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Backlog Grooming Assistant

Flags stale tickets, missing acceptance criteria, unestimated stories, and enforces backlog hygiene.

Category Agile & Sprint Ops
Included in Starter, Growth, Full Stack
Integration Jira Cloud API

How it works

This assistant serves as an automated backlog health auditor. It crawls your entire backlog and flags tickets that are missing critical information such as estimates (story points), acceptance criteria, or priority labels.

It also identifies 'stale' issues (tickets that have not been modified or commented on in over 30 days) and suggests batch cleaning, updating, or deprecating them to keep your backlog clean.

Actionable Output

A detailed backlog health report in your terminal with direct links to tickets needing attention, plus automated draft comments to nudge assignees on stale tasks.

~ operator run backlog-grooming

Scanning backlog for project 'SP'...
⚠️ Found 12 unestimated stories
⚠️ Found 8 tickets stale > 30 days
⚠️ Found 4 epics missing descriptions
Run --fix to auto-label stale items.

Prerequisites

  • ✓ Claude Code
  • ✓ Jira Cloud API Token
  • ✓ Target Project Key
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