BMAD-METHOD

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

Distill any intent input into the SPEC kernel + companions — the canonical, preservation-validated machine contract for downstream work. Use when the user says "create a spec", "distill this into a spec", "validate this spec", "update the spec", or "break this into stories".

Adversarial code review using parallel review layers and structured triage. Use when the user says "run code review" or "review this code"

Implements any user intent, requirement, story, bug fix or change request by producing clean working code artifacts that follow the project's existing architecture, patterns and conventions. Use when the user wants to build, fix, tweak, refactor, add or modify any code, component or feature.

Review a code change for changed behavior that could regress without reliable verification catching it. Use when checking whether a change is adequately verified.

Analyzes current state and user query to answer BMad questions or recommend the next skill(s) to use. Use when user asks for help, bmad help, what to do next, or what to start with in BMad.

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 personas, or build an AI focus-group panel.

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.

Walk every branching path and boundary condition in content, report only unhandled edge cases. Orthogonal to adversarial review - method-driven not attitude-driven. Use when you need exhaustive edge-case analysis of code, specs, or diffs.

Pressure-test an idea through persona-driven interrogation until it hardens, proves out, or dies cheaply. Use when the user says 'forge an idea', 'pressure-test this idea', 'stress-test my thinking', or 'harden this idea'.

Senior software engineer for story execution and code implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent.

Perform a Cynical Review and produce a findings report. Use when the user requests a critical review of something

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

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

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

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

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'.

Working Backwards PRFAQ challenge that stress-tests a product concept customer-first. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ', 'work backwards', or 'run the PRFAQ challenge'.

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

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

Plan UX patterns and design specifications. Use when the user says "lets create UX design" or "create UX specifications" or "help me plan the UX"

Produce the architecture: a lean spine of invariants that keeps everything built from it consistent, projected into whatever format the work needs. Use when the user says "create the architecture", "create technical architecture", "architecture spine", or "create a solution design".

Post-epic review to extract lessons and assess success. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]"

Generate sprint status tracking from epics. Use when the user says "run sprint planning" or "generate sprint plan"

Summarize sprint status and surface risks. Use when the user says "check sprint status" or "show sprint status"

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

DEPRECATED — consolidated into bmad-architecture create intent - this skill will be removed in v7 in favor of `bmad-architecture`.

Break requirements into epics and user stories. Use when the user says "create the epics and stories list"

Creates a dedicated story file with all the context the agent will need to implement it later. Use when the user says "create the next story" or "create story [story identifier]"

Execute story implementation following a context filled story spec file. Use when the user says "dev this story [story file]" or "implement the next story in the sprint plan"

Strategic business analyst and requirements expert. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst.

Technical documentation specialist and knowledge curator. Use when the user asks to talk to Paige or requests the tech writer.

Document brownfield projects for AI context. Use when the user says "document this project" or "generate project docs"

Conduct domain and industry research. Use when the user says wants to do domain research for a topic or industry

Conduct market research on competition and customers. Use when the user says they need market research

Conduct technical research on technologies and architecture. Use when the user says they would like to do or produce a technical research report

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

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

Validate PRD, UX, Architecture and Epics specs are complete. Use when the user says "check implementation readiness".

Create project-context.md with AI rules. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context"