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Autonomous Epic Processing

Concept

Full-auto epic completion - Create and develop all stories in an epic with zero human intervention.

/auto-epic epic-2

→ Creates story 2.1 → Super-dev → Done
→ Creates story 2.2 → Super-dev → Done
→ Creates story 2.3 → Super-dev → Done
...
→ Entire epic complete! ✅

Workflow

┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Auto-Epic Processor                  │
│                                       │
│  1. Read epic definition              │
│  2. For each story in epic:           │
│     ├─ create-story                   │
│     ├─ super-dev-story                │
│     │  ├─ Pre gap analysis            │
│     │  ├─ Development                 │
│     │  ├─ Post gap analysis           │
│     │  ├─ Code review                 │
│     │  └─ Fix issues                  │
│     └─ Mark done                      │
│  3. Epic retrospective                │
│  4. Report completion                 │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘

Use Cases

1. Overnight Processing

# Start before leaving office
/auto-epic epic-3

# Come back next morning
# → Epic 100% complete

2. CI/CD Integration

# In GitHub Actions
bmad auto-epic epic-2 --config production.yaml

3. Batch Sprints

# Process multiple epics
/auto-epic epic-1,epic-2,epic-3

Configuration

# _bmad/bmm/config.yaml

autonomous_mode:
  enabled: true

  # Fail behavior
  halt_on_error: false        # Continue even if story fails
  max_retry_per_story: 3      # Retry failed stories

  # Quality gates
  require_super_dev: true     # Use super-dev for all stories
  require_100_percent: false  # Require 100% test coverage

  # Notification
  notify_on_complete: true    # Send notification when done
  notify_webhook: ""          # Slack/Discord webhook

Safety

Validation Before Start

Autonomous processing will:
- Create 15 stories
- Develop all automatically
- Take approximately 8 hours
- Commit all changes to: feature/epic-2-auto

Confirm? [Y/n]:

Checkpoints

Creates git branch for the epic
Commits after each story
Saves progress if interrupted
Can resume from last completed story

Rollback

# If something goes wrong
/auto-epic rollback epic-2

# Restores to pre-processing state

Example Output

🤖 AUTONOMOUS EPIC PROCESSING: Epic 2 - User Management

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Story 2.1: User Registration
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✅ create-story complete
✅ Pre-gap analysis: 0 changes needed
✅ Development: 8 tasks completed
✅ Post-gap analysis: All verified
✅ Code review: 2 minor issues found
✅ Fixes applied
✅ Story 2.1 DONE

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Story 2.2: User Login
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✅ create-story complete
✅ Pre-gap analysis: Reuse registration code
✅ Development: 6 tasks completed
✅ Post-gap analysis: All verified
✅ Code review: No issues
✅ Story 2.2 DONE

...

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EPIC 2 COMPLETE! 🎉
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Stories completed: 15/15
Total time: 7h 23m
Test coverage: 94%
Code review issues: 12 (all fixed)

Branch: feature/epic-2-auto
Ready to merge!

Implementation Status

✅ IMPLEMENTED in BMAD v6.0.0-alpha.22+
Available as: /autonomous-epic workflow
Requires: Gap analysis and super-dev-story workflows
Status: Ready for testing and feedback

Usage

# Load any BMAD agent (PM, Dev, SM)
/autonomous-epic

# Or specify epic number directly:
/autonomous-epic 2

See autonomous-epic workflow README for complete documentation.

Real-World Usage

This is production-ready but experimental. We recommend:

Test with small epics first (3-5 stories)
Monitor token usage and quality
Review completion reports thoroughly
Provide feedback to improve the feature

Contributing

Found issues or have improvements?

See CONTRIBUTING.md

The future is NOW: Tell BMAD "Do Epic 4" and come back when it's done ✨

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