Backlog Triage — Development skill for Claude Code

backlog-triage 待办分诊

A backlog that only grows is not a plan — it is an anxiety list. Turn it into a bounded queue of decisions.

只进不出的待办清单不是计划，是焦虑清单。把它变成一组有限的决策。

Why / 为什么

Backlogs fail in two directions: items that were silently abandoned keep resurfacing as guilt, and "urgent" is whoever asked last. The fix is dispositions with reasons — every item leaves the triage with exactly one of six fates, and dropping is an explicit decision rather than an accident.

待办清单的两种失败：被默默放弃的事项反复浮现成负罪感；"紧急"等于谁最后催了谁。解法是带理由的分类——每条待办分诊后恰好落到六种命运之一，放弃是显式决策而非意外。

The six dispositions / 六种分类

Disposition	Meaning
now	this session, before anything new
next	first pick when capacity frees up
scheduled	dated and parked — the date is visible
waiting	someone else owes the move; the ask is named
reference	information, not a task
drop	leaves the list; the reason is recorded

How it runs / 怎么跑

1. Sweep every source — notes, chat pins, inbox flags, the previous list — into one inventory.
2. Classify each item with a reason; cluster the now set so the session has at most a handful.
3. Reconcile commitments — anything that changes a promise to another person (deadline moves, scope cuts) goes into one approval batch for the user; the agent drafts, the user sends.
4. Write the list back — dated, dispositions visible, dropped items recorded with their reason in an archive section instead of deleted silently.

Rules that do the work: *scheduled means a real date or it is not scheduled*; *waiting means the pending move is named*; *drop is a decision, so it gets a reason and an archive line*.

Install / 安装

npx skills add ChenneyZhuang/backlog-triage

Per-agent paths and runtime requirements: see [COMPATIBILITY.md](COMPATIBILITY.md). MIT. v0.1.0.

各 agent 安装路径与运行时要求见 COMPATIBILITY.md。MIT 许可，v0.1.0。