Agent skill

Sprint Planner

by hamzafarooq in hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter

Turn a list of user stories or backlog items into a prioritized 2-week sprint plan with effort estimates and capacity check.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Sprint Planner

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter --skill sprint-planner -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter sprint-planner --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/sprint-planner .claude/skills/sprint-planner && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
sprint-planner
GitHub stars
145
Token cost
~346 tokens
SKILL.md length
153 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
29
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Turn a list of user stories or backlog items into a prioritized 2-week sprint plan with effort estimates and capacity check.

  • Works in 3 steps: "Paste your list of user stories or… → "How many engineers are on the team, and… → "What's the sprint goal — what does…
  • The user wants to plan a sprint
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Prioritize stories

What it does

Sprint Planner is an agent skill from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter. Turn a list of user stories or backlog items into a prioritized 2-week sprint plan with effort estimates and capacity check. Use when the user wants to plan a sprint, prioritize stories, or figure out what fits in two weeks.

Its SKILL.md is about 350 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Sprint planning and agile and User stories. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants to plan a sprint
  • Prioritize stories
  • Figure out what fits in two weeks

Example prompts

  • “/sprint-planner”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. "Paste your list of user stories or backlog items."
  2. "How many engineers are on the team, and are there any constraints this sprint (holidays, on-call, etc.)?"
  3. "What's the sprint goal — what does 'done' look like in 2 weeks?"

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 172c531. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sprint Planner loads about 346 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 153 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~346

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter at commit 172c531, republished under its MIT licence (© hamzafarooq). 153 words, ~346 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sprint-planner/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sprint-planner
description
Turn a list of user stories or backlog items into a prioritized 2-week sprint plan with effort estimates and capacity check. Use when the user wants to plan a sprint, prioritize stories, or figure out what fits in two weeks.

Ask the user:

  1. "Paste your list of user stories or backlog items."
  2. "How many engineers are on the team, and are there any constraints this sprint (holidays, on-call, etc.)?"
  3. "What's the sprint goal — what does 'done' look like in 2 weeks?"

Then produce:

Sprint Plan — [Sprint Name or Number]

Sprint goal: [one sentence] Capacity: [N engineers × 10 days = N story points / days available]


Must Do (Sprint Committed)
StoryEffort (S/M/L)Owner hintNotes
[story][S=0.5d, M=1-2d, L=3-5d][FE/BE/Full][dependency or risk]

Committed total: [X days] of [Y available]

Should Do (if capacity allows)

Stories that are next in priority but can slip to next sprint without breaking the goal.

Out of scope this sprint

Stories deliberately deferred — with one-line reason for each.


Risks:

  • [dependency on another team, unclear requirement, etc.]

Suggested check-ins: [mid-sprint review suggestion]


Flag any story that is too vague to estimate — ask for clarification before committing it.

© hamzafarooq, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/sprint-planner of hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 172c531

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Agile Product Ownerdavila7/claude-code-templates32k2 repos~256Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Sprint Planner

What does Sprint Planner do?

Turn a list of user stories or backlog items into a prioritized 2-week sprint plan with effort estimates and capacity check. Sprint Planner is an agent skill from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter. Turn a list of user stories or backlog items into a prioritized 2-week sprint plan with effort estimates and capacity check.

When should I use Sprint Planner?

Sprint Planner fits situations like: the user wants to plan a sprint; prioritize stories; figure out what fits in two weeks.

How do I install Sprint Planner in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter --skill sprint-planner -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/sprint-planner in hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter) into .claude/skills/sprint-planner in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sprint Planner in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter --skill sprint-planner -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/sprint-planner in hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter) into .agents/skills/sprint-planner in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sprint Planner in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter --skill sprint-planner -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sprint-planner, .gemini/skills/sprint-planner, .github/skills/sprint-planner and .opencode/skills/sprint-planner in your project.

What does Sprint Planner need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sprint Planner is instructions for the agent only.

Does Sprint Planner access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sprint Planner safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Sprint Planner use?

Sprint Planner is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Sprint Planner use?

About 346 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Sprint Planner?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Sprint Planner: Agile Product Owner (alirezarezvani/claude-skills, 28k stars), Walking Skeleton Roadmap Scoping (prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development, 181 stars), Epic Breakdown Advisor (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars) and Bmad Sprint Planning (delorenj/mcp-server-trello, 445 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Sprint Planner?

hamzafarooq (a GitHub user) maintains it in hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter, which has 145 GitHub stars. The repository holds 29 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 13, 2026.

Source: hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.