graduate-backloglisted
Install: claude install-skill jrjsmrtn/project-orchestration-skills
# Backlog Graduation
Bridge a project's **in-repo backlog** onto a **forge issue tracker** at the moment the backlog
outgrows a single contributor. The orchestration skills author a rich in-repo backlog —
`docs/roadmap/roadmap.md` (phases → target versions → task lists), `docs/sprints/*.md`
(plans/retrospectives), a Nygard ADR sequence, and a Keep-a-Changelog `CHANGELOG.md`. Once more
than one person needs to see and claim that work, they need a tracker — but that transform is
manual and uncodified.
This skill performs it **conservatively**. The default is **thin-hybrid**: planning stays in-repo,
and the tracker holds only incoming/reactive work plus — at most — the current milestone's tactical
items. That is *light externalization*, not a board build-out. A richer board is opt-in (the
`roadmap-visible` level), justified by a real need for roadmap visibility.
> **The trigger is team scale, not exposure.** Graduation is driven by *who needs to see the work*
> — the same signal as the t0→t1 tier bump ("more than one contributor"). It is **not** gated on
> the **Public** distribution profile: a corporate team on an internal GitLab needs a board without
> ever open-sourcing, and a solo public repo may never need one. Exposure gates *compliance
> controls*, not *work organization*. (Workspace decision records: "Distribution-Profile Axis for
> Compliance Qualification", "Work-Organization Graduation: Thin-Hybrid Backlog Externalization",
> "Plugin Taxonomy by Lifecycle, Not Expo