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 # Changelog
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [6.0.0-alpha.21]
 
-### Codex Installer
+**Release: December 27, 2025**
 
-- Codex installer uses custom prompts in `.codex/prompts/`, instead of `AGENTS.md`
+### 🌟 Key Highlights
 
-## [6.0.0-alpha.0]
+1. **Consistent Menu System**: All agents now use standardized 2-letter menu codes (e.g., "rd" for research, "ca" for create-architecture)
+2. **Planning Artifacts Architecture**: Phase 1-3 workflows now properly segregate planning artifacts from documentation
+3. **Windows Installer Fixed Again**: Updated inquirer to resolve multiselection tool issues
+4. **Auto-Injected Features**: Chat and party mode automatically injected into all agents
+5. **Validation System**: All agents now pass comprehensive new validation checks
 
-**Release: September 28, 2025**
+### 🎯 Consistent Menu System (Major Feature)
+
+**Standardized 2-Letter Codes:**
+
+- **Compound Menu Triggers**: All agents now use consistent 2-letter compound trigger format (e.g., `bmm-rd`, `bmm-ca`)
+- **Improved UX**: Shorter, more memorable command shortcuts across all modules
+- **Module Prefixing**: Menu items properly scoped by module prefix (bmm-, bmgd-, cis-, bmb-)
+- **Universal Pattern**: All 22 agents updated to follow the same menu structure
+
+**Agent Updates:**
+
+- **BMM Module**: 9 agents with standardized menus (pm, analyst, architect, dev, ux-designer, tech-writer, sm, tea, quick-flow-solo-dev)
+- **BMGD Module**: 6 agents with standardized menus (game-architect, game-designer, game-dev, game-qa, game-scrum-master, game-solo-dev)
+- **CIS Module**: 6 agents with standardized menus (innovation-strategist, design-thinking-coach, creative-problem-solver, brainstorming-coach, presentation-master, storyteller)
+- **BMB Module**: 3 agents with standardized menus (bmad-builder, agent-builder, module-builder, workflow-builder)
+- **Core Module**: BMAD Master agent updated with consistent menu patterns
+
+### 📁 Planning Artifacts Architecture
+
+**Content Segregation Implementation:**
+
+- **Phase 1-3 Workflows**: All planning workflows now use `planning_artifacts` folder (default changed from `docs`)
+- **Proper Input Discovery**: Workflows follow consistent input discovery patterns from planning artifacts
+- **Output Management**: Planning artifacts properly separated from long-term documentation
+- **Affected Workflows**:
+  - Product Brief: Updated discovery and output to planning artifacts
+  - PRD: Fixed discovery and output to planning artifacts
+  - UX Design: Updated all steps for proper artifact handling
+  - Architecture: Updated discovery and output flow
+  - Game Architecture: Updated for planning artifacts
+  - Story Creation: Updated workflow output paths
+
+**File Organization:**
+
+- **Planning Artifacts**: Ephemeral planning documents (prd.md, product-brief.md, ux-design.md, architecture.md)
+- **Documentation**: Long-term project documentation (separate from planning)
+- **Module Configuration**: BMM and BMGD modules updated with proper default paths
+
+### 🪟 Windows Installer Fixes
+
+**Inquirer Multiselection Fix:**
+
+- **Updated Inquirer Version**: Resolved tool multiselection issues that were causing Windows installer failures
+- **Better Compatibility**: Improved handling of checkbox and multi-select prompts on Windows(?)
