bmad-method-lifecycle

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

Technical documentation specialist and knowledge curator. Use when the user asks to talk to Paige or requests the tech writer.

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.

Generate sprint status tracking from epics. Use when the user says "run sprint planning" or "generate sprint plan"

Summarize sprint status and surface risks. Use when the user says "check sprint status" or "show sprint status"

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"

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]"

Manage significant changes during sprint execution. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change"

Post-epic review to extract lessons and assess success. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]"

Generate end to end automated tests for existing features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"

Conduct domain and industry research. Use when the user says wants to do domain research for a topic or industry

Conduct market research on competition and customers. Use when the user says they need market research

Conduct technical research on technologies and architecture. Use when the user says they would like to do or produce a technical research report

System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect.

Create or update product briefs through guided or autonomous discovery. Use when the user requests to create or update a Product Brief.

Document brownfield projects for AI context. Use when the user says "document this project" or "generate project docs"

Product manager for PRD creation and requirements discovery. Use when the user asks to talk to John or requests the product manager.

UX designer and UI specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sally or requests the UX designer.

Create a PRD from scratch. Use when the user says "lets create a product requirements document" or "I want to create a new PRD"

Edit an existing PRD. Use when the user says "edit this PRD".

Validate a PRD against standards. Use when the user says "validate this PRD" or "run PRD validation"

Plan UX patterns and design specifications. Use when the user says "lets create UX design" or "create UX specifications" or "help me plan the UX"

Create architecture solution design decisions for AI agent consistency. Use when the user says "lets create architecture" or "create technical architecture" or "create a solution design"

Validate PRD, UX, Architecture and Epics specs are complete. Use when the user says "check implementation readiness".

Break requirements into epics and user stories. Use when the user says "create the epics and stories list"

Create project-context.md with AI rules. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context"

Senior software engineer for story execution and code implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent.

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"