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Native Skills Migration Checklist

Branch: refactor/all-is-skills

Scope: migrate the BMAD-supported platforms that fully support the Agent Skills standard from legacy installer outputs to native skills output.

Current branch status:

  • Claude Code has already been moved to .claude/skills
  • Codex CLI has already been moved to .agents/skills

This checklist now includes those completed platforms plus the remaining full-support platforms.

Claude Code

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD has already migrated from .claude/commands to .claude/skills.

  • Confirm current implementation still matches Claude Code skills expectations
  • Confirm legacy cleanup for .claude/commands
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy command output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection
  • Implement/extend automated tests as needed
  • Commit any follow-up fixes if required

Codex CLI

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD has already migrated from .codex/prompts to .agents/skills.

  • Confirm current implementation still matches Codex CLI skills expectations
  • Confirm legacy cleanup for project and global .codex/prompts
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy prompt output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection because Codex inherits parent-directory .agents/skills
  • Implement/extend automated tests as needed
  • Commit any follow-up fixes if required

Cursor

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs legacy command files to .cursor/commands; target should move to a native skills directory.

  • Confirm current Cursor skills path and that BMAD should target .cursor/skills
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .cursor/commands
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy command output
  • Confirm no ancestor conflict protection is needed because a child workspace surfaced child .cursor/skills entries but not a parent-only skill during manual verification
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Windsurf

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. Windsurf docs confirm workspace skills at .windsurf/skills and global skills at ~/.codeium/windsurf/skills. BMAD has now migrated from .windsurf/workflows to .windsurf/skills. Manual verification also confirmed that Windsurf custom skills are triggered via @skill-name, not slash commands.

  • Confirm Windsurf native skills directory as .windsurf/skills
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .windsurf/workflows
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy workflow output
  • Confirm no ancestor conflict protection is needed because manual Windsurf verification showed child-local @ skills loaded while a parent-only skill was not inherited
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Cline

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs workflow files to .clinerules/workflows; target should move to the platform's native skills directory.

  • Confirm current Cline skills path and whether .cline/skills is the correct BMAD target
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .clinerules/workflows
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy workflow output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Google Antigravity

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs workflows to .agent/workflows; target should move to .agent/skills.

  • Confirm Antigravity native skills path and project/global precedence
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .agent/workflows
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy workflow output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Auggie

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs commands to .augment/commands; target should move to .augment/skills.

  • Confirm Auggie native skills path and whether it also reads .claude/skills or .agents/skills
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .augment/commands
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy command output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

CodeBuddy

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs commands to .codebuddy/commands; target should move to .codebuddy/skills.

  • Confirm CodeBuddy native skills path and any naming/frontmatter requirements
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .codebuddy/commands
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy command output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Crush

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs commands to .crush/commands; target should move to the platform's native skills location.

  • Confirm Crush project-local versus global skills path and BMAD's preferred install target
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .crush/commands
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy command output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Kiro

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. Kiro docs confirm project skills at .kiro/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md and describe steering as a separate rules mechanism, not a required compatibility layer. BMAD has now migrated from .kiro/steering to .kiro/skills.

  • Confirm Kiro skills path and verify BMAD should stop writing steering artifacts for this migration
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .kiro/steering
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy steering output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable; docs only confirm workspace and global scopes, so parent-directory inheritance still needs manual app verification before enabling ancestor_conflict_check
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

OpenCode

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently splits output between .opencode/agents and .opencode/commands; target should consolidate to .opencode/skills.

  • Confirm OpenCode native skills path and whether .claude/skills or .agents/skills compatibility matters
  • Implement installer migration from multi-target legacy output to single native skills target
  • Add legacy cleanup for .opencode/agents, .opencode/commands, .opencode/agent, and .opencode/command
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from split legacy output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection if OpenCode inherits parent-directory skills
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Roo Code

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs commands to .roo/commands; target should move to .roo/skills or the correct mode-aware skill directories.

  • Confirm Roo native skills path and whether BMAD should use generic or mode-specific skill directories
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .roo/commands
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy command output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Trae

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently installs rule files to .trae/rules; target should move to the platform's native skills directory.

  • Confirm Trae native skills path and whether the current .trae/rules path is still required for compatibility
  • Implement installer migration to native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .trae/rules
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy rules output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

GitHub Copilot

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently uses a custom installer that generates .github/agents, .github/prompts, and .github/copilot-instructions.md; target should move to .github/skills.

  • Confirm GitHub Copilot native skills path and whether .github/agents remains necessary as a compatibility layer
  • Design the migration away from the custom prompt/agent installer model
  • Implement native skills output, ideally with shared config-driven code where practical
  • Add legacy cleanup for .github/agents, .github/prompts, and any BMAD-owned Copilot instruction file behavior that should be retired
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy custom installer output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

KiloCoder

Support assumption: full Agent Skills support. BMAD currently uses a custom installer that writes .kilocodemodes and .kilocode/workflows; target should move to native skills output.

  • Confirm KiloCoder native skills path and whether .kilocodemodes should be removed entirely or retained temporarily for compatibility
  • Design the migration away from modes plus workflow markdown
  • Implement native skills output
  • Add legacy cleanup for .kilocode/workflows and BMAD-owned entries in .kilocodemodes
  • Test fresh install
  • Test reinstall/upgrade from legacy custom installer output
  • Confirm ancestor conflict protection where applicable
  • Implement/extend automated tests
  • Commit

Summary Gates

  • All full-support BMAD platforms install SKILL.md directory-based output
  • No full-support platform still emits BMAD command/workflow/rule files as its primary install format
  • Legacy cleanup paths are defined for every migrated platform
  • Automated coverage exists for config-driven and custom-installer migrations
  • Installer docs and migration notes updated after code changes land