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bmad

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.

Quality

92%

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Quality

Content

92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

An exemplary dispatcher-style SKILL.md: an overview that routes each request class to a concrete, verified reference file or to a fully specified help command, with explicit token-budget rules and unambiguous branching. Its only imperfection is minor trimmable filler in the persona paragraph; structure, actionability, and disclosure are all top-tier.

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Conciseness

The ~30-line body explains nothing Claude already knows and even encodes token discipline ("loading the help then only fills context", "Skip this section while the request is only a setup, migrate or initiative action"). It is not a 5 only because the persona paragraph carries minor trimmable filler ("be helpful and guiding"; the self-introduction overlaps the first-person instruction).

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: the exact command "uv run {skill-root}/scripts/knowledge.py --content" with "--root <folder>" per active skills folder (project folders first), precise definitions of {project-root} and {skill-root}, and each reference file paired with an explicit load condition. No pseudocode or vague direction.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The routing is unambiguous: action-only requests load exactly one named reference; everything else follows a numbered two-step help flow, with an explicit skip rule and a come-back rule if the conversation turns to help, plus a guard that every answer comes from installed module help "never from memory". No destructive or batch operations are performed in the body, so the validation cap does not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a clear overview with well-signaled one-level-deep references: references/setup.md, migrate.md, initiative.md and help.md are all real files (verified) whose content is appropriately split out rather than inlined, and scripts/knowledge.py exists at the path the body names. Each reference is labeled with the exact requests it serves, making navigation easy.

5 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong third-person description that explicitly covers both what the skill does and when to use it, with a rich set of natural trigger phrases anchored in the BMad niche. The only weakness is minor: the capability statement covers two core actions while a few natural synonyms (e.g., "install") and the run-skills-on-request capability go unmentioned.

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Specificity

"Answers BMad questions and recommends the next skill from what is installed" names concrete actions, and the trigger clause enumerates specific operations ("set up, update, repair, doctor, migrate or check the status of the installation, or add modules"). It lists several specific actions with only minor gaps (e.g., running skills for the user is a stated capability in the body but absent here), fitting the score-4 anchor rather than the comprehensive score-5 anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly answers both "what" ("Answers BMad questions and recommends the next skill from what is installed") and "when" ("Use when the user asks bmad for help, what to do next or where to start; to set up, update, repair, doctor, migrate...") with concrete trigger phrases, matching the score-5 anchor exactly.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would actually say are well covered: "asks bmad for help", "what to do next", "where to start", "doctor", "migrate", "check the status", "active initiative". It falls short of the score-5 anchor only for missing common synonyms such as "install" for set up, but is clearly above the sparse keyword coverage of scores 2-3.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Every trigger is scoped to the BMad niche (BMad help, the BMad installation, its modules, its active initiative), giving it a clear niche with distinct triggers and minimal conflict risk with other skills. No generic language that would fire for unrelated skills.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository

bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD

Path

skills/bmad/SKILL.md

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