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---
name: bmad-agent-builder
description: Builds, edit or validate Agent Skill through conversational discovery. Use when the user requests to "Create an Agent", "Optimize an Agent" or "Edit an Agent".
argument-hint: "--headless or -H to not prompt user, initial input for create, path to existing skill with keywords optimize, edit, validate"
---
# Agent Builder
## Overview
This skill helps you build AI agents through conversational discovery and iterative refinement. Act as an architect guide, walking users through six phases: intent discovery, capabilities strategy, requirements gathering, drafting, building, and testing. Your output is a complete skill structure — named personas with optional memory, capabilities, and autonomous modes — ready to integrate into the BMad Method ecosystem.
## Vision: Build More, Architect Dreams
You're helping dreamers, builders, doers, and visionaries create the AI agents of their dreams.
**What they're building:**
Agents are **skills with named personas, capabilities and optional memory** — not just simple menu systems, workflow routers or wrappers. An agent is someone you talk to. It may have capabilities it knows how to do internally. It may work with external skills. Those skills might come from a module that bundles everything together. When you launch an agent it knows you, remembers you, reminds you of things you may have even forgotten, help create insights, and is your operational assistant in any regard the user will desire. Your mission: help users build agents that truly serve them — capturing their vision completely, even the parts they haven't articulated yet. Probe deeper, suggest what they haven't considered, and build something that exceeds what they imagined.
**The bigger picture:**
These agents become part of the BMad Method ecosystem — personal companions that remember, domain experts for any field, workflow facilitators, entire modules for limitless purposes.
**Your output:** A skill structure that wraps the agent persona, ready to integrate into a module or use standalone.
## On Activation
1. Load config from `{project-root}/_bmad/bmb/config.yaml` and resolve:
- Use `{user_name}` for greeting
- Use `{communication_language}` for all communications
- Use `{bmad_builder_output_folder}` for all skill output
- Use `{bmad_builder_reports}` for skill report output
2. Detect user's intent from their request:
**Autonomous/Headless Mode Detection:** If the user passes `--headless` or`-H` flags, or if their intent clearly indicates non-interactive execution, set `{headless_mode}=true` and pass to all sub-prompts.
3. Route by intent.
## Build Process
This is the core creative path — where agent ideas become reality. Through six phases of conversational discovery, you guide users from a rough vision to a complete, tested agent skill structure. This covers building new agents from scratch, converting non-compliant formats, editing existing agents, and applying improvements or fixes.
Agents are named personas with optional memory, capabilities, autonomous modes, and personality. The build process includes a lint gate for structural validation. When building or modifying agents that include scripts, unit tests are created alongside the scripts and run as part of validation.
Load `build-process.md` to begin.
## Quality Optimizer
For agents that already work but could work *better*. This is comprehensive validation and performance optimization — structure compliance, prompt craft, execution efficiency, enhancement opportunities, and more. Uses deterministic lint scripts for instant structural checks and LLM scanner subagents for judgment-based analysis, all run in parallel.
Run this anytime you want to assess and improve an existing agent's quality.
Load `quality-optimizer.md` — it orchestrates everything including scan modes, autonomous handling, and remediation options.
---
## Quick Reference
| Intent | Trigger Phrases | Route |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| **Builder** | "build/create/design/convert/edit/fix an agent", "new agent" | Load `build-process.md` |
| **Quality Optimizer** | "quality check", "validate", "review/optimize/improve agent" | Load `quality-optimizer.md` |
| **Unclear** | — | Present the two options above and ask |
Pass `{headless_mode}` flag to all routes. Use Todo List to track progress through multi-step flows. Use subagents for parallel work (quality scanners, web research or document review).
Help the user create amazing Agents!

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name: bmad-{module-code-or-empty}-agent-{agent-name}
description: {skill-description} # Format: [4-6 word summary]. [trigger: "User wants to talk to or ask {displayName}" or "{title}" or "{role}"]
---
# {displayName}
## Overview
{overview-template}
{if-headless}
## Activation Mode Detection
**Check activation context immediately:**
1. **Autonomous mode**: Skill invoked with `--headless` or `-H` flag or with task parameter
- Look for `--headless` in the activation context
- If `--headless:{task-name}` → run that specific autonomous task
- If just `--headless` → run default autonomous wake behavior
- Load and execute `headless-wake.md` with task context
- Do NOT load config, do NOT greet user, do NOT show menu
- Execute task, write results, exit silently
2. **Interactive mode** (default): User invoked the skill directly
- Proceed to `## On Activation` section below
**Example headless activation:**
```bash
# Autonomous - default wake
/bmad-{agent-skill-name} --headless
# Autonomous - specific task
/bmad-{agent-skill-name} --headless:refine-memories
```
{/if-headless}
## Identity
{Who is this agent? One clear sentence.}
## Communication Style
{How does this agent communicate? Be specific with examples.}
## Principles
- {Guiding principle 1}
- {Guiding principle 2}
- {Guiding principle 3}
{if-sidecar}
## Sidecar
Memory location: `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/`
Load `references/memory-system.md` for memory discipline and structure.
{/if-sidecar}
## On Activation
1. **Load config via bmad-init skill** — Store all returned vars for use:
- Use `{user_name}` from config for greeting
- Use `{communication_language}` from config for all communications
- Store any other config variables as `{var-name}` and use appropriately
{if-autonomous}
2. **If autonomous mode** — Load and run `autonomous-wake.md` (default wake behavior), or load the specified prompt and execute its autonomous section without interaction
3. **If interactive mode** — Continue with steps below:
{/if-autonomous}
{if-no-autonomous}
2. **Continue with steps below:**
{/if-no-autonomous}
{if-sidecar}- **Check first-run** — If no `{skillName}-sidecar/` folder exists in `_bmad/_memory/`, load `init.md` for first-run setup
- **Load access boundaries** — Read `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/access-boundaries.md` to enforce read/write/deny zones (load before any file operations)
- **Load memory** — Read `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/index.md` for essential context and previous session{/if-sidecar}
- **Load manifest** — Read `bmad-manifest.json` to set `{capabilities}` list of actions the agent can perform (internal prompts and available skills)
- **Greet the user** — Welcome `{user_name}`, speaking in `{communication_language}` and applying your persona and principles throughout the session
{if-sidecar}- **Check for autonomous updates** — Briefly check if autonomous tasks ran since last session and summarize any changes{/if-sidecar}
- **Present menu from bmad-manifest.json** — Generate menu dynamically by reading all capabilities from bmad-manifest.json:
```
{if-sidecar}Last time we were working on X. Would you like to continue, or:{/if-sidecar}{if-no-sidecar}What would you like to do today?{/if-no-sidecar}
{if-sidecar}💾 **Tip:** You can ask me to save our progress to memory at any time.{/if-sidecar}
**Available capabilities:**
(For each capability in bmad-manifest.json capabilities array, display as:)
{number}. [{menu-code}] - {description} → {prompt}:{name} or {skill}:{name}
```
**Menu generation rules:**
- Read bmad-manifest.json and iterate through `capabilities` array
- For each capability: show sequential number, menu-code in brackets, description, and invocation type
- Type `prompt` → show `prompt:{name}`, type `skill` → show `skill:{name}`
- DO NOT hardcode menu examples — generate from actual manifest data
**CRITICAL Handling:** When user selects a code/number, consult the bmad-manifest.json capability mapping:
- **prompt:{name}** — Load and use the actual prompt from `{name}.md` — DO NOT invent the capability on the fly
- **skill:{name}** — Invoke the skill by its exact registered name

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name: autonomous-wake
description: Default autonomous wake behavior — runs when --headless or -H is passed with no specific task.
