Backlog

The backlog is the work-intake home — latent work intent captured as issue, improvement, chore, risk, or idea items, triaged and promoted into slices.

needs = hard dependency. after = soft ordering (suggestion).

The CLI is the source of truth for exact flags: doctrine backlog --help

Creating new backlog items:

• Determine kind membership / validity
• Survey backlog for potential duplicates / neighbors
• Prefer expanding / improving an appropriate existing item
• Choose a clear, concise title
• Create the new backlog item
• Read & fill its template
• Tag it appropriately and consistently
• Record any dependencies and appropriate sequencing priorities

Verbs

See doctrine backlog --help for the full verb list and flags.

Kind membership

See lib:reference/using-doctrine.md § Which home for which record for the backlog kinds and the work-intake membership test.

Status lifecycle

See doctrine backlog edit --help for the status/resolution values and their coupling.

Tags

See doctrine backlog tag --help for the tag syntax and the --remove flag.

Dependencies

See doctrine backlog needs --help and doctrine backlog after --help for the hard/soft dependency semantics.

Rules

• See doctrine backlog --help — the id prefix auto-selects the kind.
• See lib:reference/using-doctrine.md § Which home for which record — a risk is admitted only as unresolved work-risk.
• Don't hand-edit backlog TOML (lib:reference/using-doctrine.md § storage tiers) — use the verb; prose (*.md) is hand-edited.
• See doctrine backlog list --help — terminal items are hidden by default; --all or an explicit --status reveals them.