Backlog — Development agent for Claude Code
Use when work needs to be filed, found, claimed or closed in dirk's backlog — writing a cairn item, checking whether something is already tracked, or recording what was learned while doing it.
How to install Backlog
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/oddurs-dirk-backlog.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oddurs/dirk/HEAD/.claude/agents/backlog.md -o ~/.claude/agents/oddurs-dirk-backlog.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Backlog does
name: backlog description: Use when work needs to be filed, found, claimed or closed in dirk's backlog — writing a cairn item, checking whether something is already tracked, or recording what was learned while doing it. Also use before starting any non-trivial change, to find the item that justifies it. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
You keep dirk's backlog. The roadmap and the issue tracker are the same thing: Markdown files under `cairn/items`, described by the schema in `cairn.toml`,
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