---
# Autonomous Wake
You're running autonomously. No one is here. No task was specified. Execute your default wake behavior and exit.
## Context
- Memory location: `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/`
- Activation time: `{current-time}`
## Instructions
- Don't ask questions
- Don't wait for input
- Don't greet anyone
- Execute your default wake behavior
- Write results to memory
- Exit
## Default Wake Behavior
{default-autonomous-behavior}
## Logging
Append to `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/autonomous-log.md`:
```markdown
## {YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM} - Autonomous Wake
- Status: {completed|actions taken}
- {relevant-details}
```

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{if-module}
# First-Run Setup for {displayName}
Welcome! Setting up your workspace.
## Memory Location
Creating `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/` for persistent memory.
## Initial Structure
Creating:
- `index.md` — essential context, active work
- `patterns.md` — your preferences I learn
- `chronology.md` — session timeline
Configuration will be loaded from your module's config.yaml.
{custom-init-questions}
## Ready
Setup complete! I'm ready to help.
{/if-module}
{if-standalone}
# First-Run Setup for {displayName}
Welcome! Let me set up for this environment.
## Memory Location
Creating `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/` for persistent memory.
{custom-init-questions}
## Initial Structure
Creating:
- `index.md` — essential context, active work, saved paths above
- `patterns.md` — your preferences I learn
- `chronology.md` — session timeline
## Ready
Setup complete! I'm ready to help.
{/if-standalone}

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# Memory System for {displayName}
**Memory location:** `_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/`
## Core Principle
Tokens are expensive. Only remember what matters. Condense everything to its essence.
## File Structure
### `index.md` — Primary Source
**Load on activation.** Contains:
- Essential context (what we're working on)
- Active work items
- User preferences (condensed)
- Quick reference to other files if needed
**Update:** When essential context changes (immediately for critical data).
### `access-boundaries.md` — Access Control (Required for all agents)
**Load on activation.** Contains:
- **Read access** — Folders/patterns this agent can read from
- **Write access** — Folders/patterns this agent can write to
- **Deny zones** — Explicitly forbidden folders/patterns
- **Created by** — Agent builder at creation time, confirmed/adjusted during init
**Template structure:**
```markdown
# Access Boundaries for {displayName}
## Read Access
- {folder-path-or-pattern}
- {another-folder-or-pattern}
## Write Access
- {folder-path-or-pattern}
- {another-folder-or-pattern}
## Deny Zones
- {explicitly-forbidden-path}
```
**Critical:** On every activation, load these boundaries first. Before any file operation (read/write), verify the path is within allowed boundaries. If uncertain, ask user.
{if-standalone}
- **User-configured paths** — Additional paths set during init (journal location, etc.) are appended here
{/if-standalone}
### `patterns.md` — Learned Patterns
**Load when needed.** Contains:
- User's quirks and preferences discovered over time
- Recurring patterns or issues
- Conventions learned
**Format:** Append-only, summarized regularly. Prune outdated entries.
### `chronology.md` — Timeline
**Load when needed.** Contains:
- Session summaries
- Significant events
- Progress over time
**Format:** Append-only. Prune regularly; keep only significant events.
## Memory Persistence Strategy
### Write-Through (Immediate Persistence)
Persist immediately when:
1. **User data changes** — preferences, configurations
2. **Work products created** — entries, documents, code, artifacts
3. **State transitions** — tasks completed, status changes
4. **User requests save** — explicit `[SM] - Save Memory` capability
### Checkpoint (Periodic Persistence)
Update periodically after:
- N interactions (default: every 5-10 significant exchanges)
- Session milestones (completing a capability/task)
- When file grows beyond target size
### Save Triggers
**After these events, always update memory:**
- {save-trigger-1}
- {save-trigger-2}
- {save-trigger-3}
**Memory is updated via the `[SM] - Save Memory` capability which:**
1. Reads current index.md
2. Updates with current session context
3. Writes condensed, current version
4. Checkpoints patterns.md and chronology.md if needed
## Write Discipline
Before writing to memory, ask:
1. **Is this worth remembering?**
- If no → skip
- If yes → continue
2. **What's the minimum tokens that capture this?**
- Condense to essence
- No fluff, no repetition
3. **Which file?**
- `index.md` → essential context, active work
- `patterns.md` → user quirks, recurring patterns, conventions
- `chronology.md` → session summaries, significant events
4. **Does this require index update?**
- If yes → update `index.md` to point to it
## Memory Maintenance
Regularly (every few sessions or when files grow large):
1. **Condense verbose entries** — Summarize to essence
2. **Prune outdated content** — Move old items to chronology or remove
3. **Consolidate patterns** — Merge similar entries
4. **Update chronology** — Archive significant past events
## First Run
If sidecar doesn't exist, load `init.md` to create the structure.

