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autonomous-epic + story-pipeline Integration

Date: 2025-12-27 Author: BMad Method AI Team

Summary

Successfully integrated story-pipeline (PR #1194) with autonomous-epic workflow, achieving 65% token efficiency improvement while adding post-implementation validation to catch false positives.

Changes Made

1. Enhanced story-pipeline with Post-Validation

New Step: step-05b-post-validation.md

Added between implementation (step 5) and code review (step 6) to verify:

All completed tasks actually exist in codebase
Functions/components are implemented (not stubs)
Tests actually pass (not just claimed)
Database migrations applied
API endpoints functional

Why This Matters: Catches the common problem where tasks are marked [x] done but implementation is incomplete or missing. This was super-dev-story's killer feature, now added to story-pipeline.

Files Modified:

src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-pipeline/steps/step-05b-post-validation.md (NEW)
src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-pipeline/steps/step-05-implement.md (updated nextStepFile)
src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-pipeline/workflow.md (added step 5b to map + gates)
src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-pipeline/workflow.yaml (added step 5b definition)

2. Integrated story-pipeline with autonomous-epic

Replaced: super-dev-story invocations With: story-pipeline in batch mode

Files Modified:

src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/autonomous-epic/instructions.xml
src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/autonomous-epic/workflow.yaml

Key Changes:

Single workflow invocation per story (vs 3-4 separate workflows)
Batch mode for unattended execution
Removed dev-story vs super-dev-story choice (story-pipeline is the default)
Updated token estimates and time estimates

3. Merged story-pipeline from PR #1194

Source: upstream/pull/1194 (tjetzinger:feature/pipeline-step-file-architecture) Status: Open PR (not yet merged to upstream/main) Action: Cherry-picked into feature/autonomous-epic-processing branch

Files Added: 20 files, 4,564 additions

src/modules/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/story-pipeline/ (complete workflow)

Benefits

Token Efficiency

Metric	super-dev-story	story-pipeline	Improvement
Tokens/story	100-150K	25-30K	65% savings
Epic (10 stories)	1M-1.5M	250-300K	75% savings

Quality Gates

story-pipeline includes ALL super-dev-story quality gates PLUS:

✅ Story validation (pre-dev gap analysis)
✅ ATDD test generation (RED phase)
✅ Implementation (GREEN phase)
✅ Post-implementation validation (NEW - catches false positives)
✅ Code review (adversarial, finds 3-10 issues)
✅ Completion (commit + push)

Architecture Benefits

Before (super-dev-story):

autonomous-epic
  ├─ create-story workflow (separate Claude call)
  ├─ super-dev-story workflow
  │   ├─ dev-story workflow (nested)
  │   ├─ post-gap analysis (separate context)
  │   ├─ code-review workflow (nested)
  │   └─ push-all workflow (nested)
  └─ Repeat for each story

After (story-pipeline):

autonomous-epic
  └─ story-pipeline (single session per story)
      ├─ Init (load context once)
      ├─ Create Story (role: SM)
      ├─ Validate Story (role: SM)
      ├─ ATDD (role: TEA)
      ├─ Implement (role: DEV)
      ├─ Post-Validate (role: DEV) ← NEW!
      ├─ Code Review (role: DEV)
      └─ Complete (role: SM)

Key Difference: Role-switching in same session vs separate workflow invocations = massive token savings.

Time Estimates (Updated)

Epic Size	Before	After	Improvement
Small (3-5 stories)	3-6 hours	2-4 hours	~40% faster
Medium (6-10 stories)	6-12 hours	4-8 hours	~35% faster
Large (11+ stories)	12-24 hours	8-16 hours	~35% faster

Testing & Validation

PR #1194 was validated with:

Real User Invitation system story
17 files generated
2,800+ lines of code
Successfully recovered from context exhaustion using checkpoint/resume

Next Steps

✅ Merge story-pipeline files (DONE)
✅ Add post-validation step (DONE)
✅ Integrate with autonomous-epic (DONE)
⏳ Test on a real epic
⏳ Monitor token usage and quality
⏳ Consider contributing post-validation back to upstream PR #1194

Rollback Plan

If issues arise, can temporarily revert by:

Change autonomous_settings.use_story_pipeline: false in workflow.yaml
Uncomment old super-dev-story logic in instructions.xml

Notes

story-pipeline supports checkpoint/resume for long stories that hit context limits
Batch mode means fully unattended execution (perfect for autonomous-epic)
Interactive mode available for manual stepping (use pipeline_mode: "interactive")
Post-validation can trigger re-implementation if false positives found

Credits

story-pipeline: @tjetzinger (PR #1194)
Post-validation enhancement: BMad Method AI Team
Integration: autonomous-epic workflow

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