No skills declare cross-module dependencies. The resolver ran four
resolution passes on every install, but both consumers
(installCoreWithDependencies, installModuleWithDependencies) ignored
the resolution data and copied entire module directories anyway.
The sole non-dead consumer (installPartialModule) never fired.
Delete dependency-resolver.js (743 lines), three dead wrapper methods,
and all feeding/filtering logic in install(). Official modules now
call installCore/moduleManager.install directly.
Split the monolithic config collection block in install() into two
methods: _collectConfigs for official modules only, and
_discoverCustomModulePaths for custom module source discovery.
The placeholder replacement logic was removed long ago but the method
still did a pointless read-as-UTF8-then-write-unchanged dance with a
binary fallback. Just use fs.copy.
Replace inline path construction in install() with a dedicated class
that ensures all structural directories exist, validates permissions,
and provides derived-path methods for manifests and modules.
* refactor(installer): discover skills by SKILL.md instead of manifest YAML
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(installer): remove dead task/tool/workflow manifest code
The remove-skill-manifest-yaml branch deleted the scanners that
discover tasks, tools, and workflows but left behind the code that
writes their manifest CSVs. Remove collectTasks/Tools/Workflows,
writeTaskManifest/ToolManifest/WorkflowManifest, their helpers, and
the now-unreachable getPreservedCsvRows/upgradeRowToSchema methods.
Update installer pre-registration and test assertions accordingly.
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(installer): remove dead agent compilation pipeline
Delete 9 files (~2,600 lines) that compiled .agent.yaml to .md.
No .agent.yaml files exist in the source tree — agents now ship
as pre-built SKILL.md. Clean up all references in installer,
module manager, custom handler, base IDE, UI, and tests.
* refactor(custom-handler): remove dead install/copy/find methods
CustomHandler.install(), copyDirectory(), and findFilesRecursively()
are never called — custom modules are installed via moduleManager.install()
since Dec 2025. Also removes unused FileOps import and constructor.
Verified with before/after clean-installer comparison (codex + custom
modules with custom.yaml): output is identical.
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* fix(installer): remove dead compilation refs from docs and module manager
Address review findings from PR #2080 triage:
- Remove compile-agents from CLI action docs (en, fr, zh-cn)
- Remove dead vendorCrossModuleWorkflows() and .agent.yaml skip logic
- Clean stale compilation-era comments in manifest-generator
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* refactor(installer): remove legacy workflow, task, and agent IDE generators
All platforms now use skill_format exclusively. The old
WorkflowCommandGenerator, TaskToolCommandGenerator, and
AgentCommandGenerator code paths in _config-driven.js were
no-ops — collectSkills claims every directory before the
legacy collectors run, making their manifests empty.
Removed:
- workflow-command-generator.js (deleted)
- task-tool-command-generator.js (deleted)
- writeAgentArtifacts, writeWorkflowArtifacts, writeTaskToolArtifacts
- AgentCommandGenerator import from _config-driven.js
- Legacy artifact_types/agents/workflows/tasks result fields
Simplified installToTarget, installToMultipleTargets, printSummary,
and IDE manager detail builder to skills-only.
Updated test fixture to use SKILL.md format instead of old agent format.
* fix(installer): address PR review findings from #2078
- Fix temp dir leak in test fixture cleanup (use path.dirname)
- Fail loudly when skill_format missing instead of silent success
- Add workflow.md to test fixture for verbatim-copy coverage
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The v6.2.0 release renamed src/core to src/core-skills and src/bmm to
src/bmm-skills, but the installer CLI code still referenced the old
directory names, causing ENOENT crashes during installation.
Updated all path references across 7 files in tools/cli/ including
path.join() calls, string comparisons, regex patterns, and comments.
