Agent identity (name, title) and the Overview prose are now baked into
each SKILL.md rather than resolved from customize.yaml. This anchors
skill-discovery (description keywords still match), protects brand
identity (Mary is Mary), and leaves the customize.yaml surface for
behavior changes only.
customize.yaml slimming:
- Dropped metadata.title (hardcoded in SKILL.md heading + Overview)
- Dropped metadata.capabilities (dead field; nothing downstream read it)
- Luminary-anchored identity strings (Porter+Minto, Evans+Tufte,
Cagan+Torres+Bezos, Norman+Cooper, Fowler+Vogels, Beck+Pragmatic
Programmer) — higher signal density, ~55% token savings per persona
- Preserved distinctive communication_style voice beats per agent
- Principles trimmed to 3-4 cite-worthy heuristics each
SKILL.md changes (all 6 agents):
- New top-of-body heading: `# Name — Title`
- New `## Overview` section with hardcoded capability prose
- Step 2 (Adopt Persona) rewritten to layer customized persona on top
of the Overview-established identity
- bmad-agent-dev gains an `## Operating Rules` section containing its
8 non-negotiable behavioral invariants (moved from customize.yaml
critical_actions, since they're brand-protected invariants, not
team-customizable startup steps)
customize.yaml now defines per-agent:
- icon (cosmetic)
- persona.{role, identity, communication_style, principles} (customizable)
- critical_actions (empty by default, extensibility hook for teams)
- memories (empty by default, extensibility hook for teams)
- menu (default items, mergeable by code)
manifest-generator.js: dropped `capabilities` column from
agent-manifest.csv header, write, and read paths (field was write-only
noise — no consumer ever read it back).
Docs: customize-bmad.md now notes agent names are fixed by design so
skills can be reliably invoked by role or default name.
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