diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e0e417d0..2e97d2d7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/package.json",
"name": "@jonahschulte/bmad-method",
- "version": "6.1.0-Beta.6",
+ "version": "6.1.0-Beta.7",
"description": "Breakthrough Method of Agile AI-driven Development (Enhanced with TDD, intelligent multi-agent review, and production-hardened enforcement)",
"keywords": [
"agile",
diff --git a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/batch-stories/workflow.md b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/batch-stories/workflow.md
index 850e81f4..fefb037c 100644
--- a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/batch-stories/workflow.md
+++ b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/batch-stories/workflow.md
@@ -165,11 +165,13 @@ For parallel: proceed to `execute_parallel`
-**Sequential Processing**
+**Sequential Processing - Visible Agent Phases**
```
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
-📦 SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING
+📦 SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING - VISIBLE AGENTS
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+Each phase spawns as a TOP-LEVEL Task you can see!
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
```
@@ -203,12 +205,30 @@ If missing, auto-create using greenfield workflow:
echo "✅ Prerequisites satisfied"
```
-**Step B: Invoke story-full-pipeline**
+**Step B: Execute Pipeline Phases DIRECTLY (not wrapped in Task)**
-Use story-full-pipeline workflow with:
-- mode: batch
-- story_key: {{story_key}}
-- complexity_level: {{complexity}}
+⚠️ **CRITICAL: DO NOT wrap this in a Task!**
+Execute the pipeline phases directly so each agent is a visible top-level Task.
+
+**B.1: Load story-full-pipeline workflow:**
+Read: `{project-root}/_bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-full-pipeline/workflow.md`
+
+**B.2: Execute each phase as described in workflow.md:**
+The workflow describes spawning these Tasks - spawn them DIRECTLY:
+
+```
+Phase 0: Playbook Query (orchestrator does this, no Task)
+Phase 1: Task({ description: "🔨 Bob implementing {{story_key}}", ... }) ← VISIBLE
+Phase 2: Task({ description: "🕵️ Vera validating {{story_key}}", ... }) ← VISIBLE
+ Task({ description: "🧪 Tessa testing {{story_key}}", ... }) ← VISIBLE
+ Task({ description: "🔴 Rex reviewing {{story_key}}", ... }) ← VISIBLE (x N)
+Phase 3: Task({ description: "🔨 Bob fixing {{story_key}}", resume: ID }) ← VISIBLE
+Phase 4: Task({ description: "🕵️ Vera re-checking {{story_key}}", ... }) ← VISIBLE
+Phase 5: Reconciliation (orchestrator does this, no Task)
+Phase 6: Task({ description: "📚 Rita reflecting on {{story_key}}", ... }) ← VISIBLE
+```
+
+**Why this matters:** By NOT wrapping the pipeline in a Task, each agent spawn becomes a top-level Task that the user can see in Claude Code's UI.
**Step C: Reconcile Using Completion Artifacts (orchestrator does this directly)**
@@ -292,7 +312,7 @@ Use Edit tool: `"{{story_key}}: ready-for-dev"` → `"{{story_key}}: done"`
```
Task({
subagent_type: "general-purpose",
- description: "Implement {{story_key}}",
+ description: "🔨 Bob's Team on {{story_key}}",
prompt: `
Execute story-full-pipeline for story {{story_key}}.
diff --git a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-full-pipeline/workflow.md b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-full-pipeline/workflow.md
index c755648d..3f01f26a 100644
--- a/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-full-pipeline/workflow.md
+++ b/src/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-full-pipeline/workflow.md
@@ -150,10 +150,12 @@ Extract the \`\` section - this defines WHO Bob is.
**2. Spawn Builder agent and SAVE agent_id for resume later:**
+⚠️ **This Task should be VISIBLE in Claude Code UI!**
+
\`\`\`
BUILDER_TASK = Task({
subagent_type: "general-purpose",
- description: "Bob 🔨 implementing story {{story_key}}",
+ description: "🔨 Bob the Builder on {{story_key}}",
prompt: \`
You are BOB 🔨 - The Builder.
@@ -284,7 +286,7 @@ Send single message with multiple Task calls:
\`\`\`
Task({
subagent_type: "testing-suite:test-engineer",
- description: "Vera 🔍 validating story {{story_key}}",
+ description: "🕵️ Vera the Inspector on {{story_key}}",
prompt: \`
You are VERA 🔍 - The Verification Inspector.