+
+### 🤖 Agent System Improvements
+
+**Auto-Injected Features:**
+
+- **Chat Mode**: Automatically injected into all agents during compilation
+- **Party Mode**: Automatically injected into all agents during compilation
+- **Reduced Manual Configuration**: No need to manually add these features to agent definitions
+- **Consistent Behavior**: All agents now have uniform access to chat and party mode capabilities
+
+**Agent Normalization:**
+
+- **All Agents Validated**: All 22 agents pass comprehensive validation checks
+- **Schema Enforcement**: Proper compound trigger validation implemented
+- **Metadata Cleanup**: Removed obsolete and inconsistent metadata patterns
+- **Test Fixtures Updated**: Validation test fixtures aligned with new requirements
+
+### 🔧 Bug Fixes & Cleanup
+
+**Docusaurus Merge Recovery:**
+
+- **Restored Agent Files**: Fixed agent files accidentally modified in Docusaurus merge (PR #1191)
+- **Reference Cleanup**: Removed obsolete agent reference examples (journal-keeper, security-engineer, trend-analyst)
+- **Test Fixture Updates**: Aligned test fixtures with current validation requirements
+
+**Code Quality:**
+
+- **Schema Improvements**: Enhanced agent schema validation with better error messages
+- **Removed Redundancy**: Cleaned up duplicate and obsolete agent definitions
+- **Installer Cleanup**: Removed unused configuration code from BMM installer
+
+**Planning Artifacts Path:**
+- Default: `planning_artifacts/` (configurable in module.yaml)
+- Previous: `docs/`
+- Benefit: Clear separation between planning work and permanent documentation
+
+---
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.20]
+
+**Release: December 23, 2025**
+
+### 🌟 Key Highlights
+
+1. **Windows Installer Fixed**: Better compatibility with inquirer v9.x upgrade
+2. **Path Segregation**: Revolutionary content organization separating ephemeral artifacts from permanent documentation
+3. **Custom Installation Messages**: Configurable intro/outro messages for professional installation experience
+4. **Enhanced Upgrade Logic**: Two-version auto upgrades with proper config preservation
+5. **Quick-Dev Refactor**: Sharded format with comprehensive adversarial review
+6. **Improved Quality**: Streamlined personas, fixed workflows, and cleaned up documentation
+7. **Doc Site Auto Generation**; Auto Generate a docusaurus site update on merge
+
+### 🪟 Windows Installer (hopefully) Fixed
+
+**Inquirer Upgrade:**
+
+- **Updated to v9.x**: Upgraded inquirer package for better Windows support
+- **Improved Compatibility**: Better handling of Windows terminal environments
+- **Enhanced UX**: More reliable interactive prompts across platforms
+
+### 🎯 Path Segregation Implementation (Major Feature)
+
+**Revolutionary Content Organization:**
+
+- **Phase 1-4 Path Segregation**: Implemented new BM paths across all BMM and BMGD workflows
+- **Planning vs Implementation Artifacts**: Separated ephemeral Phase 4 artifacts from permanent documentation
+- **Optimized File Organization**: Better structure differentiating planning artifacts from long-term project documentation
+- **Backward Compatible**: Existing installations continue working while preparing for optimized content organization
+- **Module Configuration Updates**: Enhanced module.yaml with new path configurations for all phases
+- **Workflow Path Updates**: All 90+ workflow files updated with proper path configurations
+
+**Documentation Cleanup:**
+
+- **Removed Obsolete Documentation**: Cleaned up 3,100+ lines of outdated documentation
+- **Streamlined README Files**: Consolidated and improved module documentation
+- **Enhanced Clarity**: Removed redundant content and improved information architecture
+
+### 💬 Installation Experience Enhancements
+
+**Custom Installation Messages:**
+
+- **Configurable Intro/Outro Messages**: New install-messages.yaml file for customizable installation messages
+- **Professional Installation Flow**: Custom welcome messages and completion notifications
+- **Module-Specific Messaging**: Tailored messages for different installation contexts
+- **Enhanced User Experience**: More informative and personalized installation process
+
+**Core Module Improvements:**
+
+- **Always Ask Questions**: Core module now always prompts for configuration (no accept defaults)
+- **Better User Engagement**: Ensures users actively configure their installation
+- **Improved Configuration Accuracy**: Reduces accidental acceptance of defaults
+
+### 🔧 Upgrade & Configuration Management
+
+**Two-Version Auto Upgrade:**
+
+- **Smarter Upgrade Logic**: Automatic upgrades now span 2 versions (e.g., .16 → .18)
+- **Config Variable Preservation**: Ensures all configuration variables are retained during quick updates
+- **Seamless Updates**: Quick updates now preserve custom settings properly
+- **Enhanced Upgrade Safety**: Better handling of configuration across version boundaries
+
+### 🤖 Workflow Improvements
+
+**Quick-Dev Workflow Refactor (PR #1182):**
+
+- **Sharded Format Conversion**: Converted quick-dev workflow to modern step-file format
+- **Adversarial Review Integration**: Added comprehensive self-check and adversarial review steps
+- **Enhanced Quality Assurance**: 6-step process with mode detection, context gathering, execution, self-check, review, and resolution
+- **578 New Lines Added**: Significant expansion of quick-dev capabilities
+
+**BMGD Workflow Fixes:**
+
+- **workflow-status Filename Correction**: Fixed incorrect filename references (PR #1172)
+- **sprint-planning Update**: Added workflow-status update to game-architecture completion
+- **Path Corrections**: Resolved dead references and syntax errors (PR #1164)
+
+### 🎨 Code Quality & Refactoring
+
+**Persona Streamlining (PR #1167):**
+
+- **Quick-Flow-Solo-Dev Persona**: Streamlined for clarity and accuracy
+- **Improved Agent Behavior**: More focused and efficient solo development support
+
+**Package Management:**
+
+- **package-lock.json Sync**: Ensured version consistency (PR #1168)
+- **Dependency Cleanup**: Reduced package-lock bloat significantly
+
+**Prettier Configuration:**
+
+- **Markdown Underscore Protection**: Prettier will no longer mess up underscores in markdown files
+- **Disabled Auto-Fix**: Markdown formatting issues now handled more intelligently
+- **Better Code Formatting**: Improved handling of special characters in documentation
+
+### 📚 Documentation Updates
+
+**Sponsor Attribution:**
+
+- **DigitalOcean Sponsorship**: Added attribution for DigitalOcean support (PR #1162)
+
+**Content Reorganization:**
+
+- **Removed Unused Docs**: Eliminated obsolete documentation files
+- **Consolidated References**: Merged and reorganized technical references
+- **Enhanced README Files**: Improved module and workflow documentation
+
+### 🧹 Cleanup & Optimization
+
+**File Organization:**
+
+- **Removed Asterisk Insertion**: Eliminated unwanted asterisk insertions into agent files
+- **Removed Unused Commands**: Cleaned up deprecated command references
+- **Consolidated Duplication**: Reduced code duplication across multiple files
+- **Removed Unneeded Folders**: Cleaned up temporary and obsolete directory structures
+
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **23 commits** since alpha.19
+- **90+ workflow files** updated with new path configurations
+- **3,100+ lines of documentation** removed and reorganized
+- **578 lines added** to quick-dev workflow with adversarial review
+- **Major architectural improvement** to content organization
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.19]
+
+**Release: December 18, 2025**
+
+### 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+**Installer Stability:**
+
+- **Fixed \_bmad Folder Stutter**: Resolved issue with duplicate \_bmad folder creation when applying agent custom files
+- **Cleaner Installation**: Removed unnecessary backup file that was causing bloat in the installer
+- **Streamlined Agent Customization**: Fixed path handling for agent custom files to prevent folder duplication
+
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **3 files changed** with critical fix
+- **3,688 lines removed** by eliminating backup files
+- **Improved installer performance** and stability
+
+---
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.18]
+
+**Release: December 18, 2025**
+
+### 🎮 BMGD Module - Complete Game Development Module Updated
+
+**Massive BMGD Overhaul:**
+
+- **New Game QA Agent (GLaDOS)**: Elite Game QA Architect with test automation specialization
+  - Engine-specific expertise: Unity, Unreal, Godot testing frameworks
+  - Comprehensive knowledge base with 15+ testing topics
+  - Complete testing workflows: test-framework, test-design, automate, playtest-plan, performance-test, test-review
+
+- **New Game Solo Dev Agent (Indie)**: Rapid prototyping and iteration specialist
+  - Quick-flow workflows optimized for solo/small team development
+  - Streamlined development process for indie game creators
+
+- **Production Workflow Alignment**: BMGD 4-production now fully aligned with BMM 4-implementation
+  - Removed obsolete workflows: story-done, story-ready, story-context, epic-tech-context
+  - Added sprint-status workflow for project tracking
+  - All workflows updated as standalone with proper XML instructions
+
+**Game Testing Architecture:**
+
+- **Complete Testing Knowledge Base**: 15 comprehensive testing guides covering:
+  - Engine-specific: Unity (TF 1.6.0), Unreal, Godot testing
+  - Game-specific: Playtesting, balance, save systems, multiplayer
+  - Platform: Certification (TRC/XR), localization, input systems
+  - QA Fundamentals: Automation, performance, regression, smoke testing
+
+**New Workflows & Features:**
+
+- **workflow-status**: Multi-mode status checker for game projects
+  - Game-specific project levels (Game Jam → AAA)
+  - Support for gamedev and quickflow paths
+  - Project initialization workflow
+
+- **create-tech-spec**: Game-focused technical specification workflow
+  - Engine-aware (Unity/Unreal/Godot) specifications
+  - Performance and gameplay feel considerations
+
+- **Enhanced Documentation**: Complete documentation suite with 9 guides
+  - agents-guide.md: Reference for all 6 agents
+  - workflows-guide.md: Complete workflow documentation
+  - game-types-guide.md: 24 game type templates
+  - quick-flow-guide.md: Rapid development guide
+  - Comprehensive troubleshooting and glossary
+
+### 🤖 Agent Management Improved
+
+**Agent Recompile Feature:**
+
+- **New Menu Item**: Added "Recompile Agents" option to the installer menu
+- **Selective Compilation**: Recompile only agents without full module upgrade
+- **Faster Updates**: Quick agent updates without complete reinstallation
+- **Customization Integration**: Automatically applies customizations during recompile
+
+**Agent Customization Enhancement:**
+
+- **Complete Field Support**: ALL fields from agent customization YAML are now properly injected
+- **Deep Merge Implementation**: Customizations now properly override all agent properties
+- **Persistent Customizations**: Custom settings survive updates and recompiles
+- **Enhanced Flexibility**: Support for customizing metadata, persona, menu items, and workflows
+
+### 🔧 Installation & Module Management
+
+**Custom Module Installation:**
+
+- **Enhanced Module Addition**: Modify install now supports adding custom modules even if none were originally installed