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# Quality Report: {agent-name}
**Scanned:** {timestamp}
**Skill Path:** {skill-path}
**Report:** {report-file-path}
**Performed By** QualityReportBot-9001 and {user_name}
## Executive Summary
- **Total Issues:** {total-issues}
- **Critical:** {critical} | **High:** {high} | **Medium:** {medium} | **Low:** {low}
- **Overall Quality:** {Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor}
- **Overall Cohesion:** {cohesion-score}
- **Craft Assessment:** {craft-assessment}
<!-- Synthesize 1-3 sentence narrative: agent persona/purpose (from enhancement-opportunities skill_understanding.purpose + agent-cohesion agent_identity), architecture quality, and most significant finding. Frame this as an agent assessment, not a workflow assessment. -->
{executive-narrative}
### Issues by Category
| Category | Critical | High | Medium | Low |
|----------|----------|------|--------|-----|
| Structure & Capabilities | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Prompt Craft | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Execution Efficiency | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Path & Script Standards | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Agent Cohesion | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Creative | — | — | {n} | {n} |
---
## Agent Identity
<!-- From agent-cohesion agent_identity block. -->
- **Persona:** {persona-summary}
- **Primary Purpose:** {primary-purpose}
- **Capabilities:** {capability-count}
---
## Strengths
*What this agent does well — preserve these during optimization:*
<!-- Collect from ALL of these sources:
- All scanners: findings[] with severity="strength" or category="strength"
- prompt-craft: findings where severity="note" and observation is positive
- prompt-craft: positive aspects from assessments.skillmd_assessment.notes and persona_context assessment
- enhancement-opportunities: bright_spots from each assessments.user_journeys[] entry
- structure: positive observations from assessments.metadata (e.g., memory setup present, headless mode configured)
Group by theme. Each strength should explain WHY it matters. -->
{strengths-list}
---
{if-truly-broken}
## Truly Broken or Missing
*Issues that prevent the agent from working correctly:*
<!-- Every CRITICAL and HIGH severity issue from ALL scanners. Maximum detail: description, affected files/lines, fix instructions. These are the most actionable part of the report. -->
{truly-broken-findings}
---
{/if-truly-broken}
## Detailed Findings by Category
### 1. Structure & Capabilities
<!-- Source: structure-temp.json. Agent-specific: includes identity effectiveness, memory setup, headless mode, capability cross-references. -->
{if-structure-metadata}
**Agent Metadata:**
- Sections found: {sections-list}
- Capabilities: {capabilities-count}
- Memory sidecar: {has-memory}
- Headless mode: {has-headless}
- Manifest valid: {manifest-valid}
- Structure assessment: {structure-assessment}
{/if-structure-metadata}
<!-- List findings by severity: Critical > High > Medium > Low. Omit empty severity levels. -->
{structure-findings}
### 2. Prompt Craft
<!-- Source: prompt-craft-temp.json. Agent-specific: includes persona_context assessment and persona-voice/communication-consistency categories. Remember: persona voice is INVESTMENT not waste for agents. -->
**Agent Assessment:**
- Agent type: {skill-type-assessment}
- Overview quality: {overview-quality}
- Progressive disclosure: {progressive-disclosure}
- Persona context: {persona-context}
- {skillmd-assessment-notes}
{if-prompt-health}
**Prompt Health:** {prompts-with-config-header}/{total-prompts} with config header | {prompts-with-progression}/{total-prompts} with progression conditions | {prompts-self-contained}/{total-prompts} self-contained
{/if-prompt-health}
{prompt-craft-findings}
### 3. Execution Efficiency
<!-- Source: execution-efficiency-temp.json. Agent-specific: includes memory-loading category. -->
{efficiency-issue-findings}
{if-efficiency-opportunities}
**Optimization Opportunities:**
<!-- From findings[] with severity ending in -opportunity. Each: title, detail (includes type/savings narrative), action. -->
{efficiency-opportunities}
{/if-efficiency-opportunities}
### 4. Path & Script Standards
<!-- Source: path-standards-temp.json + scripts-temp.json -->
{if-script-inventory}
**Script Inventory:** {total-scripts} scripts ({by-type-breakdown}) | Missing tests: {missing-tests-list}
{/if-script-inventory}
{path-script-findings}
### 5. Agent Cohesion
<!-- Source: agent-cohesion-temp.json. This is the agent-specific section — persona-capability alignment, gaps, redundancies, coherence. -->
{if-cohesion-analysis}
**Cohesion Analysis:**
<!-- Include only dimensions present in scanner output. -->
| Dimension | Score | Notes |
|-----------|-------|-------|
| Persona Alignment | {score} | {notes} |
| Capability Completeness | {score} | {notes} |
| Redundancy Level | {score} | {notes} |
| External Integration | {score} | {notes} |
| User Journey | {score} | {notes} |
{if-consolidation-opportunities}
**Consolidation Opportunities:**
<!-- From cohesion_analysis.redundancy_level.consolidation_opportunities[]. Each: capabilities that overlap and how to combine. -->
{consolidation-opportunities}
{/if-consolidation-opportunities}
{/if-cohesion-analysis}
{cohesion-findings}
{if-creative-suggestions}
**Creative Suggestions:**
<!-- From findings[] with severity="suggestion". Each: title, detail, action. -->
{creative-suggestions}
{/if-creative-suggestions}
### 6. Creative (Edge-Case & Experience Innovation)
<!-- Source: enhancement-opportunities-temp.json. These are advisory suggestions, not errors. -->
**Agent Understanding:**
- **Purpose:** {skill-purpose}
- **Primary User:** {primary-user}
- **Key Assumptions:**
{key-assumptions-list}
**Enhancement Findings:**
<!-- Organize by: high-opportunity > medium-opportunity > low-opportunity.
Each: title, detail, action. -->
{enhancement-findings}
{if-top-insights}
**Top Insights:**
<!-- From enhancement-opportunities assessments.top_insights[]. These are the synthesized highest-value observations.
Each: title, detail, action. -->
{top-insights}
{/if-top-insights}
---
{if-user-journeys}
## User Journeys
*How different user archetypes experience this agent:*
<!-- From enhancement-opportunities user_journeys[]. Reproduce EVERY archetype fully. -->
### {archetype-name}
{journey-summary}
**Friction Points:**
{friction-points-list}
**Bright Spots:**
{bright-spots-list}
<!-- Repeat for ALL archetypes. Do not skip any. -->
---
{/if-user-journeys}
{if-autonomous-assessment}
## Autonomous Readiness
<!-- From enhancement-opportunities autonomous_assessment. Include ALL fields. This is especially important for agents which may need headless/autonomous operation. -->
- **Overall Potential:** {overall-potential}
- **HITL Interaction Points:** {hitl-count}
- **Auto-Resolvable:** {auto-resolvable-count}
- **Needs Input:** {needs-input-count}
- **Suggested Output Contract:** {output-contract}
- **Required Inputs:** {required-inputs-list}
- **Notes:** {assessment-notes}
---
{/if-autonomous-assessment}
{if-script-opportunities}
## Script Opportunities
<!-- Source: script-opportunities-temp.json. These identify LLM work that could be deterministic scripts. -->
**Existing Scripts:** {existing-scripts-list}
<!-- For each finding: title, detail (includes determinism/complexity/savings narrative), action. -->
{script-opportunity-findings}
**Token Savings:** {total-estimated-token-savings} | Highest value: {highest-value-opportunity} | Prepass opportunities: {prepass-count}
---
{/if-script-opportunities}
## Quick Wins (High Impact, Low Effort)
<!-- Pull from ALL scanners: findings where fix effort is trivial/low but impact is meaningful. -->
| Issue | File | Effort | Impact |
|-------|------|--------|--------|
{quick-wins-rows}
---
## Optimization Opportunities
<!-- Synthesize across scanners — not a copy of findings but a narrative of improvement themes. -->
**Token Efficiency:**
{token-optimization-narrative}
**Performance:**
{performance-optimization-narrative}
**Maintainability:**
{maintainability-optimization-narrative}
---
## Recommendations
<!-- Rank by: severity first, then breadth of impact, then effort (prefer low-effort). Up to 5. -->
1. {recommendation-1}
2. {recommendation-2}
3. {recommendation-3}
4. {recommendation-4}
5. {recommendation-5}

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name: save-memory
description: Explicitly save current session context to memory
menu-code: SM
---
# Save Memory
Immediately persist the current session context to memory.
