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'.

Builds, converts, and analyzes workflows and skills. Use when the user requests to "build a workflow", "modify a workflow", "quality check workflow", "analyze skill", or "convert a skill".

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"

Validate a PRD against standards. Use when the user says "validate this PRD" or "run PRD validation"

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]"

Create a PRD from scratch. Use when the user says "lets create a product requirements document" or "I want to create a new PRD"

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

Create architecture solution design decisions for AI agent consistency. Use when the user says "lets create architecture" or "create technical architecture" or "create a solution design"

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

Splits large markdown documents into smaller, organized files based on level 2 (default) sections. Use if the user says perform shard document

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.

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

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

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

Teach testing progressively through structured sessions. Use when user says "lets learn testing" or "I want to study test practices"

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.

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

Create or update product briefs through guided or autonomous discovery. Use when the user requests to create or update a Product Brief.

Working Backwards PRFAQ challenge to forge product concepts. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ', 'work backwards', or 'run the PRFAQ challenge'.

Orchestrates group discussions between installed BMAD agents, enabling natural multi-agent conversations where each agent is a real subagent with independent thinking. Use when user requests party mode, wants multiple agent perspectives, group discussion, roundtable, or multi-agent conversation about their project.