+- **Flexible Module Management**: Easy addition and removal of custom modules post-installation
+- **Improved Manifest Tracking**: Better tracking of custom vs core modules
+
+**Quality Improvements:**
+
+- **Comprehensive Code Review**: Fixed 20+ issues identified in PR review
+- **Type Validation**: Added proper type checking for configuration values
+- **Path Security**: Enhanced path traversal validation for better security
+- **Documentation Updates**: All documentation updated to reflect new features
+
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **178 files changed** with massive BMGD expansion
+- **28,350+ lines added** across testing documentation and workflows
+- **2 new agents** added to BMGD module
+- **15 comprehensive testing guides** created
+- **Complete alignment** between BMGD and BMM production workflows
+
+### 🌟 Key Highlights
+
+1. **BMGD Module Revolution**: Complete overhaul with professional game development workflows
+2. **Game Testing Excellence**: Comprehensive testing architecture for all major game engines
+3. **Agent Management**: New recompile feature allows quick agent updates without full reinstall
+4. **Full Customization Support**: All agent fields now customizable via YAML
+5. **Industry-Ready Documentation**: Professional-grade guides for game development teams
+
+---
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.17]
+
+**Release: December 16, 2025**
+
+### 🚀 Revolutionary Installer Overhaul
+
+**Unified Installation Experience:**
+
+- **Streamlined Module Installation**: Completely redesigned installer with unified flow for both core and custom content
+- **Single Install Panel**: Eliminated disjointed clearing between modules for smoother, more intuitive installation
+- **Quick Default Selection**: New quick install feature with default selections for faster setup of selected modules
+- **Enhanced UI/UX**: Improved question order, reduced verbose output, and cleaner installation interface
+- **Logical Question Flow**: Reorganized installer questions to follow natural progression and user expectations
+
+**Custom Content Installation Revolution:**
+
+- **Full Custom Content Support**: Re-enabled complete custom content generation and sharing through the installer
+- **Custom Module Tracking**: Manifest now tracks custom modules separately to ensure they're always installed from the custom cache
+- **Custom Installation Order**: Custom modules now install after core modules for better dependency management
+- **Quick Update with Custom Content**: Quick update now properly retains and updates custom content
+- **Agent Customization Integration**: Customizations are now applied during quick updates and agent compilation
+
+### 🧠 Revolutionary Agent Memory & Visibility System
+
+**Breaking Through Dot-Folder Limitations:**
+
+- **Dot-Folder to Underscore Migration**: Critical change from `.bmad` to `_bmad` ensures LLMs (Codex, Claude, and others) can no longer ignore or skip BMAD content - dot folders are commonly filtered out by AI systems
+- **Universal Content Visibility**: Underscore folders are treated as regular content, ensuring full AI agent access to all BMAD resources and configurations
+- **Agent Memory Architecture**: Rolled out comprehensive agent memory support for installed agents with `-sidecar` folders
+- **Persistent Agent Learning**: Sidecar content installs to `_bmad/_memory`, giving each agent the ability to learn and remember important information specific to its role
+
+**Content Location Strategy:**
+
+- **Standardized Memory Location**: All sidecar content now uses `_bmad/_memory` as the unified location for agent memories
+- **Segregated Output System**: New architecture supports differentiating between ephemeral Phase 4 artifacts and long-term documentation
+- **Forward Compatibility**: Existing installations continue working with content in docs folder, with optimization coming in next release
+- **Configuration Cleanup**: Renamed `_cfg` to `_config` for clearer naming conventions
+- **YAML Library Consolidation**: Reduced dependency to use only one YAML library for better stability
+
+### 🎯 Future-Ready Architecture
+
+**Content Organization Preview:**
+
+- **Phase 4 Artifact Segregation**: Infrastructure ready for separating ephemeral workflow artifacts from permanent documentation
+- **Planning vs Implementation Docs**: New system will differentiate between planning artifacts and long-term project documentation
+- **Backward Compatibility**: Current installs maintain full functionality while preparing for optimized content organization
+- **Quick Update Path**: Tomorrow's quick update will fully optimize all BMM workflows to use new segregated output locations
+
+### 🎯 Sample Modules & Documentation
+
+**Comprehensive Examples:**
+
+- **Sample Unitary Module**: Complete example with commit-poet agent and quiz-master workflow
+- **Sample Wellness Module**: Meditation guide and wellness companion agents demonstrating advanced patterns
+- **Enhanced Documentation**: Updated README files and comprehensive installation guides
+- **Custom Content Creation Guides**: Step-by-step documentation for creating and sharing custom modules
+
+### 🔧 Bug Fixes & Optimizations
+
+**Installer Improvements:**
+
+- **Fixed Duplicate Entry Issue**: Resolved duplicate entries in files manifest
+- **Reduced Log Noise**: Less verbose logging during installation for cleaner user experience
+- **Menu Wording Updates**: Improved menu text for better clarity and understanding
+- **Fixed Quick Install**: Resolved issues with quick installation functionality
+
+**Code Quality:**
 
-Initial alpha release of a major rewrite and overhaul improvement of past versions.
