Business analyst for market research, competitive analysis, and requirements. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst
System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect
Senior software engineer who implements stories and code changes. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent
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
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 "create the architecture", "create technical architecture", "architecture spine", or "create a solution design"
Break requirements into epics and user stories. Use when the user says "create the epics and stories list"
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-project-context. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context"
Create, update, or validate a PRD. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a PRD
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', '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
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
Condense any input — an idea, brief, PRD, transcript, or mixed notes — into a short spec: SPEC.md plus supporting files that downstream skills build from. Also updates and validates existing specs, and can break a spec into stories. Use when the user says "create a spec", "distill this into a spec", "validate this spec", "update the spec", or "break this into stories"
Check that planning is complete enough to implement, then generate the sprint status file from the epics. Can also summarize sprint progress and validate or repair the tracking file. Use when the user says "run sprint planning", "generate sprint plan", "check implementation readiness", "show sprint status", "validate sprint status", or "fix sprint status"
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"
One iteration of an unattended development loop. Use when invoked by name
Turns a work item — feature, story, bug fix, change request — into working code, reviewed and verified. Use when the user hands over an outcome and leaves the edits to you; a bare story or issue link counts. Also use whenever the user asks BMAD by name — then any change qualifies, even a tiny fully-specified edit. Do not volunteer for interactive edits the user directs and reviews themselves, or for version-control operations that record existing work without changing it.
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"
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"
Generate automated API and end-to-end tests for implemented features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"
Review a completed epic against the evidence it left behind — spec, stories, diffs, commits, sprint status — and produce a retrospective with sourced findings, action items, and an acceptance decision. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]". Supports -H/--headless
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-architecture (create intent)
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (create intent)
Deprecated: `bmad-build` is now the official implementation method. Only use this when explicitly invoked by name
Deprecated: forwards to bmad-build-auto. Do not use unless invoked by name
Deprecated: `bmad-build` is now the official implementation method. Only use this when explicitly invoked by name
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (domain type)
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (update intent)
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (market type)
Deprecated: forwards to bmad-build. Do not use unless invoked by name
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-sprint-planning (status view)
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (technical type)
Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (validate intent)
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
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'
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 directly, or run the research here with parallel web searches. Built-in research types: market, domain, technical, competitive, user-voice, academic-lit; also supports choosing between candidates, 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"
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 idea', 'pressure-test this idea', 'stress-test my thinking', or 'harden this idea'
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