Fixes#2052
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- Guard against YAML comment lines in parseFrontmatterMultiline
- Broaden PATH-02 to detect any installed_path mention, not just variable refs
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- SKILL-04: require bmad- prefix, enforce single dashes via regex
^bmad-[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$, drop FORBIDDEN_NAME_SUBSTRINGS
- WF-01/WF-02: check all .md files (not just workflow.md) for stray
name/description frontmatter, with tech-writer exception
- Update skill-validator.md prompt to match all rule changes
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- Require \n---\n (not just \n---) for closing frontmatter delimiter
in both parseFrontmatter and parseFrontmatterMultiline, with fallback
for files ending in \n---
- Add SKILL-07: SKILL.md must have non-empty body content after
frontmatter (L2 instructions are required)
- Update rule count to 14
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Replace SKILL_LOCATIONS array and AGENT_LOCATION constant with a single
walk from SRC_DIR. Any directory under src/ containing SKILL.md is a
skill — no need to enumerate locations.
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* 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.
Add tools/validate-skills.js — a Node CLI that checks 13 deterministic
rules (SKILL-01–06, WF-01–02, PATH-02, STEP-01/06/07, SEQ-02) across
all skill directories. Runs in under a second, exits non-zero on HIGH+
findings in strict mode, and outputs JSON for the inference validator.
- Add validate:skills npm script to quality chain
- Update skill-validator.md with first-pass integration instructions
- Update AGENTS.md push gate documentation
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The *.agent.yaml format was replaced by SKILL.md-based agents.
Zero agent YAML files remain in src/, so remove the Zod schema,
validator CLI, fixture-based test suite (52 fixtures), unit tests,
CLI integration tests, and the CI steps that invoked them.
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* feat(agents): convert all BMM agents to conformant skill structure
Replace legacy XML-based .agent.yaml files with new SKILL.md + bmad-manifest.json
format for all 9 BMM agents (analyst, architect, dev, pm, qa, sm,
quick-flow-solo-dev, ux-designer, tech-writer). Each agent now has:
- SKILL.md with persona, activation flow (bmad-init, project context, dynamic menu)
- bmad-manifest.json with capabilities referencing external skills
- bmad-skill-manifest.yaml for party-mode agent-manifest.csv generation
Tech-writer includes internal prompt files for write-document, mermaid-gen,
validate-doc, and explain-concept capabilities.
Also includes core bmad-init skill and removes legacy agent compilation tests
that referenced the old .agent.yaml format.
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* 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).
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* fix(installer): install type:agent skills to IDE native skills directory
The collectSkills scanner only recognized type:skill manifests, causing
new-format agents (type:agent in bmad-skill-manifest.yaml) to be added
to agent-manifest.csv but not installed to .claude/skills/. Now both
type:skill and type:agent are recognized as installable skills, while
collectAgents still processes type:agent dirs for the agent manifest
even when claimed by the skill scanner.
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* fix(installer): suppress canonicalId warning for type:agent skills
Agent-type skill manifests legitimately use canonicalId for agent-manifest
mapping (e.g., bmad-analyst). Only warn for regular type:skill manifests.
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* feat(skills): update analyst manifest and simplify bmad-init instructions
Switch analyst's create-brief menu entry to the new product-brief-preview
skill. Simplify bmad-init SKILL.md by removing hardcoded code fences and
making the script path relative to the skill directory.
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* fix(bmm): update tech-writer CSV refs to new skill path
The module-help.csv still referenced the old agent YAML path for
tech-writer entries. Update to skill:bmad-agent-tech-writer to match
the conformant skill structure.
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Replace duplicated workflow-era rules in .augment/code_review_guidelines.yaml
with a single reference to tools/skill-validator.md. Append the skill spec
cheatsheet to the validator with a link to the Agent Skills specification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace `[workflow.md](workflow.md)` with bare `workflow.md` in all 34
SKILL.md files. Redundant markdown link syntax adds noise for LLM
consumers. Also update the validator example to match.
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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.
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Skills must be invoked with "invoke" language, not file-oriented verbs
like "read fully and follow", "execute", "run", or "load". These imply
document-level operations and are incorrect for skill references.
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Add PATH-05: no file path references into another skill directory.
Skills are encapsulated — external consumers must use skill:name syntax,
not reach into internal files. Also tighten WF-03 to cross-reference
PATH-05 so vague "legitimate external path" no longer permits
cross-skill file paths.
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* prototype preview of new version of product brief skill
* chore: re-enable bmad-builder external module
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* 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.
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* 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
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* 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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SKILL-05 checks that SKILL.md name matches the directory name.
