This release introduces significant enhancements across multiple areas:
QA Agent Transformation:
- Transform QA agent into senior developer role with active code refactoring abilities
- Add review-story task enabling QA to review, refactor, and improve code directly
- Integrate QA review step into standard development workflow (SM → Dev → QA)
- QA can fix small issues directly and leave checklist for remaining items
- Updated dev agent to maintain File List for QA review focus
Knowledge Base Improvements:
- Add extensive brownfield development documentation and best practices
- Clarify Web UI vs IDE usage with cost optimization strategies
- Document PRD-first approach for large codebases/monorepos
- Add comprehensive expansion packs explanation
- Update IDE workflow to include QA review step
- Clarify agent usage (bmad-master vs specialized agents)
Brownfield Enhancements:
- Create comprehensive Working in the Brownfield guide
- Add document-project task to analyst agent capabilities
- Implement PRD-first workflow option for focused documentation
- Transform document-project to create practical brownfield architecture docs
- Document technical debt, workarounds, and real-world constraints
- Reference actual files instead of duplicating content
- Add impact analysis when PRD is provided
Documentation Task Improvements:
- Simplify to always create ONE unified architecture document
- Add deep codebase analysis phase with targeted questions
- Focus on documenting reality including technical debt
- Include Quick Reference section with key file paths
- Add practical sections: useful commands, debugging tips, known issues
Workflow Updates:
- Update all 6 workflow files with detailed IDE transition instructions
- Add clear SM → Dev → QA → Dev cycle explanation
- Emphasize Gemini Web for brownfield analysis (1M+ context advantage)
- Support both PRD-first and document-first approaches
This release significantly improves the brownfield development experience and introduces a powerful shift-left QA approach with senior developer mentoring.
- Add markdownExploder setting to core-config.yml
- Update shard-doc task to use md-tree command when enabled
- Implement proper fallback handling when tool is unavailable
- Update core-config structure to remove nested wrapper
- Fix field naming to use camelCase throughout
- Create comprehensive PR guide at docs/how-to-contribute-with-pull-requests.md
- Add prominent links in README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md
- Include step-by-step instructions for GitHub newcomers
- Explain what makes good vs bad PRs with examples
- Add Discord community as primary support channel
This addresses issues with inexperienced contributors submitting
poorly formatted PRs or code dumps instead of proper contributions.
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## CHANGES
- Fix typo in CONTRIBUTING.md header
- Rename "Web Agent Setup" to clearer title
- Rename "IDE Agent Setup" to include usage
- Update anchor links to match new headings
- Improve documentation structure and navigation
* docs: update README links to renamed orchestrator config files
## CHANGES
- Update orchestrator link to ide-bmad-orchestrator.md
- Update config link to ide-bmad-orchestrator.cfg.md
- Fix Markdownlint errors in ide-bmad-orchestrator.cfg.md
* docs: update path references from BETA-V3 to bmad-agent in instruction.md
## CHANGES
- Update all BETA-V3 directory references to bmad-agent
- Clarify paths are relative to bmad-agent directory
- Fix markdown formatting for numbered lists
- Update IDE orchestrator configuration path examples
- Correct agent-root path in Data Resolution section
- Remove references to deprecated BETA-V3 structure
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