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Conduct technical research on technologies and architecture. Use when the user says they would like to do or produce a technical research report
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Make impressive, on-brand presentation slides and decks end-to-end, for ANY design system. Use this skill whenever the user wants to brainstorm, build, design, generate, review, or export a slide, deck, presentation, pitch, or company/product/sales deck. It runs as job-specific WORKFLOWS: brainstorm a deck's structure, generate the HTML deck with a review loop, and export to editable PPTX, image PPTX, standalone HTML, or PDF. It is design-system-agnostic — it uses the user's own design system if they have one, a `nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill` suggestion if that's installed, or a bundled neutral default theme — and drives everything from design tokens (never hardcoded colors or fonts). It ships a token-driven brand kit (tokens, fonts, logos, 34 premade layouts), a "wow" craft guide, an anti-slop validator, a ready-made React deck template, point-and-comment edit mode, and a validated editable-PPTX pipeline. It can also supply just the design layer (tokens, components, patterns) to another slide generat
Orchestrates BMAD implementation workflows automatically — both the full Phase 4 epic/story pipeline and the Quick Flow for small, well-understood changes. Use this skill whenever the user wants to: (1) automate Phase 4 implementation ("auto implement", "start implementation", "begin phase 4", "automatic working on phase 4", "implement all stories", "process the epics"), (2) check implementation progress or status ("what's the status?", "how many stories are done?"), (3) resume a previously interrupted session ("continue from where we left off", "resume"), (4) implement a small self-contained change without going through full BMAD planning ("quick dev", "quick flow", "implement this change", a described bug fix, refactor, or small feature, patch). When the user describes a small change or asks to quickly implement something, route to Quick Flow — `bmad-quick-dev` handles intent-to-code directly without a separate spec step. If a multi-story project is already in flight (`sprint-status.yaml` exists) AND the us
Use when someone asks to research a software-engineering question through a verified, multi-perspective lens — "should we use X vs Y", "evaluate library/framework/database Z", "research whether we should adopt …", "write an ADR for …", "spike on …", or "migrate from X to Y / upgrade path". Runs a STORM-style pipeline specialized for software: auto-detects one of five research modes (library-eval, deep-research, architecture, spike, migration), spawns that mode's expert lenses in parallel, maps their contradictions, synthesizes an HTML briefing and a Markdown/ADR record, then adversarially verifies every claim against PRIMARY software sources (official docs, RFCs, GitHub releases, OSV/CVE, OpenSSF Scorecard, benchmarks) with version-awareness. Best for decisions where multiple viewpoints and version-correct, fact-checked claims matter; overkill for a quick API lookup. For non-software topics use deep-research; for a pure scored decision matrix use trade-off-analysis.
Build high-quality, animated, professional web pages that VISUALIZE software architecture, system design, data models, or a product idea — using Three.js (3D) + GSAP (scroll/animation) + SVG diagrams. Produces two things, usually together: (1) a cinematic scroll-story landing page where a 3D low-poly world narrates how a system works, and (2) an interactive architecture map with switchable overlay "lenses", clickable drill-down component diagrams, and crow's-foot ERDs. Every output ships with a built-in EDIT MODE so the human can click components / snip areas / pick 3D objects and batch visual feedback straight to you. Use this skill WHENEVER the user wants to visualize, present, "show", animate, or build an interactive page for an architecture, system design, technical concept, data model, pipeline, or product story — including phrases like "intro page", "architecture visualization", "interactive diagram", "scrollytelling", "3D system map", "ERD page", "design walkthrough", "make our architecture look impres
Manual test planning, writing, reviewing, executing, and maintaining test cases. Use when: user asks to write test cases, create a test plan, run manual tests, review test coverage, update tests after feature changes, or asks 'how should I test this'. Also trigger after implementing features that change system behavior — per CLAUDE.md, updating the manual test plan is mandatory. Covers API/backend, frontend, pipeline/workflow, AI/LLM, and infrastructure testing patterns.
A structured root-cause investigation protocol for complex, ambiguous, or multi-layer technical problems. Activate this skill whenever: a problem has resisted two or more fix attempts; the root cause is unknown or assumed; you are tempted to try a variation of something that already failed; a system has multiple interacting layers (hardware, OS, runtime, middleware, config, network); the user says "ultrathink", "think deeper", "figure out why", "stop guessing", "find the root cause", or "it's still broken after your fix". Also activate proactively when you catch yourself about to write a fix before you have verified the cause — that instinct is the signal the protocol is needed. The protocol enforces three disciplines that distinguish root-cause investigation from trial-and-error: (1) explicit THOUGHT/ACTION/OBSERVATION cycles, (2) a hard gate that blocks implementation until the cause is verified by direct evidence, and (3) structured escalation when in-process diagnostic tools are exhausted.
| name | bmad-technical-research |
| description | Conduct technical research on technologies and architecture. Use when the user says they would like to do or produce a technical research report |
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