BMAD-METHOD/tools
Alex Verkhovsky e36f219c81
refactor(catalog): rename after/before to preceded-by/followed-by (#2360)
* refactor(catalog): rename after/before columns to preceded-by/followed-by

The bare prepositions `after` and `before` had no subject anchor, leaving
the dependency direction ambiguous: "X has Y in its `after` column" reads
plausibly as either "Y comes after X" or "X comes after Y". An LLM
catalog consumer just got the direction wrong because of this.

`preceded-by` / `followed-by` are passive-voice participles whose grammar
locks the subject (the skill in this row) and forces a single reading:
"X is preceded by Y" can only mean Y comes first.

Rename applied to:
- module-help.csv headers (bmm-skills, core-skills)
- bmad-help SKILL.md schema doc + descriptions
- installer.js mergeModuleHelpCatalogs header string
- plugin-resolver.js _buildSynthesizedHelpCsv header string
- bmad-manifest.json keys (bmad-product-brief, bmad-prfaq)
- distillate-format-reference.md example manifest

The separate `required` column continues to carry hard-gate semantics;
the renamed columns are pure soft sequencing hints, as already documented
in bmad-help.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* style(installer): wrap long header strings per prettier

* feat(installer): warn on non-canonical module-help.csv headers

mergeModuleHelpCatalogs now compares each per-module file's header
against the canonical schema and emits a one-shot prompts.log.warn per
module on drift, naming both the expected and actual header. Data
continues to load positionally so external modules built against the
old after/before schema still install cleanly — the warning is the
maintainer signal to rename their columns.

Centralize the canonical header in modules/module-help-schema.js so the
merger and the synthesizer (PluginResolver._buildSynthesizedHelpCsv)
read the same source of truth; future column renames are one edit.

Verified by installing all four bmad-org external modules
(bmb, cis, gds, tea) — every one ships the legacy after/before header
today and now fires an advisory warning while still merging cleanly
into _bmad/_config/bmad-help.csv with the canonical column names.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-01 12:28:50 -07:00
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docs feat(installer): expand to 42 platforms with shared target_dir coordination (#2313) 2026-04-25 21:14:00 -05:00
installer refactor(catalog): rename after/before to preceded-by/followed-by (#2360) 2026-05-01 12:28:50 -07:00
build-docs.mjs fix(docs): community feedback — typo, locale 404s, llms-full (#2091) 2026-03-21 16:42:57 -06:00
fix-doc-links.js fix(docs): comprehensive documentation site review fixes (#1578) 2026-02-08 11:58:22 -06:00
format-workflow-md.js check alignment 2025-10-22 12:36:39 -05:00
javascript-conventions.md refactor(installer): restructure installer with clean separation of concerns (#2129) 2026-03-27 06:50:07 -06:00
migrate-custom-module-paths.js fix(installer): replace fs-extra with native node:fs to prevent file loss 2026-04-13 00:44:28 -05:00
skill-validator.md refactor: tighten SKILL-04 regex, broaden WF-01/WF-02, remove forbidden names 2026-03-18 08:02:01 -06:00
validate-doc-links.js feat(docs): add public roadmap and improve site navigation 2026-02-22 19:41:57 -06:00
validate-file-refs.js feat(skills): TOML-based agent and workflow customization (#2284) 2026-04-19 19:30:29 -05:00
validate-skills.js fix: address PR review findings in skill validator 2026-03-18 14:35:52 -06:00
validate-svg-changes.sh Project Cleanup of Agents Menus, BMB module removal to other repo 2026-01-19 02:04:14 -06:00