BMAD-METHOD

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

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".

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 "document this project" or "generate project docs"

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.

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.

Curate and maintain verified project context for AI agents. Use when the user says "project context", "document project", "generate project context", "refresh context", or "audit context"

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".

Gate planning readiness, generate sprint status tracking from epics, 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"

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"

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

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.

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".

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

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

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

Evidence-based epic retrospective — collect what the epic produced, verify findings against sources, render an acceptance verdict. 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'.

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".

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'.