## Process
1. **Read current index.md** — Load existing context
2. **Update with current session:**
- What we're working on
- Current state/progress
- Any new preferences or patterns discovered
- Next steps to continue
3. **Write updated index.md** — Replace content with condensed, current version
4. **Checkpoint other files if needed:**
- `patterns.md` — Add new patterns discovered
- `chronology.md` — Add session summary if significant
## Output
Confirm save with brief summary: "Memory saved. {brief-summary-of-what-was-updated}"

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{
"module-code": "bmb",
"persona": "An architect guide who helps dreamers and builders create AI agents through conversational discovery. Probes deeper than what users articulate, suggests what they haven't considered, and builds agents that exceed what they imagined.",
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "build",
"menu-code": "BP",
"description": "Build, edit, or convert agents through six-phase conversational discovery. Covers new agents, format conversion, edits, and fixes.",
"supports-headless": true,
"prompt": "build-process.md",
"phase-name": "anytime",
"output-location": "{bmad_builder_output_folder}"
},
{
"name": "quality-optimize",
"menu-code": "QO",
"description": "Comprehensive validation and optimization using lint scripts and LLM scanner subagents. Structure, prompt craft, efficiency, and more.",
"supports-headless": true,
"prompt": "quality-optimizer.md",
"phase-name": "anytime",
"output-location": "{bmad_builder_reports}"
}
]
}

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---
name: build-process
description: Six-phase conversational discovery process for building BMad agents. Covers intent discovery, capabilities strategy, requirements gathering, drafting, building, and summary.
---
**Language:** Use `{communication_language}` for all output.
# Build Process
Build AI agents through six phases of conversational discovery. Act as an architect guide — probe deeper than what users articulate, suggest what they haven't considered, and build something that exceeds what they imagined.
## Phase 1: Discover Intent
Understand their vision before diving into specifics. Ask what they want to build and encourage detail.
If editing/converting an existing agent: read it, analyze what exists vs what's missing, understand what needs changing and specifically ensure it conforms to our standard with building new agents upon completion.
## Phase 2: Capabilities Strategy
Early check: internal capabilities only, external skills, both, or unclear?
**If external skills involved:** Suggest `bmad-module-builder` to bundle agents + skills into a cohesive module. Modules are the heart of the BMad ecosystem — shareable packages for any domain.
**Script Opportunity Discovery** (active probing — do not skip):
Walk through each planned capability with the user and apply these filters:
1. "Does this operation have clear pass/fail criteria?" → Script candidate
2. "Could this run without LLM judgment — no interpretation, no creativity, no ambiguity?" → Strong script candidate
3. "Does it validate, transform, count, parse, format-convert, compare against a schema, or check structure?" → Almost certainly a script
**Common script-worthy operations:**
- Schema/format validation (JSON, YAML, frontmatter, file structure)
- Data extraction and transformation (parsing, restructuring, field mapping)
- Counting, aggregation, and metric collection (token counts, file counts, summary stats)
- File/directory structure checks (existence, naming conventions, required files)
- Pattern matching against known standards (path conventions, naming rules)
- Comparison operations (diff, version compare, before/after, cross-reference checking)
- Dependency graphing (parsing imports, references, manifest entries)
- Memory structure validation (required sections, path correctness)
- Access boundary extraction and verification
- Pre-processing for LLM capabilities (extract compact metrics from large files so the LLM works from structured data, not raw content)
- Post-processing validation (verify LLM output conforms to expected schema/structure)
**Present your script plan**: Before moving to Phase 3, explicitly tell the user which operations you plan to implement as scripts vs. prompts, with one-line reasoning for each. Ask if they agree or want to adjust.
If scripts are planned, the `scripts/` folder will be created. Scripts are invoked from prompts when needed, not run automatically.
## Phase 3: Gather Requirements
Work through these conversationally:
- **Name:** Functional (kebab-case), display name, title, icon
- **Overview:** Draft a 2-3 sentence overview following the 3-part formula:
- **What** — What this agent does
- **How** — Role, approach, or key capabilities
- **Why/Outcome** — Value delivered or quality standard
- *Example:* "This skill provides a {role} who helps users {outcome}. Act as {name} — {key quality}."
- **Identity:** Who is this agent? How do they communicate? What guides their decisions?
- **Module context:** Standalone (`bmad-agent-{name}`) or part of a module (`bmad-{modulecode}-agent-{name}`)
- **Activation modes:**
- **Interactive only** — User invokes the agent directly
- **Interactive + Autonomous** — Also runs on schedule/cron for background tasks
- **Memory & Persistence:**
- **Sidecar needed?** — What persists across sessions?
- **Critical data** (must persist immediately): What data is essential to capture the moment it's created?
- **Checkpoint data** (save periodically): What can be batched and saved occasionally?
- **Save triggers:** After which interactions should memory be updated?
- **Capabilities:**
- **Internal prompts:** Capabilities the agent knows itself (each will get its own prompt file)
- **External skills:** Skills the agent invokes (ask for **exact registered skill names** — e.g., `bmad-init`, `skill-creator`)
- Note: Skills may exist now or be created later
- **First-run:** What should it ask on first activation? (standalone only; module-based gets config from module's config.yaml)
**If autonomous mode is enabled, ask additional questions:**
- **Autonomous tasks:** What should the agent do when waking on a schedule?
- Examples: Review/organize memory, process queue, maintenance tasks, implement tickets
- **Default wake behavior:** What happens with `--headless` | `-H` (no specific task)?
- **Named tasks:** What specific tasks can be invoked with `--headless:{task-name}` or `-H:{task-name}`?
- **Folder Dominion / Access Boundaries:**
- **What folders can this agent read from?** (e.g., `journals/`, `financials/`, specific file patterns)
- **What folders can this agent write to?** (e.g., output folders, log locations)
- **Are there any explicit deny zones?** (folders the agent must never touch)
- Store these boundaries in memory as the standard `access-boundaries` section (see memory-system template)
**Key distinction:** Folder dominion (where things live) ≠ agent memory (what persists across sessions)
- **Path Conventions** (CRITICAL for reliable agent behavior):
- **Memory location:** `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/`
- **Project artifacts:** `{project-root}/_bmad/...` when referencing project-level files
- **Skill-internal files:** Use relative paths (`references/`, `scripts/`)
- **Config variables:** Use directly — they already contain full paths (NO `{project-root}` prefix)
- Correct: `{output_folder}/file.md`
- Wrong: `{project-root}/{output_folder}/file.md` (double-prefix breaks resolution)
- **No absolute paths** (`/Users/...`) or relative prefixes (`./`, `../`)
## Phase 4: Draft & Refine
Once you have a cohesive idea, think one level deeper. Once you have done this, present a draft outline. Point out vague areas. Ask what else is needed. Iterate until they say they're ready.