+- **Minor Code Cleanup**: General cleanup and refactoring throughout the codebase
+- **Removed Unused Code**: Cleaned up deprecated and unused functionality
+- **Release Workflow Restoration**: Fixed automated release workflow for v6
 
-### Major New Features
+**BMM Phase 4 Workflow Improvements:**
 
-- **Lean Core**: The core of BMad is very simple - common tasks that apply to any future module or agents, along with common agents that will be added to any modules - bmad-web-orchestrator and bmad-master.
-- **BMad Method**: The new BMad Method (AKA bmm) is a complete overhaul of the v4 method, now a fully scale adaptive rewrite. The workflow now scales from small enhancements to massive undertakings across multiple services or architectures, supporting a new vast array of project type, including a full subclass of game development specifics.
-- **BoMB**: The BMad Builder (AKA BoMB) now is able to fully automate creation and conversion of expansion packs from v6 to modules in v6 along with the net new ideation and brainstorming through implementation and testing of net new Modules, Workflows (were tasks and templates), Module Agents, and Standalone Personal Agents
-- **CIS**: The Creative Intelligence Suite (AKA CIS)
+- **Sprint Status Enhancement**: Improved sprint-status validation with interactive correction for unknown values and better epic status handling
+- **Story Status Standardization**: Normalized all story status references to lowercase kebab-case (ready-for-dev, in-progress, review, done)
+- **Removed Stale Story State**: Eliminated deprecated 'drafted' story state - stories now go directly from creation to ready-for-dev
+- **Code Review Clarity**: Improved code review completion message from "Story is ready for next work!" to "Code review complete!" for better clarity
+- **Risk Detection Rules**: Rewrote risk detection rules for better LLM clarity and fixed warnings vs risks naming inconsistency
 
-## [v6.0.0] - SKIPPED
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **40+ commits** since alpha.16
+- **Major installer refactoring** with complete UX overhaul
+- **2 new sample modules** with comprehensive examples
+- **Full custom content support** re-enabled and improved
+
+### 🌟 Key Highlights
+
+1. **Installer Revolution**: The installation system has been completely overhauled for better user experience, reliability, and speed
+2. **Custom Content Freedom**: Users can now easily create, share, and install custom content through the streamlined installer
+3. **AI Visibility Breakthrough**: Migration from `.bmad` to `_bmad` ensures LLMs can access all BMAD content (dot folders are commonly ignored by AI systems)
+4. **Agent Memory System**: Rolled out persistent agent memory support - agents with `-sidecar` folders can now learn and remember important information in `_bmad/_memory`
+5. **Quick Default Selection**: Installation is now faster with smart default selections for popular configurations
+6. **Future-Ready Architecture**: Infrastructure in place for segregating ephemeral artifacts from permanent documentation (full optimization coming in next release)
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.16]
+
+**Release: December 10, 2025**
+
+### 🔧 Temporary Changes & Fixes
+
+**Installation Improvements:**
+
+- **Temporary Custom Content Installation Disable**: Custom content installation temporarily disabled to improve stability
+- **BMB Workflow Path Fixes**: Fixed numerous path references in BMB workflows to ensure proper step file resolution
+- **Package Updates**: Updated dependencies for improved security and performance
+
+**Path Resolution Improvements:**
+
+- **BMB Agent Builder Fixes**: Corrected path references in step files and documentation
+- **Workflow Path Standardization**: Ensured consistent path handling across all BMB workflows
+- **Documentation References**: Updated internal documentation links and references
+
+**Cleanup Changes:**
+
+- **Example Modules Removal**: Temporarily removed example modules to prevent accidental installation
+- **Memory Management**: Improved sidecar file handling for custom modules
+
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **336 files changed** with path fixes and improvements
+- **4 commits** since alpha.15
+
+---
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.15]
+
+**Release: December 7, 2025**
+
+### 🔧 Module Installation Standardization
+
+**Unified Module Configuration:**
+
+- **module.yaml Standard**: All modules now use `module.yaml` instead of `_module-installer/install-config.yaml` for consistent configuration (BREAKING CHANGE)
+- **Universal Installer**: Both core and custom modules now use the same installer with consistent behavior
+- **Streamlined Module Creation**: Module builder templates updated to use new module.yaml standard
