Add PR backlog reflection skill

[brylie]

Summary

• add a project-aware skill for turning concrete, out-of-scope PR observations into deduplicated backlog candidates
• distinguish current-PR findings from independent follow-up work
• require evidence, duplicate checks, and scoped issue outcomes

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• skill frontmatter and body structure check

This adds no product-code changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance for identifying actionable follow-up work from pull requests.
  • Clarified how to distinguish backlog candidates from active review findings and unvalidated notes.
  • Documented duplicate tracking checks and reporting practices without modifying code or issue tracking.

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• .agents/skills/pr-backlog-reflection/SKILL.md

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added the pr-backlog-reflection skill. The skill defines how to identify, validate, classify, de-duplicate, and report follow-up work from pull requests without modifying code or GitHub unless authorized.

Changes

Backlog reflection workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define backlog reflection workflow .agents/skills/pr-backlog-reflection/SKILL.md	Adds metadata and guidance for scope boundaries, evidence gathering, candidate classification, duplicate checks, repository backlog conventions, and structured reporting.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 59da0

This adds guidance for turning verified out-of-scope observations into deduplicated backlog candidates without changing product behavior or performing unauthorized mutations. No current merge-readiness risk remains.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the PR backlog reflection skill.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

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• Commit unit tests in branch codex/pr-backlog-reflection

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