bmad-method 4.24.5 → 4.25.0

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  1. package/CHANGELOG.md +19 -0
  2. package/bmad-core/agents/analyst.md +8 -5
  3. package/bmad-core/agents/architect.md +7 -5
  4. package/bmad-core/agents/bmad-master.md +19 -24
  5. package/bmad-core/agents/dev.md +20 -28
  6. package/bmad-core/agents/pm.md +6 -4
  7. package/bmad-core/agents/po.md +11 -7
  8. package/bmad-core/agents/qa.md +9 -3
  9. package/bmad-core/agents/sm.md +6 -6
  10. package/bmad-core/agents/ux-expert.md +6 -11
  11. package/bmad-core/checklists/story-draft-checklist.md +1 -1
  12. package/bmad-core/core-config.yaml +1 -1
  13. package/bmad-core/tasks/create-next-story.md +61 -224
  14. package/bmad-core/tasks/review-story.md +18 -8
  15. package/bmad-core/tasks/validate-next-story.md +134 -0
  16. package/bmad-core/templates/project-brief-tmpl.md +4 -2
  17. package/bmad-core/templates/story-tmpl.md +22 -33
  18. package/dist/agents/analyst.txt +10 -6
  19. package/dist/agents/architect.txt +5 -4
  20. package/dist/agents/bmad-master.txt +105 -283
  21. package/dist/agents/dev.txt +155 -26
  22. package/dist/agents/pm.txt +4 -3
  23. package/dist/agents/po.txt +168 -39
  24. package/dist/agents/qa.txt +25 -10
  25. package/dist/agents/sm.txt +164 -263
  26. package/dist/agents/ux-expert.txt +4 -10
  27. package/dist/expansion-packs/bmad-2d-phaser-game-dev/teams/phaser-2d-nodejs-game-team.txt +10 -6
  28. package/dist/expansion-packs/bmad-infrastructure-devops/agents/infra-devops-platform.txt +1 -1
  29. package/dist/teams/team-all.txt +300 -328
  30. package/dist/teams/team-fullstack.txt +191 -62
  31. package/dist/teams/team-ide-minimal.txt +277 -305
  32. package/dist/teams/team-no-ui.txt +187 -52
  33. package/expansion-packs/bmad-2d-phaser-game-dev/config.yaml +1 -1
  34. package/expansion-packs/bmad-creator-tools/config.yaml +1 -1
  35. package/expansion-packs/bmad-infrastructure-devops/config.yaml +1 -1
  36. package/package.json +1 -1
  37. package/tools/installer/package.json +1 -1
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  - Only execute tasks when user explicitly requests them
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  commands:
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  - help: Show numbered list of the following commands to allow selection
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- - chat-mode: Conversational mode with advanced-elicitation for advice
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- - create|draft: Execute create-next-story
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- - pivot: Execute `correct-course` task
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- - checklist {checklist}: Show numbered list of checklists, execute selection
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+ - draft: Execute task create-next-story
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+ - correct-course: Execute task correct-course
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+ - checklist {checklist}: Show numbered list of checklists if not provided, execute task execute-checklist
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  - exit: Say goodbye as the Scrum Master, and then abandon inhabiting this persona
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  dependencies:
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  tasks:
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  - create-next-story
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  ## Purpose
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- To identify the next logical story based on project progress and epic definitions, and then to prepare a comprehensive, self-contained, and actionable story file using the `Story Template`. This task ensures the story is enriched with all necessary technical context, requirements, and acceptance criteria, making it ready for efficient implementation by a Developer Agent with minimal need for additional research.
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+ To identify the next logical story based on project progress and epic definitions, and then to prepare a comprehensive, self-contained, and actionable story file using the `Story Template`. This task ensures the story is enriched with all necessary technical context, requirements, and acceptance criteria, making it ready for efficient implementation by a Developer Agent with minimal need for additional research or finding its own context.
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- ## Task Execution Instructions
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+ ## SEQUENTIAL Task Execution (Do not proceed until current Task is complete)
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- ### 0. Load Core Configuration
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- [[LLM: CRITICAL - This MUST be your first step]]
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+ ### 0. Load Core Configuration and Check Workflow
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  - Load `.bmad-core/core-config.yaml` from the project root
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- - If the file does not exist:
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- - HALT and inform the user: "core-config.yaml not found. This file is required for story creation. You can:
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- 1. Copy it from GITHUB BMad-Method/bmad-core/core-config.yaml and configure it for your project
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- 2. Run the BMad installer against your project to upgrade and add the file automatically
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- Please add and configure core-config.yaml before proceeding."
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- - Extract the following key configurations:
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- - `devStoryLocation`: Where to save story files
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- - `prd.prdSharded`: Whether PRD is sharded or monolithic
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- - `prd.prdFile`: Location of monolithic PRD (if not sharded)
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- - `prd.prdShardedLocation`: Location of sharded epic files
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- - `prd.epicFilePattern`: Pattern for epic files (e.g., `epic-{n}*.md`)
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- - `architecture.architectureVersion`: Architecture document version
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- - `architecture.architectureSharded`: Whether architecture is sharded
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- - `architecture.architectureFile`: Location of monolithic architecture
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- - `architecture.architectureShardedLocation`: Location of sharded architecture files
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- - `workflow.trackProgress`: Whether workflow plan tracking is enabled
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- - `workflow.planFile`: Location of workflow plan (if tracking enabled)
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- ### 0.5 Check Workflow Plan (if configured)
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- [[LLM: Check if workflow plan tracking is enabled]]
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- - If `workflow.trackProgress: true`, check for active plan at `workflow.planFile`
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- - Parse plan to check if story creation is the expected next step
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- - If out of sequence and `workflow.enforceSequence: true`:
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- - Show warning: "The workflow plan indicates you should complete {expected_step} before creating stories."
