bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD

bmad-build-auto

One iteration of an unattended development loop. Use when invoked by name

bmad-build

Turns implementation work into working code, reviewed and verified. Use when the user delegates a feature, story, bug fix, or meaningful change; a bare story or issue link counts. Skip obvious, low-risk mechanical maintenance such as small ignore-file,…

bmad-ticket

Create and manage tickets — initiatives, epics, stories, bugs. Use when the user says "create a new initiative", "slice this initiative", "split this epic up", "break this into stories", "incept this epic", "make a ticket", "refine this ticket", "what's…

bmod-method

Required bmod metadata. Never invoke this skill.

bmad-retrospective

Review a finished epic folder in the ticket tree against the evidence it left behind — the epic file, each ticket plan, diffs, commits — and produce a retrospective with sourced findings, action items, and an acceptance decision. Use when the user says "run a…

bmad

Answers BMad questions and recommends the next skill from what is installed. Use when the user asks bmad for help, what to do next or where to start; to set up, update, repair, doctor, migrate or check the status of the installation, or add modules; or to see…

bmad-brainstorming

Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate'

bmad-customize

Authors and updates customization overrides for installed BMad skills. Use when the user says 'customize bmad', 'override a skill', 'change agent behavior', or 'customize a workflow'

bmad-deep-recon

Research a topic to support a decision, three ways: draft a research prompt for the user to run in their own tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, …), turn a finished research report into a short summary with cited sources that other skills can use…

bmad-prd

Create, update, or validate a PRD. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a PRD

bmad-project-context

Set up, adopt, refresh, or audit a repository's agent instructions (the AGENTS.md block) so AI agents work well in that repo. Also records observed agent mistakes as pitfalls. Use when invoked by name

bmad-ux

Capture the user's UX vision in two documents: DESIGN.md for how the product looks and EXPERIENCE.md for how it behaves. Use when the user says "lets create UX design" or "create UX specifications" or "help me plan the UX"

bmod-core-tools

Required bmod metadata. Never invoke this skill.

bmad-advanced-elicitation

Push the LLM to reconsider, refine, and improve its recent output. Use when user asks for deeper critique or mentions a known deeper critique method, e.g. socratic, first principles, pre-mortem, red team

bmad-forge-idea

Test a half-formed idea in a questioning conversation, with different personas probing its weak points, until the user can act on it or drop it with confidence. Optionally writes a short brief for planning skills to build on. Use when the user says 'forge an…

bmad-party-mode

Orchestrates lively group discussions between installed BMAD agents or custom personas, and helps author custom parties. Use when the user requests party mode, a roundtable, or multiple agent perspectives — or wants to create/configure a party, define…

bmad-review

Runs one or more installed review lenses — adversarial critique, edge cases, verification gaps, structure, prose — and reports triaged findings. Use when, and only when, the user asks you to review a diff, a pull request, or an artifact — code or documents,…

bmad-code-review

Review code changes with several independent reviewers in parallel, then triage and present the findings. Use when the user says "run code review" or "review this code"

bmad-spec

Condense any input — an idea, brief, PRD, transcript, or mixed notes — into a short spec: one kernel file plus supporting files that downstream skills build from. Also updates and validates existing specs. Use when the user says "create a spec", "distill this…

bmad-agent-analyst

Business analyst for market research, competitive analysis, and requirements. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst

bmad-agent-architect

System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect

bmad-agent-dev

Senior software engineer who implements stories and code changes. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent

bmad-agent-pm

Product manager for PRD creation and requirements discovery. Use when the user asks to talk to John or requests the product manager

bmad-agent-ux-designer

UX designer and UI specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sally or requests the UX designer

bmad-architecture

Work out and record the architecture decisions that keep separately built parts of a system consistent, in a short architecture document. Creates, updates, or validates one; works from a spec, a raw idea, or an existing codebase. Use when the user says…

bmad-correct-course

Assess the impact of a significant change during sprint execution across the PRD, epics, architecture, and UX documents, and produce a sprint change proposal. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change"

bmad-prfaq

Test a product concept with Amazon's Working Backwards method: write the press release for the finished product first, then answer hard customer and stakeholder questions, ending in a complete PRFAQ document. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ',…

bmad-product-brief

Create, update, or validate a product brief. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a brief

bmad-qa-generate-e2e-tests

Generate automated API and end-to-end tests for implemented features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"

bmad-walkthrough

Guide a human review of a commit, PR, file, or directory. Use when invoked by name

deprecated-shim

DEPRECATED — consolidated into bmad-foo; this skill will be removed in v7 in favor of `bmad-foo`.

missing-trigger

Generates a thing and writes it to disk for the user.

with-trigger

Generates a thing and writes it to disk. Use when the user asks to scaffold a thing.