+- **Enhanced Module Discovery**: Improved module caching and discovery mechanisms
+
+**Custom Content Installation Revolution:**
+
+- **Interactive Custom Content Search**: Installer now proactively asks if you have custom content to install
+- **Flexible Location Specification**: Users can indicate custom content location during installation
+- **Improved Custom Module Handler**: Enhanced error handling and debug output for custom installations
+- **Comprehensive Documentation**: New custom-content-installation.md guide (245 lines) replacing custom-agent-installation.md
+
+### 🤖 Code Review Integration Expansion
+
+**AI Review Tools:**
+
+- **CodeRabbit AI Integration**: Added .coderabbit.yaml configuration for automated code review
+- **Raven's Verdict PR Review Tool**: New PR review automation tool (297 lines of documentation)
+- **Review Path Configuration**: Proper exclusion patterns for node_modules and generated files
+- **Review Documentation**: Comprehensive usage guidance and skip conditions for PRs
+
+### 📚 Documentation Improvements
+
+**Documentation Restructuring:**
+
+- **Code of Conduct**: Moved to .github/ folder following GitHub standards
+- **Gem Creation Link**: Updated to point to Gemini Gem manager instead of deprecated interface
+- **Example Custom Content**: Improved README files and disabled example modules to prevent accidental installation
+- **Custom Module Documentation**: Enhanced module installation guides with new YAML structure
+
+### 🧹 Cleanup & Optimization
+
+**Memory Management:**
+
+- **Removed Hardcoded .bmad Folders**: Cleaned up demo content to use configurable paths
+- **Sidecar File Cleanup**: Removed old .bmad-user-memory folders from wellness modules
+- **Example Content Organization**: Better organization of example-custom-content directory
+
+**Installer Improvements:**
+
+- **Debug Output Enhancement**: Added informative debug output when installer encounters errors
+- **Custom Module Caching**: Improved caching mechanism for custom module installations
+- **Consistent Behavior**: All modules now behave consistently regardless of custom or core status
+
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **77 files changed** with 2,852 additions and 607 deletions
+- **15 commits** since alpha.14
+
+### ⚠️ Breaking Changes
+
+1. **module.yaml Configuration**: All modules must now use `module.yaml` instead of `_module-installer/install-config.yaml`
+   - Core modules updated automatically
+   - Custom modules will need to rename their configuration file
+   - Module builder templates generate new format
+
+### 📦 New Dependencies
+
+- No new dependencies added in this release
+
+---
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.14]
+
+**Release: December 7, 2025**
+
+### 🔧 Installation & Configuration Revolution
+
+**Custom Module Installation Overhaul:**
+
+- **Simple custom.yaml Installation**: Custom agents and workflows can now be installed with a single YAML file
+- **IDE Configuration Preservation**: Upgrades will no longer delete custom modules, agents, and workflows from IDE configuration
+- **Removed Legacy agent-install Command**: Streamlined installation process (BREAKING CHANGE)
+- **Sidecar File Retention**: Custom sidecar files are preserved during updates
+- **Flexible Agent Sidecar Locations**: Fully configurable via config options instead of hardcoded paths
+
+**Module Discovery System Transformation:**
+
+- **Recursive Agent Discovery**: Deep scanning for agents across entire project structure
+- **Enhanced Manifest Generation**: Comprehensive scanning of all installed modules
+- **Nested Agent Support**: Fixed nested agents appearing in CLI commands
+- **Module Reinstall Fix**: Prevented modules from showing as obsolete during reinstall
+
+### 🏗️ Advanced Builder Features
+
+**Workflow Builder Evolution:**
+
+- **Continuable Workflows**: Create workflows with sophisticated branching and continuation logic
+- **Template LOD Options**: Level of Detail output options for flexible workflow generation
+- **Step-Based Architecture**: Complete conversion to granular step-file system
+- **Enhanced Creation Process**: Improved workflow creation with better template handling
+
+**Module Builder Revolution:**
+
+- **11-Step Module Creation**: Comprehensive step-by-step module generation process
+- **Production-Ready Templates**: Complete templates for agents, installers, and workflow plans
+- **Built-in Validation System**: Ensures module quality and BMad Core compliance
+- **Professional Documentation**: Auto-generated module documentation and structure
+
+### 🚀 BMad Method (BMM) Enhancements
+
+**Workflow Improvements:**
+
+- **Brownfield PRD Support**: Enhanced PRD workflow for existing project integration
+- **Sprint Status Command**: New workflow for tracking development progress
+- **Step-Based Format**: Improved continue functionality across all workflows
