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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-agent-analyst

Strategic business analyst and requirements expert. 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 for story execution and code implementation. 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-tech-writer

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

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

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".

bmad-brainstorming

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

bmad-check-implementation-readiness

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

bmad-checkpoint-preview

LLM-assisted human-in-the-loop review. Make sense of a change, focus attention where it matters, test. Use when the user says "checkpoint", "human review", or "walk me through this change".

bmad-code-review

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

bmad-correct-course

Manage significant changes during sprint execution. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change"

bmad-create-architecture

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-architecture (create intent).

bmad-create-epics-and-stories

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

bmad-create-prd

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (create intent).

bmad-create-story

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]"

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

Decision-grade research, three ways: draft a deep-research prompt for the user to run in their own tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, …), process a finished research report — file it, distill a succinct cited summary with metadata that downstream skills consume without reprocessing — or run the research here through web fan-out. Shipped type packs: market, domain, technical, competitive, user-voice, academic-lit — plus a select shape for choose-between decisions and custom types via overrides. Use when the user says "deep recon", "research this", "draft a research prompt", "process this research report", "market research", "domain research", "technical research", "competitor research", "literature review", or "help me choose between".

bmad-dev-auto

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

bmad-dev-story

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"

bmad-document-project

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

bmad-domain-research

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (domain type).

bmad-edit-prd

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (update intent).

bmad-editorial-review

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

bmad-editorial-review-prose

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

bmad-editorial-review-structure

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

bmad-forge-idea

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'.

bmad-generate-project-context

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

bmad-help

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.

bmad-market-research

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (market type).

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 personas, or build an AI focus-group panel.

bmad-prd

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

bmad-prfaq

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'.

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 end to end automated tests for existing features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"

bmad-quick-dev

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.

bmad-retrospective

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

bmad-review

Multi-lens review over any diff, doc, spec, or artifact — whichever installed lenses fit the content, run singly or together. Shipped lenses include adversarial, edge-case, verification-gap, structure, and prose. Use when the user says "review this", "critical review", "editorial review", "hunt edge cases", "review the structure", or "review the prose".

bmad-review-adversarial-general

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

bmad-review-edge-case-hunter

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

bmad-review-verification-gap

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review.

bmad-spec

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".

bmad-sprint-planning

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

bmad-sprint-status

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

bmad-technical-research

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (technical type).

bmad-ux

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"

bmad-validate-prd

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (validate intent).

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.