Plan Backlog — Development skill for Claude Code
Turn an idea, brief, or document into a well-formed backlog and create it in your tracker after approval.
How to install Plan Backlog
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/theam-claude-dev-kit-plan-backlog/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/theam-claude-dev-kit-plan-backlog && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theam/claude-dev-kit/HEAD/commands/plan-backlog.md -o ~/.claude/skills/theam-claude-dev-kit-plan-backlog/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Plan Backlog does
description: Turn an idea, brief, or document into a well-formed backlog and create it in your tracker after approval. Guided by default; --quick for a one-shot draft. Usage - /plan-backlog [--quick]
Turn the idea/brief given in the arguments into a backlog: $ARGUMENTS
Follow the `plan-backlog` skill. It has two modes; pick per invocation (never persist a mode — a mature project can hold a brand-new feature):
Rules:
- If the arguments contain no
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