+- **Quick-Spec-Flow Documentation**: Rapid development specification flows
+
+**Documentation Revolution:**
+
+- **Comprehensive Troubleshooting Guide**: 680-line detailed troubleshooting documentation
+- **Quality Check Integration**: Added markdownlint-cli2 for markdown quality assurance
+- **Enhanced Test Architecture**: Improved CI/CD templates and testing workflows
+
+### 🌟 New Features & Integrations
+
+**Kiro-Cli Installer:**
+
+- **Intelligent Routing**: Smart routing to quick-dev workflow
+- **BMad Core Compliance**: Full compliance with BMad standards
+
+**Discord Notifications:**
+
+- **Compact Format**: Streamlined plain-text notifications
+- **Bug Fixes**: Resolved notification delivery issues
+
+**Example Mental Wellness Module (MWM):**
+
+- **Complete Module Example**: Demonstrates advanced module patterns
+- **Multiple Agents**: CBT Coach, Crisis Navigator, Meditation Guide, Wellness Companion
+- **Workflow Showcase**: Crisis support, daily check-in, meditation, journaling workflows
+
+### 🐛 Bug Fixes & Optimizations
+
+- Fixed version reading from package.json instead of hardcoded fallback
+- Removed hardcoded years from WebSearch queries
+- Removed broken build caching mechanism
+- Enhanced TTS injection summary with tracking and documentation
+- Fixed CI nvmrc configuration issues
+
+### 📊 Statistics
+
+- **335 files changed** with 17,161 additions and 8,204 deletions
+- **46 commits** since alpha.13
+
+### ⚠️ Breaking Changes
+
+1. **Removed agent-install Command**: Migrate to new custom.yaml installation system
+2. **Agent Sidecar Configuration**: Now requires explicit config instead of hardcoded paths
+
+### 📦 New Dependencies
+
+- `markdownlint-cli2: ^0.19.1` - Professional markdown linting
+
+---
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.13]
+
+**Release: November 30, 2025**
+
+### 🏗️ Revolutionary Workflow Architecture
+
+- **Step-File System**: Complete conversion to granular step-file architecture with dynamic menu generation
+- **Phase 4 Transformation**: Simplified architecture with sprint planning integration (Jira, Linear, Trello)
+- **Performance Improvements**: Eliminated time-based estimates, reduced file loading times
+- **Legacy Cleanup**: Removed all deprecated workflows for cleaner system
+
+### 🤖 Agent System Revolution
+
+- **Universal Custom Agent Support**: Extended to ALL IDEs including Antigravity and Rovo Dev
+- **Agent Creation Workflow**: Enhanced with better documentation and parameter clarity
+- **Multi-Source Discovery**: Agents now check multiple source locations for better discovery
+- **GitHub Migration**: Integration moved from chatmodes to agents folder
+
+### 🧪 Testing Infrastructure
+
+- **Playwright Utils Integration**: @seontechnologies/playwright-utils across all testing workflows
+- **TTS Injection System**: Complete text-to-speech integration for voice feedback
+- **Web Bundle Test Support**: Enabled web bundles for test environments
+
+### ⚠️ Breaking Changes
+
+1. **Legacy Workflows Removed**: Migrate to new stepwise sharded workflows
+2. **Phase 4 Restructured**: Update automation expecting old Phase 4 structure
+3. **Agent Compilation Required**: Custom agents must use new creation workflow
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.12]
+
+**Release: November 19, 2025**
+
+### 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- Added missing `yaml` dependency to fix `MODULE_NOT_FOUND` error when running `npx bmad-method install`
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.11]
+
+**Release: November 18, 2025**
+
+### 🚀 Agent Installation Revolution
+
+- **bmad agent-install CLI**: Interactive agent installation with persona customization
+- **4 Reference Agents**: commit-poet, journal-keeper, security-engineer, trend-analyst
+- **Agent Compilation Engine**: YAML → XML with smart handler injection
+- **60 Communication Presets**: Pure communication styles for agent personas
+
+### 📚 BMB Agent Builder Enhancement
+
+- **Complete Documentation Suite**: 7 new guides for agent architecture and creation
+- **Expert Agent Sidecar Support**: Multi-file agents with templates and knowledge bases
+- **Unified Validation**: 160-line checklist shared across workflows
+- **BMM Agent Voices**: All 9 agents enhanced with distinct communication styles
+
+### 🎯 Workflow Architecture Change
+
+- **Epic Creation Moved**: Now in Phase 3 after Architecture for technical context
+- **Excalidraw Distribution**: Diagram capabilities moved to role-appropriate agents
+- **Google Antigravity IDE**: New installer with flattened file naming
+
+### ⚠️ Breaking Changes
+
+1. **Frame Expert Retired**: Use role-appropriate agents for diagrams
+2. **Agent Installation**: New bmad agent-install command replaces manual installation
+3. **Epic Creation Phase**: Moved from Phase 2 to Phase 3
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.10]
