Bmad Spec
Distill any intent input into the SPEC kernel + companions — the canonical, preservation-validated machine contract for downstream work. Use when the user says "create a spec", "distill this into a spec", "validate this spec", or "update the spec".
Bmad Market Research
Conduct market research on competition and customers. Use when the user says they need market research
Bmad Create Prd
DEPRECATED — consolidated into bmad-prd create intent - this skill will be removed in v7 in favor of `bmad-prd`.
Bmad Advanced Elicitation
Push the LLM to reconsider, refine, and improve its recent output. Use when user asks for deeper critique or mentions a known deeper critique method, e.g. socratic, first principles, pre-mortem, red team.
Bmad Check Implementation Readiness
Validate PRD, UX, Architecture and Epics specs are complete. Use when the user says "check implementation readiness".
Bmad Brainstorming
Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate'.
Bmad Checkpoint Preview
LLM-assisted human-in-the-loop review. Make sense of a change, focus attention where it matters, test. Use when the user says "checkpoint", "human review", or "walk me through this change".
Bmad Tea
Master Test Architect and Quality Advisor. Use when the user asks to talk to Murat or requests the Test Architect.
Bmad Testarch Ci
Scaffold CI/CD quality pipeline with test execution. Use when the user says "lets setup CI pipeline" or "I want to create quality gates
Bmad Qa Generate E2e Tests
Generate end to end automated tests for existing features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]
Bmad Technical Research
Conduct technical research on technologies and architecture. Use when the user says they would like to do or produce a technical research report
Bmad Retrospective
Post-epic review to extract lessons and assess success. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]
Bmad Agent Analyst
Strategic business analyst and requirements expert. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst.
Bmad Create Epics And Stories
Break requirements into epics and user stories. Use when the user says "create the epics and stories list
Bmad Dev Story
Execute story implementation following a context filled story spec file. Use when the user says "dev this story [story file]" or "implement the next story in the sprint plan
Bmad Sprint Status
Summarize sprint status and surface risks. Use when the user says "check sprint status" or "show sprint status
Bmad Party Mode
Orchestrates lively group discussions between installed BMAD agents or custom personas, and helps author custom parties. Use when the user requests party mode, a roundtable, or multiple agent perspectives — or wants to create/configure a party, define personas, or build an AI focus-group panel.
Bmad Code Review
Review code changes adversarially using parallel review layers (Blind Hunter, Edge Case Hunter, Acceptance Auditor) with structured triage into actionable categories. Use when the user says "run code review" or "review this code
Bmad Testarch Automate
Expand test automation coverage for codebase. Use when user says "lets expand test coverage" or "I want to automate tests
Bmad Sprint Planning
Generate sprint status tracking from epics. Use when the user says "run sprint planning" or "generate sprint plan
Bmad Prd
Create, update, or validate a PRD. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a PRD.
Bmad Teach Me Testing
Teach testing progressively through structured sessions. Use when user says "lets learn testing" or "I want to study test practices
Bmad Correct Course
Manage significant changes during sprint execution. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change
Bmad Agent Tech Writer
Technical documentation specialist and knowledge curator. Use when the user asks to talk to Paige or requests the tech writer.
Bmad Agent Pm
Product manager for PRD creation and requirements discovery. Use when the user asks to talk to John or requests the product manager.
Bmad Customize
Authors and updates customization overrides for installed BMad skills. Use when the user says 'customize bmad', 'override a skill', 'change agent behavior', or 'customize a workflow'.
Bmad Product Brief
Create, update, or validate a product brief. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a brief.
Bmad Investigate
Forensic case investigation with evidence-graded findings, calibrated to the input. Use when the user asks to investigate a bug, trace what caused an incident, walk through unfamiliar code, or build a mental model of a code area before working on it.
Bmad Architecture
Produce the architecture: a lean spine of invariants that keeps everything built from it consistent, projected into whatever format the work needs. Use when the user says "create the architecture", "create technical architecture", "architecture spine", or "create a solution design".
Bmad Document Project
Document brownfield projects for AI context. Use when the user says "document this project" or "generate project docs
Bmad Agent Ux Designer
UX designer and UI specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sally or requests the UX designer.
Bmad Create Architecture
DEPRECATED — consolidated into bmad-architecture create intent - this skill will be removed in v7 in favor of `bmad-architecture`.
Bmad Agent Architect
System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect.
Bmad Forge Idea
Pressure-test an idea through persona-driven interrogation until it hardens, proves out, or dies cheaply. Use when the user says 'forge an idea', 'pressure-test this idea', 'stress-test my thinking', or 'harden this idea'.
Bmad Prfaq
Working Backwards PRFAQ challenge that stress-tests a product concept customer-first. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ', 'work backwards', or 'run the PRFAQ challenge'.
Bmad Testarch Framework
Initialize test framework with Playwright or Cypress. Use when the user says "lets setup test framework" or "I want to initialize testing framework
Bmad Edit Prd
DEPRECATED — consolidated into bmad-prd update intent - this skill will be removed in v7 in favor of `bmad-prd`.
Bmad Agent Dev
Senior software engineer for story execution and code implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent.
Bmad Create Story
Creates a dedicated story file with all the context the agent will need to implement it later. Use when the user says "create the next story" or "create story [story identifier]
Bmad Help
Analyzes current state and user query to answer BMad questions or recommend the next skill(s) to use. Use when user asks for help, bmad help, what to do next, or what to start with in BMad.
Bmad Testarch Atdd
Generate red-phase acceptance test scaffolds using the TDD cycle. Use when the user says "lets write acceptance tests" or "I want to do ATDD
Bmad Quick Dev
Implements any user intent, requirement, story, bug fix or change request by producing clean working code artifacts that follow the project''s existing architecture, patterns and conventions. Use when the user wants to build, fix, tweak, refactor, add or modify any code, component or feature.
Bmad Domain Research
Conduct domain and industry research. Use when the user says wants to do domain research for a topic or industry
Bmad Generate Project Context
Create project-context.md with AI rules. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context