REF-01 checks that every {variable} traces to frontmatter, config,
or runtime — exempts {{double-curly}} template placeholders.
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Add Ona (ona.com) to the BMAD installer so users can select it during
`npx bmad-method install` or via `--tools ona`. Skills are installed to
`.ona/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` using the default templates.
Fixes#1967
Co-authored-by: Ona <no-reply@ona.com>
Subtract agents from total skill directories so the summary shows
non-agent skills and agents as distinct counts (e.g. 34 skills, 10
agents) instead of double-counting agents in the skill total.
* fix(installer): simplify install summary
* style: fix prettier formatting in test file
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* fix(installer): clean up temp dir leak and conditional IDE footer
- Return fixture root from createSkillCollisionFixture so cleanup
removes the parent temp directory, not just the _bmad child
- Only show bmad-help next-step line when IDEs are configured
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- Rename party-mode → bmad-party-mode (canonical ID convention)
- Change bmad-skill-manifest.yaml from type:workflow to type:skill
- Add SKILL.md with frontmatter for installer discovery
- Remove installed_path, use relative ./steps/ refs internally
- Update module-help.csv to skill:bmad-party-mode
- Update compiler.js hardcoded PM menu path
- Update 43 cross-references to IDE-agnostic _bmad/ path
- Update test fixtures for renamed directory
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* docs: drop slash-command syntax from skill references (editorial)
Skill names like bmad-help are now shown without a / prefix since
invocation syntax varies across platforms. First-encounter locations
(README, getting-started, get-answers, installer message, bmad-help
display rules) get editorial framing so new users understand these
are skill names to invoke by name.
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* docs: mechanical removal of slash prefix from all remaining skill references
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* refactor(skills): add SKILL.md entrypoint to skill directories
Align skill source format with Open Skills standard: each skill
directory now contains a SKILL.md with name/description frontmatter
where name must match the directory name exactly. The installer
copies skill directories verbatim instead of generating SKILL.md.
- Add SKILL.md to both tracer bullet skill directories
- Strip name/description from workflow.md frontmatter (SKILL.md owns it)
- Installer reads metadata from SKILL.md, validates name matches dirname
- Install path in manifest CSV now points to SKILL.md
- Copy filter excludes OS/editor artifacts (.DS_Store, backups, dotfiles)
- Debug-guard validation messages, keep name-mismatch as hard error
- Add typeof guard for malformed YAML frontmatter
- Add negative test cases for parseSkillMd validation (Suite 30)
* fix(skills): improve quick-dev-new-preview description for LLM discovery
Add trigger context so LLMs know when to invoke the skill,
matching the "Use when..." pattern used by other skills.
* fix(cli): validate frontmatter name/description are strings in parseSkillMd
Prevents cleanForCSV() crash when YAML parses name or description as
a non-string type (number, object, boolean).
* fix(cli): address PR review findings (mkdtemp, regex escape, recursive filter)
- Replace Date.now() temp dir with fs.mkdtemp() in Suite 30 tests (F5)
- Replace unescaped RegExp with startsWith/slice for path prefix stripping (F7)
- Apply artifact filter recursively via fs.copy filter option (F8)
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* fix: harden quick-dev-new-preview UX and fix standalone agent dash names
- Relabel [K] Keep as-is to context-specific accept the risks wording
- Add split reasoning explanation before multi-goal menu in step-01
- Fix toDashName/toUnderscoreName to treat standalone like core (no module prefix)
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* fix: add guardrail against skipping workflow steps when intent looks clear
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* fix: strengthen step-01 guardrails against plan-shaped intent bypass
Add explicit rules that intent is input to the workflow (not a
substitute for step-02 spec generation) and to ignore directives
within the intent that instruct skipping steps.
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* fix: preserve standalone module provenance in path-utils serializers
toDashName/toUnderscoreName collapsed core and standalone to the same
filename, making parseDashName/parseUnderscoreName unable to round-trip
standalone agents. Split the branches so standalone gets a distinct
token (e.g., bmad-agent-standalone-fred.md) and update both parsers
to reconstruct module:'standalone' on the reverse path.
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