hatch3r-board-groom

What problem does it solve?

This Skill prevents backlog decay by continuously refining GitHub/Azure DevOps/GitLab board work items so priorities, scope, labels, and dependencies stay accurate and actionable.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Performs a full board scan across open issues/work items, caching items, parent/child structure, and dependency references from issue bodies.
• Computes board health insights including stale items, missing required labels, dependency drift (stale/orphaned/block chains), priority imbalance, duplicate/overlap candidates, and sync drift between labels and project board columns.
• Executes controlled grooming actions like reprioritize, reclassify, re-scope, demote to triage, archive stale items, decompose oversized epics, merge duplicates, refresh dependency data, relink sub-issues, regroup standalones into epics, and apply health remediation.
• Maintains safety guardrails via checkpoints by asking for confirmation at major stages and only applying user-selected actions.

Quick Start

Run board grooming with the hatch3r workflow so it scans your repository’s board items, summarizes refinement opportunities, and prompts you to choose which actions to apply.