STEP-04 compliance: add explicit HALT directives after menu presentations
in brainstorming (4 locations) and generate-project-context (2 locations)
to prevent LLM from auto-selecting options without waiting for user input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- STEP-06: Remove name/description from step frontmatter in edit-prd (5 files)
and validate-prd (14 files) — these belong only in SKILL.md
- REF-02: Fix brainstorming step-02a/b/c/d CSV parse instructions to match
actual brain-methods.csv columns (3 cols, not 7)
- SEQ-02: Remove time estimates from brainstorming step-02a/b/c/d and step-03,
replace time-based thresholds with idea-count criteria
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Run skill-validator against all 36 skills on HEAD (42b1d0f6). Fixes:
- PATH-01: relative path corrections in product-brief-preview, brainstorming,
distillator, generate-project-context, edit-prd, quick-dev-new-preview
- PATH-04: remove 5 intra-skill path variables from edit-prd
- REF-01: single-curly template vars → double-curly in create-architecture,
create-epics-and-stories, create-story
- REF-02: fix dangling file refs in advanced-elicitation, validate-prd, edit-prd
- REF-03: update rule to prefer natural language `Invoke the skill` form;
fix stale persona ref in qa-generate-e2e-tests
- SEQ-01: "skip to" → "proceed to" in quick-dev-new-preview
- SEQ-02: remove time estimates from document-project, quick-spec
- SKILL-06: add "Use when" trigger to review-edge-case-hunter
- STEP numbering: renumber step n="0.5" to integer sequence in retrospective
Also updates REF-03 rule in tools/skill-validator.md to clarify that
natural language invocation is canonical — no skill: prefix required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace three inconsistent skill reference patterns (frontmatter variables
with raw paths, frontmatter variables with skill: prefix, inline Execute
skill: syntax) with a single natural-language convention across all workflow
and task step files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Party-mode moved from core/workflows/ to core/skills/ in PR #1959,
breaking 11 file references. Convert all to skill:bmad-party-mode
matching the convention used by skill:bmad-advanced-elicitation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* prototype preview of new version of product brief skill
* chore: re-enable bmad-builder external module
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* config loading with existing location
* refactor: rename bmad-bmm-product-brief-preview to bmad-product-brief-preview
Drop the redundant bmm prefix from the product brief preview skill folder
to align with the standard naming convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: add core tools reference and apply Diataxis style fixes
Add comprehensive reference doc for all 11 built-in core tools (tasks
and workflows) that ship with every BMad installation — bmad-help,
brainstorming, party-mode, distillator, advanced-elicitation, both
review tools, both editorial tools, shard-doc, and index-docs. Each
entry follows the Configuration Reference structure with purpose,
use cases, how it works, inputs, and outputs.
Style fixes across existing docs:
- reference/commands.md: convert #### headers to bold text, replace
sparse task table with link to new core-tools reference
- how-to/get-answers-about-bmad.md: remove horizontal rule between
sections (Diataxis violation)
- how-to/project-context.md: consolidate 4 consecutive tip admonitions
into single admonition with bullet list, add AGENTS.md reference
Also includes:
- Add bmad-distillator task to core module with compression agents,
format reference, splitting strategy, and analysis scripts
- Add Distillator entry to module-help.csv
- Rename supports-autonomous to supports-headless in product-brief
manifest
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* core items to skills folder
* fix calls to invoke party mode
* fix calls to invoke party mode and AE as skills
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The market-research workflow now lives entirely in
bmad-market-research/ as a native skill directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add co-located HALT instructions after every menu in all 6 step files
- Fix step-05 to route to step-06 instead of declaring workflow complete
- Rename market-steps/ to steps/ for standard naming convention
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move validate-prd from a workflow entry in create-prd manifest to a
self-contained skill at src/bmm/workflows/2-plan-workflows/bmad-validate-prd/.
Update pm.agent.yaml and module-help.csv to use skill: URI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Strip name/description from all step frontmatter (STEP-06), remove
intra-skill path variables and inline them (PATH-04), move outputFile
to workflow.md (WF-03), fix stale step-11-complete refs (REF-02),
fix product_knowledge typo (REF-01), rewrite continuation logic
to use a lookup table, and strip legacy source workflow frontmatter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the create-prd workflow into src/core/tasks/bmad-create-prd/ as a
self-contained native skill with SKILL.md, workflow.md, steps-c/, data/,
and templates/. Update all internal path references from absolute
{project-root}/_bmad/... to relative paths. Mark the source
workflow-create-prd.md as standalone:false to prevent duplicate manifest
entries. Update pm.agent.yaml and module-help.csv to use skill:bmad-create-prd.
Remove installed_path and unused intra-skill path variables from
workflow.md (PATH-02, PATH-04).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove installed_path and intra-skill path variables from
workflow.md (PATH-02, PATH-04).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove installed_path definition and intra-skill path variables
from workflow.md (PATH-02, PATH-04).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove name/description from step frontmatter (STEP-06) and add
missing HALT before user menu in step-04-final-validation (STEP-04).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove name/description from step frontmatter (STEP-06) and inline
nextStepFile/templateFile path variables as literal relative paths
(PATH-04).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move edit-prd workflow and steps-e/ out of the shared create-prd directory
into its own bmad-edit-prd skill directory with SKILL.md, workflow.md, and
bmad-skill-manifest.yaml. Update pm.agent.yaml and module-help.csv to use
skill:bmad-edit-prd. Fix validationWorkflow path in step-e-04 to use
absolute {project-root} reference since relative path breaks after move.
Remove name/description from step frontmatter (STEP-06), inline
intra-skill path variables (PATH-04), prefix bare external path
with {project-root} (PATH-03), and normalize template placeholders
to double-curly convention (REF-01).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Step files are inside steps/ so inter-step references must be
./step-NN.md not ./steps/step-NN.md (which would double-nest).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move technical-research workflow into bmad-technical-research/ skill
package with SKILL.md, bmad-skill-manifest.yaml, and properly
namespaced step files. Update module-help.csv to use skill: ref.
Remove duplicate technical-steps/ from old location and fix all
cross-references to use the new bmad-technical-research/ path.
Alex Verkhovsky
Brian