+
+**Release: November 16, 2025**
+
+- **Epics After Architecture**: Major milestone - technically-informed user stories created post-architecture
+- **Frame Expert Agent**: New Excalidraw specialist with 4 diagram workflows
+- **Time Estimate Prohibition**: Warnings across 33 workflows acknowledging AI's impact on development speed
+- **Platform-Specific Commands**: ide-only/web-only fields filter menu items by environment
+- **Agent Customization**: Enhanced memory/prompts merging via \*.customize.yaml files
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.9]
+
+**Release: November 12, 2025**
+
+- **Intelligent File Discovery**: discover_inputs with FULL_LOAD, SELECTIVE_LOAD, INDEX_GUIDED strategies
+- **3-Track System**: Simplified from 5 levels to 3 intuitive tracks
+- **Web Bundles Guide**: Comprehensive documentation with 60-80% cost savings strategies
+- **Unified Output Structure**: Eliminated .ephemeral/ folders - single configurable output folder
+- **BMGD Phase 4**: Added 10 game development workflows with BMM patterns
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.8]
+
+**Release: November 9, 2025**
+
+- **Configurable Installation**: Custom directories with .bmad hidden folder default
+- **Optimized Agent Loading**: CLI loads from installed files, eliminating duplication
+- **Party Mode Everywhere**: All web bundles include multi-agent collaboration
+- **Phase 4 Artifact Separation**: Stories, code reviews, sprint plans configurable outside docs
+- **Expanded Web Bundles**: All BMM, BMGD, CIS agents bundled with elicitation integration
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.7]
+
+**Release: November 7, 2025**
+
+- **Workflow Vendoring**: Web bundler performs automatic cross-module dependency vendoring
+- **BMGD Module Extraction**: Game development split into standalone 4-phase structure
+- **Enhanced Dependency Resolution**: Better handling of web_bundle: false workflows
+- **Advanced Elicitation Fix**: Added missing CSV files to workflow bundles
+- **Claude Code Fix**: Resolved README slash command installation regression
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.6]
+
+**Release: November 4, 2025**
+
+- **Critical Installer Fixes**: Fixed manifestPath error and option display issues
+- **Conditional Docs Installation**: Optional documentation to reduce production footprint
+- **Improved Installer UX**: Better formatting with descriptive labels and clearer feedback
+- **Issue Tracker Cleanup**: Closed 54 legacy v4 issues for focused v6 development
+- **Contributing Updates**: Removed references to non-existent branches
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.5]
+
+**Release: November 4, 2025**
+
+- **3-Track Scale System**: Simplified from 5 levels to 3 intuitive preference-driven tracks
+- **Elicitation Modernization**: Replaced legacy XML tags with explicit invoke-task pattern
+- **PM/UX Evolution**: Added November 2025 industry research on AI Agent PMs
+- **Brownfield Reality Check**: Rewrote Phase 0 with 4 real-world scenarios
+- **Documentation Accuracy**: All agent capabilities now match YAML source of truth
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.4]
+
+**Release: November 2, 2025**
+
+- **Documentation Hub**: Created 18 comprehensive guides (7000+ lines) with professional standards
+- **Paige Agent**: New technical documentation specialist across all BMM phases
+- **Quick Spec Flow**: Intelligent Level 0-1 planning with auto-stack detection
+- **Universal Shard-Doc**: Split large markdown documents with dual-strategy loading
+- **Intent-Driven Planning**: PRD and Product Brief transformed from template-filling to conversation
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.3]
+
+**Release: October 2025**
+
+- **Codex Installer**: Custom prompts in `.codex/prompts/` directory structure
+- **Bug Fixes**: Various installer and workflow improvements
+- **Documentation**: Initial documentation structure established
+
+## [6.0.0-alpha.0]
+
+**Release: September 28, 2025**
 
-**Note**: Version 5.0.0 was skipped due to NPX registry issues that corrupted the version. Development continues with v6.0.0-alpha.0.
+- **Lean Core**: Simple common tasks and agents (bmad-web-orchestrator, bmad-master)
+- **BMad Method (BMM)**: Complete scale-adaptive rewrite supporting projects from small enhancements to massive undertakings
+- **BoMB**: BMad Builder for creating and converting modules, workflows, and agents
+- **CIS**: Creative Intelligence Suite for ideation and creative workflows
+- **Game Development**: Full subclass of game-specific development patterns**Note**: Version 5.0.0 was skipped due to NPX registry issues that corrupted the version. Development continues with v6.0.0-alpha.0.
 
 ## [v4.43.0](https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/releases/tag/v4.43.0)