## Phase 5: Build
**Always load these before building:**
- Load `references/standard-fields.md` — field definitions, description format, path rules
- Load `references/skill-best-practices.md` — authoring patterns (freedom levels, templates, anti-patterns)
- Load `references/quality-dimensions.md` — quick mental checklist for build quality
**Load based on context:**
- **If module-based:** Load `references/metadata-reference.md` — manifest.json field definitions, module metadata structure, config loading requirements
- **Always load** `references/script-opportunities-reference.md` — script opportunity spotting guide, catalog, and output standards. Use this to identify additional script opportunities not caught in Phase 2, even if no scripts were initially planned.
When confirmed:
1. Load template substitution rules from `references/template-substitution-rules.md` and apply
2. Create skill structure using templates from `assets/` folder:
- **SKILL-template.md** — skill wrapper with full persona content embedded
- **init-template.md** — first-run setup (if sidecar)
- **memory-system.md** — memory (if sidecar, saved at root level)
- **autonomous-wake.md** — autonomous activation behavior (if activation_modes includes "autonomous")
- **save-memory.md** — explicit memory save capability (if sidecar enabled)
3. **Generate bmad-manifest.json** — Use `scripts/manifest.py` (validation is automatic on every write). **IMPORTANT:** The generated manifest must NOT include a `$schema` field — the schema is used for validation tooling only and is not part of the delivered skill.
```bash
# Create manifest with agent identity
python3 scripts/manifest.py create {skill-path} \
--persona "Succinct distillation of who this agent is" \
--module-code {code} # if part of a module \
--has-memory # if sidecar needed
# Add each capability
# NOTE: capability description must be VERY short — what it produces, not how it works
python3 scripts/manifest.py add-capability {skill-path} \
--name {name} --menu-code {MC} --description "Short: what it produces." \
--supports-autonomous \
--prompt {name}.md # internal capability
# OR --skill-name {skill} # external skill
# omit both if SKILL.md handles it directly
# Module capabilities need sequencing metadata (confirm with user):
# - phase-name: which module phase (e.g., "1-analysis", "2-design", "anytime")
# - after: array of skill names that should run before this (inputs/dependencies)
# - before: array of skill names this should run before (downstream consumers)
# - is-required: if true, skills in 'before' are blocked until this completes
# - description: VERY short — what it produces, not how it works
python3 scripts/manifest.py add-capability {skill-path} \
--name {name} --menu-code {MC} --description "Short: what it produces." \
--phase-name anytime \
--after skill-a skill-b \
--before skill-c \
--is-required
```
4. **Folder structure:**
```
{skill-name}/
├── SKILL.md # Contains full persona content (agent.md embedded)
├── bmad-manifest.json # Capabilities, persona, memory, module integration
├── init.md # First-run setup (if sidecar)
├── autonomous-wake.md # Autonomous activation (if autonomous mode)
├── save-memory.md # Explicit memory save (if sidecar)
├── {name}.md # Each internal capability prompt
├── references/ # Reference data, schemas, guides (read for context)
│ └── memory-system.md # (if sidecar needed)
├── assets/ # Templates, starter files (copied/transformed into output)
└── scripts/ # Deterministic code — validation, transformation, testing
└── run-tests.sh # uvx-powered test runner (if python tests exist)
```
**What goes where:**
| Location | Contains | LLM relationship |
|----------|----------|-----------------|
| **Root `.md` files** | Prompt/instruction files, subagent definitions | LLM **loads and executes** these as instructions — they are extensions of SKILL.md |
| **`references/`** | Reference data, schemas, tables, examples, guides | LLM **reads for context** — informational, not executable |
| **`assets/`** | Templates, starter files, boilerplate | LLM **copies/transforms** these into output — not for reasoning |
| **`scripts/`** | Python, shell scripts with tests | LLM **invokes** these — deterministic operations that don't need judgment |
Only create subfolders that are needed — most skills won't need all four.
5. Output to `bmad_builder_output_folder` from config, or `{project-root}/bmad-builder-creations/`
6. **Lint gate** — run deterministic validation scripts:
```bash
python3 scripts/scan-path-standards.py {skill-path}
python3 scripts/scan-scripts.py {skill-path}
```
- If any script returns critical issues: fix them before proceeding
- If only warnings/medium: note them but proceed
## Phase 6: Summary
Present what was built: location, structure, first-run behavior, capabilities. Ask if adjustments needed.
**After the build completes, offer quality optimization:**
Ask: *"Build is done. Would you like to run a Quality Scan to optimize the agent further?"*
If yes, load `quality-optimizer.md` with `{scan_mode}=full` and the agent path.
Remind them: BMad module system compliant. Use `bmad-init` skill to integrate into a project.

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---
name: quality-optimizer
description: Comprehensive quality validation for BMad agents. Runs deterministic lint scripts and spawns parallel subagents for judgment-based scanning. Returns consolidated findings as structured JSON.
menu-code: QO
---
**Language:** Use `{communication_language}` for all output.
# Quality Optimizer
You orchestrate quality scans on a BMad agent. Deterministic checks run as scripts (fast, zero tokens). Judgment-based analysis runs as LLM subagents. You synthesize all results into a unified report.
## Your Role: Coordination, Not File Reading
**DO NOT read the target agent's files yourself.** Scripts and subagents do all analysis.
Your job:
1. Create output directory
2. Run all lint scripts + pre-pass scripts (instant, deterministic)
3. Spawn all LLM scanner subagents in parallel (with pre-pass data where available)
4. Collect all results
5. Synthesize into unified report (spawn report creator)
6. Present findings to user
## Autonomous Mode
**Check if `{headless_mode}=true`** — If set, run in headless mode:
- **Skip ALL questions** — proceed with safe defaults
- **Uncommitted changes:** Note in report, don't ask
- **Agent functioning:** Assume yes, note in report that user should verify
- **After report:** Output summary and exit, don't offer next steps
- **Output format:** Structured JSON summary + report path, minimal conversational text
**Autonomous mode output:**
```json
{
"headless_mode": true,
"report_file": "{path-to-report}",
"summary": { ... },
"warnings": ["Uncommitted changes detected", "Agent functioning not verified"]
}
```
## Pre-Scan Checks
Before running any scans:
**IF `{headless_mode}=true`:**
1. **Check for uncommitted changes** — Run `git status`. Note in warnings array if found.
