gsd-review-backlog
SkillDev toolsReview and promote backlog items to active milestone
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Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the gsd-review-backlog skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by coco-research/coco in systems/gsd/skills/gsd-review-backlog/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
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List backlog items:
ls -d .planning/phases/999* 2>/dev/null || echo "No backlog items found" -
Read ROADMAP.md and extract all 999.x phase entries:
cat .planning/ROADMAP.mdShow each backlog item with its description, any accumulated context (CONTEXT.md, RESEARCH.md), and creation date.
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Present the list to the user via AskUserQuestion:
- For each backlog item, show: phase number, description, accumulated artifacts
- Options per item: Promote (move to active), Keep (leave in backlog), Remove (delete)
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For items to PROMOTE:
- Find the next sequential phase number in the active milestone
- Rename the directory from
999.x-slugto{new_num}-slug:NEW_NUM=$(node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" phase add "${DESCRIPTION}" --raw) - Move accumulated artifacts to the new phase directory
- Update ROADMAP.md: move the entry from
## Backlogsection to the active phase list - Remove
(BACKLOG)marker - Add appropriate
**Depends on:**field
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For items to REMOVE:
- Delete the phase directory
- Remove the entry from ROADMAP.md
## Backlogsection
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Commit changes:
node "$HOME/.claude/get-shit-done/bin/gsd-tools.cjs" commit "docs: review backlog — promoted N, removed M" --files .planning/ROADMAP.md -
Report summary:
## 📋 Backlog Review Complete Promoted: {list of promoted items with new phase numbers} Kept: {list of items remaining in backlog} Removed: {list of deleted items}
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- GitHub stars
- 220
- Forks
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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gsd-review-backlog- Source
- github.com/coco-research/coco