
Adapt designs to work across different screen sizes, devices, contexts, or platforms. Implements breakpoints, fluid layouts, and touch targets. Use when the user mentions responsive design, mobile layouts, breakpoints, viewport adaptation, or cross-device compatibility.
Review a feature and enhance it with purposeful animations, micro-interactions, and motion effects that improve usability and delight. Use when the user mentions adding animation, transitions, micro-interactions, motion design, hover effects, or making the UI feel more alive.
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.
System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect.
Senior software engineer for story execution and code implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent.
Senior software engineer for story execution and code implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent.
Product manager for PRD creation and requirements discovery. Use when the user asks to talk to John or requests the product manager.
Product manager for PRD creation and requirements discovery. Use when the user asks to talk to John or requests the product manager.
Elite full-stack developer for rapid spec and implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Barry or requests the quick flow solo dev.
Scrum master for sprint planning and story preparation. Use when the user asks to talk to Bob or requests the scrum master.
Scrum master for sprint planning and story preparation. Use when the user asks to talk to Bob or requests the scrum master.
Facilitate interactive brainstorming sessions using diverse creative techniques and ideation methods. Use when the user says help me brainstorm or help me ideate.
Technical documentation specialist and knowledge curator. Use when the user asks to talk to Paige or requests the tech writer.
UX designer and UI specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sally or requests the UX designer.
UX designer and UI specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sally or requests the UX designer.
Validate PRD, UX, Architecture and Epics specs are complete. Use when the user says "check implementation readiness".
Validate PRD, UX, Architecture and Epics specs are complete. Use when the user says "check implementation readiness".
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"
Manage significant changes during sprint execution. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change"
Manage significant changes during sprint execution. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change"
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"
Break requirements into epics and user stories. Use when the user says "create the epics and stories list"
Break requirements into epics and user stories. Use when the user says "create the epics and stories list"
Create a PRD from scratch. Use when the user says "lets create a product requirements document" or "I want to create a new PRD"
Create a PRD from scratch. Use when the user says "lets create a product requirements document" or "I want to create a new PRD"
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]"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Conduct domain and industry research. Use when the user says wants to do domain research for a topic or industry
Document brownfield projects for AI context. Use when the user says "document this project" or "generate project docs"
Document brownfield projects for AI context. Use when the user says "document this project" or "generate project docs"
Clinical copy-editor that reviews text for communication issues. Use when user says review for prose or improve the prose
Edit an existing PRD. Use when the user says "edit this PRD".
Create project-context.md with AI rules. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context"
Create project-context.md with AI rules. Use when the user says "generate project context" or "create project context"
Generates or updates an index.md to reference all docs in the folder. Use if user requests to create or update an index of all files in a specific folder
Conduct market research on competition and customers. Use when the user says they need market research
Conduct market research on competition and customers. Use when the user says they need market research
Orchestrates group discussions between all installed BMAD agents, enabling natural multi-agent conversations. Use when user requests party mode.
Create or update product briefs through guided or autonomous discovery. Use when the user requests to create or update a Product Brief.
Generate end to end automated tests for existing features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"
Post-epic review to extract lessons and assess success. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]"
Walk every branching path and boundary condition in content, report only unhandled edge cases. Orthogonal to adversarial review - method-driven not attitude-driven. Use when you need exhaustive edge-case analysis of code, specs, or diffs.
Splits large markdown documents into smaller, organized files based on level 2 (default) sections. Use if the user says perform shard document
Conduct technical research on technologies and architecture. Use when the user says they would like to do or produce a technical research report
Validate a PRD against standards. Use when the user says "validate this PRD" or "run PRD validation"
Evaluate design from a UX perspective, assessing visual hierarchy, information architecture, emotional resonance, cognitive load, and overall quality with quantitative scoring, persona-based testing, automated anti-pattern detection, and actionable feedback. Use when the user asks to review, critique, evaluate, or give feedback on a design or component.
Add moments of joy, personality, and unexpected touches that make interfaces memorable and enjoyable to use. Elevates functional to delightful. Use when the user asks to add polish, personality, animations, micro-interactions, delight, or make an interface feel fun or memorable.
Extract and consolidate reusable components, design tokens, and patterns into your design system. Identifies opportunities for systematic reuse and enriches your component library. Use when the user asks to create components, refactor repeated UI patterns, build a design system, or extract tokens.
Audits and realigns UI to match design system standards, spacing, tokens, and patterns. Use when the user mentions consistency, design drift, mismatched styles, tokens, or wants to bring a feature back in line with the system.