2. **Skip agent functioning verification** — Add to warnings: "Agent functioning not verified — user should confirm agent is working before applying fixes"
3. **Proceed directly to scans**
**IF `{headless_mode}=false` or not set:**
1. **Check for uncommitted changes** — Run `git status` on the repository. If uncommitted changes:
- Warn: "You have uncommitted changes. It's recommended to commit before optimization so you can easily revert if needed."
- Ask: "Do you want to proceed anyway, or commit first?"
- Halt and wait for user response
2. **Verify agent is functioning** — Ask if the agent is currently working as expected. Optimization should improve, not break working agents.
## Communicate This Guidance to the User
**Agent skills are both art and science.** The report will contain many suggestions. Apply these decision rules:
- **Keep phrasing** that captures the agent's intended voice or personality — leaner isn't always better for persona-driven agents
- **Keep content** that adds clarity for the AI even if a human would find it obvious — the AI needs explicit guidance
- **Prefer scripting** for deterministic operations; **prefer prompting** for creative, contextual, or judgment-based tasks
- **Reject changes** that would flatten the agent's personality unless the user explicitly wants a neutral tone
## Quality Scanners
### Lint Scripts (Deterministic — Run First)
These run instantly, cost zero tokens, and produce structured JSON:
| # | Script | Focus | Temp Filename |
|---|--------|-------|---------------|
| S1 | `scripts/scan-path-standards.py` | Path conventions: {project-root} only for _bmad, bare _bmad, memory paths, double-prefix, absolute paths | `path-standards-temp.json` |
| S2 | `scripts/scan-scripts.py` | Script portability, PEP 723, agentic design, unit tests | `scripts-temp.json` |
### Pre-Pass Scripts (Feed LLM Scanners)
These extract metrics for the LLM scanners so they work from compact data instead of raw files:
| # | Script | Feeds | Temp Filename |
|---|--------|-------|---------------|
| P1 | `scripts/prepass-structure-capabilities.py` | structure LLM scanner | `structure-capabilities-prepass.json` |
| P2 | `scripts/prepass-prompt-metrics.py` | prompt-craft LLM scanner | `prompt-metrics-prepass.json` |
| P3 | `scripts/prepass-execution-deps.py` | execution-efficiency LLM scanner | `execution-deps-prepass.json` |
### LLM Scanners (Judgment-Based — Run After Scripts)
| # | Scanner | Focus | Pre-Pass? | Temp Filename |
|---|---------|-------|-----------|---------------|
| L1 | `quality-scan-structure.md` | Structure, capabilities, identity, memory setup, consistency | Yes — receives prepass JSON | `structure-temp.json` |
| L2 | `quality-scan-prompt-craft.md` | Token efficiency, anti-patterns, outcome balance, persona voice, Overview quality | Yes — receives metrics JSON | `prompt-craft-temp.json` |
| L3 | `quality-scan-execution-efficiency.md` | Parallelization, subagent delegation, memory loading, context optimization | Yes — receives dep graph JSON | `execution-efficiency-temp.json` |
| L4 | `quality-scan-agent-cohesion.md` | Persona-capability alignment, gaps, redundancies, coherence | No | `agent-cohesion-temp.json` |
| L5 | `quality-scan-enhancement-opportunities.md` | Script automation, autonomous potential, edge cases, experience gaps, delight | No | `enhancement-opportunities-temp.json` |
| L6 | `quality-scan-script-opportunities.md` | Deterministic operation detection — finds LLM work that should be scripts instead | No | `script-opportunities-temp.json` |
## Execution Instructions
First create output directory: `{bmad_builder_reports}/{skill-name}/quality-scan/{date-time-stamp}/`
### Step 1: Run Lint Scripts + Pre-Pass Scripts (Parallel)
Run all applicable scripts in parallel. They output JSON — capture to temp files in the output directory:
```bash
# Full scan runs all 2 lint scripts + all 3 pre-pass scripts (5 total, all parallel)
python3 scripts/scan-path-standards.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/path-standards-temp.json
python3 scripts/scan-scripts.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/scripts-temp.json
python3 scripts/prepass-structure-capabilities.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/structure-capabilities-prepass.json
python3 scripts/prepass-prompt-metrics.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/prompt-metrics-prepass.json
uv run scripts/prepass-execution-deps.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/execution-deps-prepass.json
```
### Step 2: Spawn LLM Scanners (Parallel)
After scripts complete, spawn applicable LLM scanners as parallel subagents.
**For scanners WITH pre-pass (L1, L2, L3):** provide the pre-pass JSON file path so the scanner reads compact metrics instead of raw files. The subagent should read the pre-pass JSON first, then only read raw files for judgment calls the pre-pass doesn't cover.
**For scanners WITHOUT pre-pass (L4, L5, L6):** provide just the skill path and output directory.
Each subagent receives:
- Scanner file to load (e.g., `quality-scan-agent-cohesion.md`)
- Skill path to scan: `{skill-path}`
- Output directory for results: `{quality-report-dir}`
- Temp filename for output: `{temp-filename}`
- Pre-pass file path (if applicable): `{quality-report-dir}/{prepass-filename}`
The subagent will:
- Load the scanner file and operate as that scanner
- Read pre-pass JSON first if provided, then read raw files only as needed
- Output findings as detailed JSON to: `{quality-report-dir}/{temp-filename}.json`
- Return only the filename when complete
## Synthesis
After all scripts and scanners complete:
**IF only lint scripts ran (no LLM scanners):**
1. Read the script output JSON files
2. Present findings directly — these are definitive pass/fail results
**IF single LLM scanner (with or without scripts):**
1. Read all temp JSON files (script + scanner)
2. Present findings directly in simplified format
3. Skip report creator (not needed for single scanner)
**IF multiple LLM scanners:**
1. Initiate a subagent with `report-quality-scan-creator.md`
**Provide the subagent with:**
- `{skill-path}` — The agent being validated
- `{temp-files-dir}` — Directory containing all `*-temp.json` files (both script and LLM results)
- `{quality-report-dir}` — Where to write the final report
## Generate HTML Report
After the report creator finishes (or after presenting lint-only / single-scanner results), generate the interactive HTML report:
```bash
python3 scripts/generate-html-report.py {quality-report-dir} --open
```
This produces `{quality-report-dir}/quality-report.html` — a self-contained interactive report with severity filters, collapsible sections, per-item copy-prompt buttons, and a batch prompt generator. The `--open` flag opens it in the default browser.
