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What problem does it solve?

This Skill streamlines task management by automatically identifying and resolving issues like completed tasks, duplicates, and stale items, ensuring your backlog remains actionable and prioritized.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Automated Cleanup: Closes expired deferred tasks, flags merged PRs for 'In Progress' tasks, and cascades closures for contingent dependencies.
  • Duplicate Detection: Scans for and flags duplicate tasks.
  • Categorization & Prioritization: Classifies tasks for deletion, reprioritization, or assignment, and recalculates priority scores based on defined formulas.
  • Use Case: Regularly run this skill to keep your project's task list clean, ensuring that only relevant and actionable items remain, and that they are correctly prioritized for the team.

Quick Start

Run the groom-backlog skill to analyze and optimize your current task list.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

gh

Components

scriptsreferences

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Name: groom-backlog
Download link: https://github.com/gioe/tusk/archive/main.zip#groom-backlog

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