BMAD-METHOD

Answers BMad questions and recommends the next skill from what is installed. Use when the user asks bmad for help, what to do next or where to start; to set up, update, repair, doctor, migrate or check the status of the installation, or add modules; or to see or change the active initiative.

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

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

Sofia, the Product Owner: turns any input (an idea, brief, PRD, transcript, notes) into a ticket's requirements, slices initiatives into epics and epics into stories, writes and refines tickets, runs the board, validates the tree, replans when a change lands, and sets up the ticket store. Use when the user asks for Sofia or the product owner, or says 'create a spec', 'distill this PRD', 'write the initiative from', 'slice this', 'split this epic', 'break this into stories', 'make a ticket', 'refine this ticket', 'what's ready', 'status of', 'publish', 'validate these tickets', 'this changed, what now', 'set up the ticket store'.

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 ticket file, with an existing codebase or architecture document beside it. Use when the user says "create the architecture", "create technical architecture", "architecture spine", or "create a solution design"

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

Turns implementation work into working code, reviewed and verified. Use when the user delegates a feature, story, bug fix, or meaningful change; a bare story or issue link counts. Skip obvious, low-risk mechanical maintenance such as small ignore-file, typo-only, formatting-only, or configuration-hygiene edits. Explicit BMAD requests always qualify. Do not volunteer for user-directed interactive edits or version-control operations that only record existing work.

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

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"

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 on a topic or this repository. 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", "what users say about X", "literature review", "help me choose between", "research the codebase", "research how X works here" or "why is X built this way". Not for a quick code question answered in chat.

Runs the evals of a BMad skill through the agent harness the user works in and reports what they show: baseline against the bare model, variant against a stripped or prior version, quality against a rubric, and trigger accuracy of the description with an optional optimization loop. Use when the user asks to evaluate, benchmark, test the triggers of, grade, or compare versions of a skill, or when the bmad-toolsmith skill asks for an eval of a skill it built.

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'

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

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