Designs and improves onboarding flows, empty states, and first-run experiences to help users reach value quickly. Use when the user mentions onboarding, first-time users, empty states, activation, getting started, or new user flows.
Diagnoses and fixes UI performance across loading speed, rendering, animations, images, and bundle size. Use when the user mentions slow, laggy, janky, performance, bundle size, load time, or wants a faster, smoother experience.
Plan the UX and UI for a feature before writing code. Runs a structured discovery interview, then produces a design brief that guides implementation. Use during the planning phase to establish design direction, constraints, and strategy before any code is written.
Improve unclear UX copy, error messages, microcopy, labels, and instructions to make interfaces easier to understand. Use when the user mentions confusing text, unclear labels, bad error messages, hard-to-follow instructions, or wanting better UX writing.
Run technical quality checks across accessibility, performance, theming, responsive design, and anti-patterns. Generates a scored report with P0-P3 severity ratings and actionable plan. Use when the user wants an accessibility check, performance audit, or technical quality review.
Improve interface resilience through better error handling, i18n support, text overflow handling, and edge case management. Makes interfaces robust and production-ready. Use when the user asks to harden, make production-ready, handle edge cases, add error states, or fix overflow and i18n issues.
Performs a final quality pass fixing alignment, spacing, consistency, and micro-detail issues before shipping. Use when the user mentions polish, finishing touches, pre-launch review, something looks off, or wants to go from good to great.
Strategic business analyst and requirements expert. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst.
Improves typography by fixing font choices, hierarchy, sizing, weight, and readability so text feels intentional. Use when the user mentions fonts, type, readability, text hierarchy, sizing looks off, or wants more polished, intentional typography.
QA engineer for test automation and coverage. Use when the user asks to talk to Quinn or requests the QA engineer.
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]"
Edit an existing PRD. Use when the user says "edit this PRD".
Strategic business analyst and requirements expert. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst.
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"
QA engineer for test automation and coverage. Use when the user asks to talk to Quinn or requests the QA engineer.
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.
Amplify safe or boring designs to make them more visually interesting and stimulating. Increases impact while maintaining usability. Use when the user says the design looks bland, generic, too safe, lacks personality, or wants more visual impact and character.
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]"
System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect.
Generate sprint status tracking from epics. Use when the user says "run sprint planning" or "generate sprint plan"
Perform a Cynical Review and produce a findings report. Use when the user requests a critical review of something
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.
Create or update product briefs through guided or autonomous discovery. Use when the user requests to create or update a Product Brief.
Initialize BMad project configuration and load config variables. Use when any skill needs module-specific configuration values, or when setting up a new BMad project.
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.
Structural editor that proposes cuts, reorganization, and simplification while preserving comprehension. Use when user requests structural review or editorial review of structure
Lossless LLM-optimized compression of source documents. Use when the user requests to 'distill documents' or 'create a distillate'.
Technical documentation specialist and knowledge curator. Use when the user asks to talk to Paige or requests the tech writer.
Elite full-stack developer for rapid spec and implementation. Use when the user asks to talk to Barry or requests the quick flow solo dev.
Tones down visually aggressive or overstimulating designs, reducing intensity while preserving quality. Use when the user mentions too bold, too loud, overwhelming, aggressive, garish, or wants a calmer, more refined aesthetic.
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics. Use when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications, or when any design skill requires project context. Call with 'craft' to run the full shape-then-build flow, or 'teach' for design context setup.
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"
Improve layout, spacing, and visual rhythm. Fixes monotonous grids, inconsistent spacing, and weak visual hierarchy. Use when the user mentions layout feeling off, spacing issues, visual hierarchy, crowded UI, alignment problems, or wanting better composition.
Add strategic color to features that are too monochromatic or lack visual interest, making interfaces more engaging and expressive. Use when the user mentions the design looking gray, dull, lacking warmth, needing more color, or wanting a more vibrant or expressive palette.
Strip designs to their essence by removing unnecessary complexity. Great design is simple, powerful, and clean. Use when the user asks to simplify, declutter, reduce noise, remove elements, or make a UI cleaner and more focused.
Pushes interfaces past conventional limits with technically ambitious implementations — shaders, spring physics, scroll-driven reveals, 60fps animations. Use when the user wants to wow, impress, go all-out, or make something that feels extraordinary.
Conduct domain and industry research. Use when the user says wants to do domain research for a topic or industry