2026-08-17 in the repository this
was built against: 18 open issues, 107 created against 108 closed over ten days, so
flat. What made it feel endless was one epic with ten open children across three
levels, and two issues with no parent at all sitting next to them as flat rows.

So this skill does not delete work and does not close issues to make a number go
down. It answers three questions with evidence, and every move needs the user's yes.

Input: an epic number, a label, or nothing, in which case groom the whole open
backlog.

## What it may and may not do

- **Read freely.** Issues, bodies, labels, the sub-issue tree, the diffs of anything
  already merged.
- **Propose in writing**, grouped, with the evidence under each proposal.
- **Act only on an explicit yes, one group at a time.** Adopting a child, editing a
  title, adding a label, commenting, closing as duplicate: each is a separate ask.
- **Never close an issue as "stale" or "probably done"** without naming the commit
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add gabrielbsandim/task-funnel/backlog@sha256:c70f8ad84c0296db

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.5ec3e90, 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

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_v5gxswt3r5v76xvj.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_v5gxswt3r5v76xvj)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 32 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261020.5ec3e90 latest2026-10-20 5ec3e90 4,530 BA view · diff
git:20260823.29f3a392026-08-23 29f3a39 4,446 BA view · diff
git:20260818.e2d2f382026-08-18 e2d2f38 4,444 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4530 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

GitHub

gabrielbsandim/task-funnel · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v5gxswt3r5v76xvj
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=gabrielbsandim/task-funnel/backlog
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c70f8ad84c0296db1adbf1a313fabc71b6ed26b4ce8fc9649e6d41af6687cada

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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