From d81ad38aceb3b98ffb97dc4a68fe681b88ba2a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Madison <bmadcode@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:45:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(installer): support new SKILL.md agent format in
 manifest generation

Update getAgentsFromDir to detect directories with bmad-skill-manifest.yaml
where type=agent and extract metadata directly from the YAML fields. This
allows the agent-manifest.csv to be populated from both old-format compiled
.md agents (XML parsing) and new-format SKILL.md agents (YAML manifest).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../installers/lib/core/manifest-generator.js | 35 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/cli/installers/lib/core/manifest-generator.js b/tools/cli/installers/lib/core/manifest-generator.js
index 5dc4ff078..515e991f8 100644
--- a/tools/cli/installers/lib/core/manifest-generator.js
+++ b/tools/cli/installers/lib/core/manifest-generator.js
@@ -505,6 +505,41 @@ class ManifestGenerator {
       if (entry.isDirectory()) {
         // Skip directories claimed by collectSkills
         if (this.skillClaimedDirs && this.skillClaimedDirs.has(fullPath)) continue;
+
+        // Check for new-format agent: bmad-skill-manifest.yaml with type: agent
+        const dirManifest = await this.loadSkillManifest(fullPath);
+        if (dirManifest && dirManifest.__single && dirManifest.__single.type === 'agent') {
+          const m = dirManifest.__single;
+          const dirRelativePath = relativePath ? `${relativePath}/${entry.name}` : entry.name;
+          const installPath =
+            moduleName === 'core'
+              ? `${this.bmadFolderName}/core/agents/${dirRelativePath}`
+              : `${this.bmadFolderName}/${moduleName}/agents/${dirRelativePath}`;
+
+          agents.push({
+            name: m.name || entry.name,
+            displayName: m.displayName || m.name || entry.name,
+            title: m.title || '',
+            icon: m.icon || '',
+            capabilities: m.capabilities ? this.cleanForCSV(m.capabilities) : '',
+            role: m.role ? this.cleanForCSV(m.role) : '',
+            identity: m.identity ? this.cleanForCSV(m.identity) : '',
+            communicationStyle: m.communicationStyle ? this.cleanForCSV(m.communicationStyle) : '',
+            principles: m.principles ? this.cleanForCSV(m.principles) : '',
+            module: m.module || moduleName,
+            path: installPath,
+            canonicalId: m.canonicalId || '',
+          });
+
+          this.files.push({
+            type: 'agent',
+            name: m.name || entry.name,
+            module: moduleName,
+            path: installPath,
+          });
+          continue;
+        }
+
         // Recurse into subdirectories
         const newRelativePath = relativePath ? `${relativePath}/${entry.name}` : entry.name;
         const subDirAgents = await this.getAgentsFromDir(fullPath, moduleName, newRelativePath);