@@ -397,7 +399,7 @@ Save to: docs/sprint-artifacts/completions/{{story_key}}-inspector.json
\`\`\`
Task({
subagent_type: "testing-suite:test-engineer",
- description: "Tessa 🧪 reviewing test quality for {{story_key}}",
+ description: "🧪 Tessa the Test Scientist on {{story_key}}",
prompt: \`
You are TESSA 🧪 - The Test Quality Analyst.
@@ -478,7 +480,56 @@ Save to: docs/sprint-artifacts/completions/{{story_key}}-test-quality.json
---
-(Continue with Security, Logic, Architect, Quality reviewers as before...)
+## Rex 🔴 Reviewers (Spawn based on complexity)
+
+Load Rex's persona from: `{project-root}/_bmad/bmm/agents/reviewer.md`
+
+**Security Reviewer (always spawn):**
+\`\`\`
+Task({
+ subagent_type: "auditor-security",
+ description: "🔴 Rex (Security) on {{story_key}}",
+ prompt: \`
+You are REX 🔴 - The Code Critic (Security Focus).
+
+
+[INJECT persona section from _bmad/bmm/agents/reviewer.md]
+
+
+Focus: Security vulnerabilities, injection attacks, auth issues.
+[... security review prompt ...]
+\`
+})
+\`\`\`
+
+**Logic/Performance Reviewer (standard/complex):**
+\`\`\`
+Task({
+ subagent_type: "optimizer-performance",
+ description: "🔴 Rex (Logic) on {{story_key}}",
+ prompt: "... logic and performance review ..."
+})
+\`\`\`
+
+**Architecture Reviewer (always spawn):**
+\`\`\`
+Task({
+ subagent_type: "architect-reviewer",
+ description: "🔴 Rex (Architecture) on {{story_key}}",
+ prompt: "... architecture patterns review ..."
+})
+\`\`\`
+
+**Code Quality Reviewer (complex only):**
+\`\`\`
+Task({
+ subagent_type: "general-purpose",
+ description: "🔴 Rex (Quality) on {{story_key}}",
+ prompt: "... code quality review ..."
+})
+\`\`\`
+
+---
**Wait for ALL agents to complete.**
@@ -537,10 +588,14 @@ If coverage fails: add to issues list for Builder to fix.
**CRITICAL: Resume Bob (reuses context, 50-70% token savings!)**
-Use Task tool with \`resume: "{{BUILDER_AGENT_ID}}"\` parameter.
+⚠️ **This Task should be VISIBLE in Claude Code UI!**
-**Bob's Fix Prompt:**
\`\`\`
+Task({
+ subagent_type: "general-purpose",
+ description: "🔨 Bob fixing issues on {{story_key}}",
+ resume: "{{BUILDER_AGENT_ID}}",
+ prompt: \`
Hey Bob! 🔨 The review team found some issues. Can we fix it?
@@ -576,15 +631,32 @@ Wait for completion. Parse commit hash and fix counts.
-**Phase 4: Quick Inspector Re-Check**
+**Phase 4: Vera 🕵️ Quick Re-Check**
\`\`\`
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
-✅ PHASE 4: RE-VERIFICATION
+🕵️ PHASE 4: VERA RE-VERIFIES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
\`\`\`
-Spawn Inspector only (not full review). Quick functional verification.
+⚠️ **This Task should be VISIBLE in Claude Code UI!**
+
+\`\`\`
+Task({
+ subagent_type: "testing-suite:test-engineer",
+ description: "🕵️ Vera re-checking {{story_key}}",
+ prompt: \`
+You are VERA 🕵️ - Quick re-verification after Bob's fixes.
+
+Verify that:
+1. All CRITICAL/HIGH issues from Phase 2 are resolved
+2. Tests still pass
+3. No new issues introduced
+
+Return: PASS or FAIL with evidence.
+\`
+})
+\`\`\`
If FAIL: Resume Builder again with new issues.
If PASS: Proceed to reconciliation.
@@ -710,7 +782,7 @@ Spawn Reflection Agent:
\`\`\`
Task({
subagent_type: "general-purpose",
- description: "Extract learnings from {{story_key}}",
+ description: "📚 Rita the Librarian reflecting on {{story_key}}",
prompt: \`
You are the REFLECTION agent for story {{story_key}}.