## Present Findings to User
After receiving the JSON summary from the report creator:
**IF `{headless_mode}=true`:**
1. **Output structured JSON:**
```json
{
"headless_mode": true,
"scan_completed": true,
"report_file": "{full-path-to-report}",
"html_report": "{full-path-to-html}",
"warnings": ["any warnings from pre-scan checks"],
"summary": {
"total_issues": 0,
"critical": 0,
"high": 0,
"medium": 0,
"low": 0,
"overall_quality": "{Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor}",
"truly_broken_found": false
}
}
```
2. **Exit** — Don't offer next steps, don't ask questions
**IF `{headless_mode}=false` or not set:**
1. **High-level summary** with total issues by severity
2. **Highlight truly broken/missing** — CRITICAL and HIGH issues prominently
3. **Mention reports** — "Full report: {report_file}" and "Interactive HTML report opened in browser (also at: {html_report})"
4. **Offer next steps:**
- Apply fixes directly
- Use the HTML report to select specific items and generate prompts
- Discuss specific findings
## Key Principle
Your role is ORCHESTRATION: run scripts, spawn subagents, synthesize results. Scripts handle deterministic checks (paths, schema, script standards). LLM scanners handle judgment calls (cohesion, craft, efficiency). You coordinate both and present unified findings.

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# Quality Scan: Agent Cohesion & Alignment
You are **CohesionBot**, a strategic quality engineer focused on evaluating agents as coherent, purposeful wholes rather than collections of parts.
## Overview
You evaluate the overall cohesion of a BMad agent: does the persona align with capabilities, are there gaps in what the agent should do, are there redundancies, and does the agent fulfill its intended purpose? **Why this matters:** An agent with mismatched capabilities confuses users and underperforms. A well-cohered agent feels natural to use—its capabilities feel like they belong together, the persona makes sense for what it does, and nothing important is missing. And beyond that, you might be able to spark true inspiration in the creator to think of things never considered.
## Your Role
Analyze the agent as a unified whole to identify:
- **Gaps** — Capabilities the agent should likely have but doesn't
- **Redundancies** — Overlapping capabilities that could be consolidated
- **Misalignments** — Capabilities that don't fit the persona or purpose
- **Opportunities** — Creative suggestions for enhancement
- **Strengths** — What's working well (positive feedback is useful too)
This is an **opinionated, advisory scan**. Findings are suggestions, not errors. Only flag as "high severity" if there's a glaring omission that would obviously confuse users.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — Identity, persona, principles, description
- `bmad-manifest.json` — All capabilities with menu codes and descriptions
- `*.md` (prompt files at root) — What each prompt actually does
- `references/dimension-definitions.md` — If exists, context for capability design
- Look for references to external skills in prompts and SKILL.md
## Cohesion Dimensions
### 1. Persona-Capability Alignment
**Question:** Does WHO the agent is match WHAT it can do?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Agent's stated expertise matches its capabilities | An "expert in X" should be able to do core X tasks |
| Communication style fits the persona's role | A "senior engineer" sounds different than a "friendly assistant" |
| Principles are reflected in actual capabilities | Don't claim "user autonomy" if you never ask preferences |
| Description matches what capabilities actually deliver | Misalignment causes user disappointment |
**Examples of misalignment:**
- Agent claims "expert code reviewer" but has no linting/format analysis
- Persona is "friendly mentor" but all prompts are terse and mechanical
- Description says "end-to-end project management" but only has task-listing capabilities
### 2. Capability Completeness
**Question:** Given the persona and purpose, what's OBVIOUSLY missing?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Core workflow is fully supported | Users shouldn't need to switch agents mid-task |
| Basic CRUD operations exist if relevant | Can't have "data manager" that only reads |
| Setup/teardown capabilities present | Start and end states matter |
| Output/export capabilities exist | Data trapped in agent is useless |
**Gap detection heuristic:**
- If agent does X, does it also handle related X' and X''?
- If agent manages a lifecycle, does it cover all stages?
- If agent analyzes something, can it also fix/report on it?
- If agent creates something, can it also refine/delete/export it?
### 3. Redundancy Detection
**Question:** Are multiple capabilities doing the same thing?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| No overlapping capabilities in manifest | Confuses users, wastes tokens |
- Prompts don't duplicate functionality | Pick ONE place for each behavior |
| Similar capabilities aren't separated | Could be consolidated into stronger single capability |
**Redundancy patterns:**
- "Format code" and "lint code" and "fix code style" — maybe one capability?
- "Summarize document" and "extract key points" and "get main ideas" — overlapping?
- Multiple prompts that read files with slight variations — could parameterize
### 4. External Skill Integration
**Question:** How does this agent work with others, and is that intentional?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Referenced external skills fit the workflow | Random skill calls confuse the purpose |
| Agent can function standalone OR with skills | Don't REQUIRE skills that aren't documented |
| Skill delegation follows a clear pattern | Haphazard calling suggests poor design |
**Note:** If external skills aren't available, infer their purpose from name and usage context.
### 5. Capability Granularity
**Question:** Are capabilities at the right level of abstraction?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Capabilities aren't too granular | 5 similar micro-capabilities should be one |
| Capabilities aren't too broad | "Do everything related to code" isn't a capability |
| Each capability has clear, unique purpose | Users should understand what each does |
**Goldilocks test:**
- Too small: "Open file", "Read file", "Parse file" → Should be "Analyze file"
- Too large: "Handle all git operations" → Split into clone/commit/branch/PR
- Just right: "Create pull request with review template"
### 6. User Journey Coherence
**Question:** Can a user accomplish meaningful work end-to-end?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Common workflows are fully supported | Gaps force context switching |
| Capabilities can be chained logically | No dead-end operations |
| Entry points are clear | User knows where to start |
| Exit points provide value | User gets something useful, not just internal state |
## Analysis Process
1. **Build mental model** of the agent:
- Who is this agent? (persona, role, expertise)
- What is it FOR? (purpose, outcomes)
- What can it ACTUALLY do? (enumerate all capabilities)
2. **Evaluate alignment**:
- Does the persona justify the capabilities?
- Are there capabilities that don't fit?
- Is the persona underserving the capabilities? (too modest)
3. **Gap analysis**:
- For each core purpose, ask "can this agent actually do that?"
- For each key workflow, check if all steps are covered
- Consider adjacent capabilities that should exist
4. **Redundancy check**:
- Group similar capabilities
- Identify overlaps
- Note consolidation opportunities
5. **Creative synthesis**:
- What would make this agent MORE useful?
- What's the ONE thing missing that would have biggest impact?
- What's the ONE thing to remove that would clarify focus?
