Claude Skills by salacoste

Deprecated: `bmad-build` is now the official implementation method. Only use this when explicitly invoked by name

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'

Research a topic to support a decision, three ways: draft a research prompt for the user to run in their own tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, …), turn a finished research report into a short summary with cited sources that other skills can use directly, or run the research here with parallel web searches. Built-in research types: market, domain, technical, competitive, user-voice, academic-lit; also supports choosing between candidates, and custom types via overrides. Use when the use...

Deprecated: forwards to bmad-build-auto. Do not use unless invoked by name

Deprecated: `bmad-build` is now the official implementation method. Only use this when explicitly invoked by name

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-project-context. Use when the user says "document this project" or "generate project docs"

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (domain type)

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (update intent)

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review

Run a skill's evals and report results. Use when the user wants to evaluate a skill, run evals, benchmark a skill, validate triggers, optimize a description, or grade skill outputs.

Test a half-formed idea in a questioning conversation, with different personas probing its weak points, until the user can act on it or drop it with confidence. Optionally writes a short brief for planning skills to build on. Use when the user says 'forge an idea', 'pressure-test this idea', 'stress-test my thinking', or 'harden this idea'

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-project-context. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context"

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

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (market type)

Plans, creates, and validates BMad modules. Use when the user requests to 'ideate module', 'plan a module', 'create module', 'build a module', or 'validate module'.

Sets up {module-name} module in a project. Use when the user requests to 'install {module-code} module', 'configure {module-name}', or 'setup {module-name}'.

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

Create, update, or validate a PRD. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a PRD

Test a product concept with Amazon's Working Backwards method: write the press release for the finished product first, then answer hard customer and stakeholder questions, ending in a complete PRFAQ document. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ', 'work backwards', or 'run the PRFAQ challenge'

Create, update, or validate a product brief. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a brief

Set up, adopt, refresh, or audit a repository''s agent instructions (the AGENTS.md block) so AI agents work well in that repo. Also records observed agent mistakes as pitfalls. Use when invoked by name

Generate automated API and end-to-end tests for implemented features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"

Deprecated: forwards to bmad-build. Do not use unless invoked by name

Review a completed epic against the evidence it left behind — spec, stories, diffs, commits, sprint status — and produce a retrospective with sourced findings, action items, and an acceptance decision. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]". Supports -H/--headless

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-review

Runs one or more installed review lenses — adversarial critique, edge cases, verification gaps, structure, prose — and reports triaged findings. Use when, and only when, the user asks you to review a diff, a pull request, or an artifact — code or documents, one or many — and actually says "review"; an explicit skill:bmad-review directive from another skill counts as that ask. A request to act on feedback from an earlier review is a change, not a review. Never invoke this uninvited, including ...

Condense any input — an idea, brief, PRD, transcript, or mixed notes — into a short spec: SPEC.md plus supporting files that downstream skills build from. Also updates and validates existing specs, and can break a spec into stories. Use when the user says "create a spec", "distill this into a spec", "validate this spec", "update the spec", or "break this into stories"

Check that planning is complete enough to implement, then generate the sprint status file from the epics. Can also summarize sprint progress and validate or repair the tracking file. Use when the user says "run sprint planning", "generate sprint plan", "check implementation readiness", "show sprint status", "validate sprint status", or "fix sprint status"

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-sprint-planning (status view)

Master Test Architect and Quality Advisor. Use when the user asks to talk to Murat or requests the Test Architect.

Teach testing progressively through structured sessions. Use when user says "lets learn testing" or "I want to study test practices"

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-deep-recon (technical type)

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"

Expand test automation coverage for codebase. Use when user says "lets expand test coverage" or "I want to automate tests"

Scaffold CI/CD quality pipeline with test execution. Use when the user says "lets setup CI pipeline" or "I want to create quality gates"

Initialize test framework with Playwright or Cypress. Use when the user says "lets setup test framework" or "I want to initialize testing framework"

Audit NFR evidence for performance, security, reliability, and maintainability. Use when implementation evidence exists and the user says "audit NFR evidence", "audit NFRs", or "evaluate non-functional requirements"

Create system-level or epic-level test plans. Use when the user says "lets design test plan" or "I want to create test strategy"

Review test quality using best practices validation. Use when user says "lets review tests" or "I want to evaluate test quality"

Generate traceability matrix and quality gate decision. Use when the user says "lets create traceability matrix" or "I want to analyze test coverage"

Capture the user''s UX vision in two documents: DESIGN.md for how the product looks and EXPERIENCE.md for how it behaves. Use when the user says "lets create UX design" or "create UX specifications" or "help me plan the UX"

Deprecated — forwards to bmad-prd (validate intent)

Walk the user through reviewing a change: what it is for, what to look at closely, and how to test it. Use when the user says "walkthrough", "walk me through this change", or "human review"

Builds, edits, and analyzes workflows and skills. Use when the user requests to "build a workflow", "modify a workflow", "quality check workflow", or "analyze skill".

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.

Strategic business analyst and requirements expert. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst.