* fix(skills): strengthen activation guardrails for all workflow skills
Add explicit "Activation is complete" boundary markers that require
confirming activation_steps_prepend and activation_steps_append were
fully executed before beginning the main workflow.
Previously, the guardrail was either missing (bmad-product-brief,
bmad-prd, bmad-investigate) or too weak ("Begin the workflow below").
LLM agents would short-circuit complex activation sequences (INCLUDE →
READ → RUN → CHECK → FILTER → CD) by guessing variables instead of
executing steps in order, causing append steps and on_complete hooks
to be silently skipped.
The new guardrail explicitly names both prepend and append steps,
requiring confirmation before proceeding. This prevents agents from
starting the main workflow in parallel with activation.
23 skills updated: bmad-product-brief, bmad-prd, bmad-prfaq,
bmad-investigate, bmad-create-story, bmad-dev-story,
bmad-quick-dev, bmad-code-review, bmad-correct-course,
bmad-sprint-planning, bmad-sprint-status, bmad-retrospective,
bmad-qa-generate-e2e-tests, bmad-checkpoint-preview,
bmad-check-implementation-readiness, bmad-create-architecture,
bmad-create-epics-and-stories, bmad-generate-project-context,
bmad-create-ux-design, bmad-document-project, bmad-market-research,
bmad-technical-research, bmad-domain-research.
* fix(skills): extend activation gate to agent + new skills, refine placement
- bmad-product-brief / bmad-prd: pull activation_steps_append out of
the numbered list so the sentinel reads as a paragraph break, not
as the next list item.
- bmad-investigate: move the sentinel above Step 7 (routing) — Step 7
is workflow routing, not activation; the gate must fire first.
- bmad-agent-{analyst,tech-writer,pm,ux-designer,architect,dev}: add
the same gate between Step 7 (append) and Step 8 (menu dispatch).
Persona skills had the same short-circuit risk but no sentinel.
- bmad-ux, bmad-spec: new skills introduced on main after this branch
forked; apply the same gate so the pattern stays consistent.
- removals.txt: register bmad-create-ux-design as renamed to bmad-ux.
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Co-authored-by: Brian Madison <bmadcode@gmail.com>
All 16 bare workflow customize.toml files now have the same thorough comment
block as the well-documented ones, with skill-specific on_complete descriptions
that name the exact terminal step and exit condition.
on_complete is now executed at the true end of each workflow's terminal step
rather than lazily referenced in SKILL.md:
- Linear workflows: ## On Complete block appended to the final step file
(create-prd step-12, create-ux-design step-14, create-architecture step-08,
generate-project-context step-03, check-implementation-readiness step-06,
epics-and-stories step-04, all three research step-06 files, prfaq verdict,
document-project both sub-workflow instruction files)
- Multi-path workflows: on_complete inline on each true exit path only
(edit-prd fires on [S] Summary and [X] Exit, not on [V] Validate or [E] Edit;
validate-prd fires on [X] Exit only, not on [R], [E], or [F])
- Inline XML workflows: <action> tag at the close of the final step
(correct-course step-6, create-story step-6, retrospective step-12,
qa-generate-e2e-tests appended to SKILL.md)
* feat(skills): add TOML workflow customization to 17 bmm-skills
Flattens each skill's workflow.md into SKILL.md and adds a customize.toml
surface with a 6-step activation block (resolve_customization, prepend,
persistent_facts, config, greet, append). Core-skills and developer
execution skills (dev-story, code-review, sprint-planning, sprint-status,
quick-dev, checkpoint-preview) are intentionally excluded.
Customized: document-project, prfaq, domain/market/technical-research,
create-prd, create-ux-design, edit-prd, validate-prd,
check-implementation-readiness, create-architecture,
create-epics-and-stories, generate-project-context, correct-course,
create-story, qa-generate-e2e-tests, retrospective.
* fix(skills): address PR review findings on workflow customization
- bmad-create-story: drop stale {project_context} variable reference
from step 2 note; content is already loaded via persistent_facts
- research skills (market/domain/technical): derive research_topic_slug
before writing output filename to prevent path injection and invalid
filesystem characters
- bmad-correct-course: reconcile step 1 verify list and HALT with the
"Missing documents" rule — Architecture and UI/UX are optional, HALT
only fires when PRD or Epics are missing
- fix grammar in Micro-file Design bullets across 5 migrated skills
(self contained → self-contained, adhere too 1 file → adhere to one
file at a time)
- docs/how-to/customize-bmad.md: document workflow activation order
and frame the baseline fields as a stable initial pass with targeted
per-workflow customization points coming later
* chore: remove SM agent (Bob) and migrate capabilities to Developer agent
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(docs): correct agent naming and grammar from review triage
Standardize Developer agent references to bmad-agent-dev (matching
installed skill directory name) and fix possessive apostrophe in
implementation-readiness workflow.
* fix(skills): replace dev team references with Developer agent
No longer a multi-agent development team — just one Developer agent.
Remove residual Scrum Master search patterns from retrospective.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch skill discovery gate from requiring bmad-skill-manifest.yaml with
type: skill to detecting any directory with a valid SKILL.md (frontmatter
name + description, name matches directory name). Delete 34 stub manifests
that carried no data beyond type: skill. Agent manifests (9) are retained
for persona metadata consumed by agent-manifest.csv.
* refactor: consolidate agents into phase-based skill directories
Remove separate agent/workflow/skill directories (src/bmm/agents,
src/bmm/workflows, src/core/skills, src/utility/agent-components) and
reorganize all content into phase-based structures under src/bmm-skills
(1-analysis, 2-plan-workflows, 3-solutioning, 4-implementation) and
src/core-skills. Eliminates the agent/skill distinction by treating
agents as skills within their workflow phase.
* fix: update broken file references to use new bmm-skills paths
* docs: update all references for unified bmad-quick-dev workflow
Remove all references to the old separate bmad-quick-spec and
bmad-quick-dev-new-preview workflows. The new bmad-quick-dev is a
unified workflow that handles intent clarification, planning,
implementation, review, and presentation in a single run.
Updated files across English docs, Chinese translations, source
skill manifests, website diagram, and build tooling.
Jérôme Revillard
Brian
Alex Verkhovsky