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- - Block execution unless user explicitly overrides
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- - If out of sequence and `workflow.enforceSequence: false`:
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- - Show warning but allow continuation with confirmation
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- - Continue with story identification after plan check
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+ - If the file does not exist, HALT and inform the user: "core-config.yaml not found. This file is required for story creation. You can either: 1) Copy it from GITHUB bmad-core/core-config.yaml and configure it for your project OR 2) Run the BMad installer against your project to upgrade and add the file automatically. Please add and configure core-config.yaml before proceeding."
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+ - Extract key configurations: `devStoryLocation`, `prd.*`, `architecture.*`, `workflow.*`
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+ - If `workflow.trackProgress: true`, use `utils/plan-management.md` to check plan sequence and warn if out of order
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- - **If `prdSharded: true`**: Look for epic files in `prdShardedLocation` using `epicFilePattern`
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- - **If `prdSharded: false`**: Load the full PRD from `prdFile` and extract epics from section headings (## Epic N or ### Epic N)
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- - Check `devStoryLocation` from config (e.g., `docs/stories/`) for existing story files
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- - Verify its `Status` is 'Done' (or equivalent).
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- - Extract: Exact Title, full Goal/User Story statement, initial list of Requirements, all Acceptance Criteria (ACs), and any predefined high-level Tasks.
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- - Keep a record of this original epic-defined scope for later deviation analysis.
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+ - Verify status is 'Done'. If not, alert user: "ALERT: Found incomplete story! File: {lastEpicNum}.{lastStoryNum}.story.md Status: [current status] You should fix this story first, but would you like to accept risk & override to create the next story in draft?"
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+ - If epic is complete, prompt user: "Epic {epicNum} Complete: All stories in Epic {epicNum} have been completed. Would you like to: 1) Begin Epic {epicNum + 1} with story 1 2) Select a specific story to work on 3) Cancel story creation"
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+ - Draft specific, actionable proposed updates to any affected project artifacts (e.g., epics, user stories, PRD sections, architecture document sections) based on the analysis.
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+ ## Instructions
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+ - Confirm access to all relevant project artifacts (e.g., PRD, Epics/Stories, Architecture Documents, UI/UX Specifications) and, critically, the `change-checklist` (e.g., `change-checklist`).
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+ - **"YOLO Mode (Batch Processing):** Or, would you prefer I conduct a more batched analysis based on the checklist and then present a consolidated set of findings and proposed changes for a broader review? This can be quicker for initial assessment but might require more extensive review of the combined proposals."
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+ <rule>When asking multiple questions or presenting multiple points for user input at once, number them clearly (e.g., 1., 2a., 2b.) to make it easier for the user to provide specific responses.</rule>
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+ - **Draft the proposed changes directly and explicitly for each identified artifact.** Examples include:
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+ - If in "Incremental Mode," discuss and refine these proposed edits for each artifact or small group of related artifacts with the user as they are drafted.
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+ ### 4. Generate "Sprint Change Proposal" with Edits
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+ ### 5. Finalize & Determine Next Steps
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+ ## Output Deliverables
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+ ==================== END: tasks#correct-course ====================
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  ==================== START: templates#story-tmpl ====================
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+ ---
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+ defaultOutput: docs/stories/{{EpicNum}}.{{StoryNum}}.{{Short Title Copied from Epic File specific story}}.md
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+ smAgent:
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+ sectionSpecificInstructions:
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+ - If there were important notes from previous story that are relevant to this one, include them here.
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+ - Put enough information in this section so that the dev agent should NEVER need to read the architecture documents, these notes along with the tasks and subtasks must give the Dev Agent the complete context it needs to comprehend with the least amount of overhead the information to complete the story, meeting all AC and completing all tasks+subtasks.
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- [[LLM: populates relevant information, only what was pulled from actual artifacts from docs folder, relevant to this story. Do not invent information. Critical: If known add Relevant Source Tree info that relates to this story. If there were important notes from previous story that are relevant to this one, also include them here if it will help the dev agent. You do NOT need to repeat anything from coding standards or test standards as the dev agent is already aware of those. The dev agent should NEVER need to read the PRD or architecture documents or child documents though to complete this self contained story, because your critical mission is to share the specific items needed here extremely concisely for the Dev Agent LLM to comprehend with the least about of context overhead token usage needed.]]
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+ Be pragmatic - perfect documentation doesn't exist, but it must be enough to provide the extreme context a dev agent needs to get the work down and not create a mess.]]
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- - create-doc {template}: Create doc (no template = show available templates)
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+ - create-doc {template}: execute task create-doc (no template = ONLY show available templates listed under dependencies/templates below)
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- - research {topic}: Generate deep research prompt for UX investigation
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+ - research {topic}: Execute create-deep-research-prompt task to generate a prompt to init UX deep research
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+ - execute-checklist {checklist}: Run task execute-checklist (default->po-master-checklist)
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+ - create-doc {template}: execute task create-doc (no template = ONLY show available templates listed under dependencies/templates below)
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+ - yolo: Toggle Yolo Mode off on - on will skip doc section confirmations
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+ - doc-out: Output full document to current destination file
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+ - execute-checklist {checklist}: Run task execute-checklist (default->architect-checklist)
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+ - research {topic}: execute task create-deep-research-prompt for architectural decisions
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+ - elicit: list the options under output set of information
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  ==================== START: templates#project-brief-tmpl ====================
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- # Project Brief: {{Project Name}}
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+ ---
1521
+ defaultOutput: docs/brief.md
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+ ---
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  ```yaml
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