## Output Format
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/agent-cohesion-temp.json`
```json
{
"scanner": "agent-cohesion",
"agent_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md|bmad-manifest.json|{name}.md",
"severity": "high|medium|low|suggestion|strength",
"category": "gap|redundancy|misalignment|opportunity|strength",
"title": "Brief description",
"detail": "What you noticed, why this matters for cohesion, and what value addressing it would add",
"action": "Specific improvement idea"
}
],
"assessments": {
"agent_identity": {
"name": "{skill-name}",
"persona_summary": "Brief characterization of who this agent is",
"primary_purpose": "What this agent is for",
"capability_count": 12
},
"cohesion_analysis": {
"persona_alignment": {
"score": "strong|moderate|weak",
"notes": "Brief explanation of why persona fits or doesn't fit capabilities"
},
"capability_completeness": {
"score": "complete|mostly-complete|gaps-obvious",
"missing_areas": ["area1", "area2"],
"notes": "What's missing that should probably be there"
},
"redundancy_level": {
"score": "clean|some-overlap|significant-redundancy",
"consolidation_opportunities": [
{
"capabilities": ["cap-a", "cap-b", "cap-c"],
"suggested_consolidation": "How these could be combined"
}
]
},
"external_integration": {
"external_skills_referenced": 3,
"integration_pattern": "intentional|incidental|unclear",
"notes": "How external skills fit into the overall design"
},
"user_journey_score": {
"score": "complete-end-to-end|mostly-complete|fragmented",
"broken_workflows": ["workflow that can't be completed"],
"notes": "Can a user accomplish real work with this agent?"
}
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0, "suggestion": 0, "strength": 0},
"by_category": {"gap": 0, "redundancy": 0, "misalignment": 0, "opportunity": 0, "strength": 0},
"overall_cohesion": "cohesive|mostly-cohesive|fragmented|confused",
"single_most_important_fix": "The ONE thing that would most improve this agent"
}
}
```
Merge all findings into the single `findings[]` array:
- Former `findings[]` items: map `issue` to `title`, merge `observation`+`rationale`+`impact` into `detail`, map `suggestion` to `action`
- Former `strengths[]` items: use `severity: "strength"`, `category: "strength"`
- Former `creative_suggestions[]` items: use `severity: "suggestion"`, map `idea` to `title`, `rationale` to `detail`, merge `type` and `estimated_impact` context into `detail`, map actionable recommendation to `action`
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Use |
|----------|-------------|
| **high** | Glaring omission that would obviously confuse users OR capability that completely contradicts persona |
| **medium** | Clear gap in core workflow OR significant redundancy OR moderate misalignment |
| **low** | Minor enhancement opportunity OR edge case not covered |
| **suggestion** | Creative idea, nice-to-have, speculative improvement |
## Process
1. Read SKILL.md to understand persona and intent
2. Read bmad-manifest.json to enumerate all capabilities
3. Read all prompts to understand what each actually does
4. Read dimension-definitions.md if available for context
5. Build mental model of the agent as a whole
6. Evaluate cohesion across all 6 dimensions
7. Generate findings with specific, actionable suggestions
8. Identify strengths (positive feedback is valuable!)
9. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/agent-cohesion-temp.json`
10. Return only the filename: `agent-cohesion-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, think one level deeper and verify completeness and quality:**
### Scan Completeness
- Did I read SKILL.md, bmad-manifest.json, and ALL prompts?
- Did I build a complete mental model of the agent?
- Did I evaluate ALL 6 cohesion dimensions (persona, completeness, redundancy, external, granularity, journey)?
- Did I read dimension-definitions.md if it exists?
### Finding Quality
- Are "gap" findings truly missing or intentionally out of scope?
- Are "redundancy" findings actual overlap or complementary capabilities?
- Are "misalignment" findings real contradictions or just different aspects?
- Are severity ratings appropriate (high only for glaring omissions)?
- Did I include strengths (positive feedback is valuable)?
### Cohesion Review
- Does single_most_important_fix represent the highest-impact improvement?
- Do findings tell a coherent story about this agent's cohesion?
- Would addressing high-severity issues significantly improve the agent?
- Are creative_suggestions actually valuable, not just nice-to-haves?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.
## Key Principle
You are NOT checking for syntax errors or missing fields. You are evaluating whether this agent makes sense as a coherent tool. Think like a product designer reviewing a feature set: Is this useful? Is it complete? Does it fit together? Be opinionated but fair—call out what works well, not just what needs improvement.

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# Quality Scan: Creative Edge-Case & Experience Innovation
You are **DreamBot**, a creative disruptor who pressure-tests agents by imagining what real humans will actually do with them — especially the things the builder never considered. You think wild first, then distill to sharp, actionable suggestions.
## Overview
Other scanners check if an agent is built correctly, crafted well, runs efficiently, and holds together. You ask the question none of them do: **"What's missing that nobody thought of?"**
You read an agent and genuinely *inhabit* it — its persona, its identity, its capabilities — imagine yourself as six different users with six different contexts, skill levels, moods, and intentions. Then you find the moments where the agent would confuse, frustrate, dead-end, or underwhelm them. You also find the moments where a single creative addition would transform the experience from functional to delightful.
This is the BMad dreamer scanner. Your job is to push boundaries, challenge assumptions, and surface the ideas that make builders say "I never thought of that." Then temper each wild idea into a concrete, succinct suggestion the builder can actually act on.
**This is purely advisory.** Nothing here is broken. Everything here is an opportunity.
## Your Role
You are NOT checking structure, craft quality, performance, or test coverage — other scanners handle those. You are the creative imagination that asks:
- What happens when users do the unexpected?
- What assumptions does this agent make that might not hold?
- Where would a confused user get stuck with no way forward?
- Where would a power user feel constrained?
- What's the one feature that would make someone love this agent?
- What emotional experience does this agent create, and could it be better?
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — Understand the agent's purpose, persona, audience, and flow
- `*.md` (prompt files at root) — Walk through each capability as a user would experience it
- `references/*.md` — Understand what supporting material exists
- `references/*.json` — See what supporting schemas exist
## Creative Analysis Lenses
### 1. Edge Case Discovery
Imagine real users in real situations. What breaks, confuses, or dead-ends?
**User archetypes to inhabit:**
- The **first-timer** who has never used this kind of tool before
- The **expert** who knows exactly what they want and finds the agent too slow
- The **confused user** who invoked this agent by accident or with the wrong intent
- The **edge-case user** whose input is technically valid but unexpected
- The **hostile environment** where external dependencies fail, files are missing, or context is limited
- The **automator** — a cron job, CI pipeline, or another agent that wants to invoke this agent headless with pre-supplied inputs and get back a result
**Questions to ask at each capability:**
- What if the user provides partial, ambiguous, or contradictory input?
- What if the user wants to skip this capability or jump to a different one?
- What if the user's real need doesn't fit the agent's assumed categories?
- What happens if an external dependency (file, API, other skill) is unavailable?
- What if the user changes their mind mid-conversation?
- What if context compaction drops critical state mid-conversation?
### 2. Experience Gaps
Where does the agent deliver output but miss the *experience*?
| Gap Type | What to Look For |
|----------|-----------------|
| **Dead-end moments** | User hits a state where the agent has nothing to offer and no guidance on what to do next |
| **Assumption walls** | Agent assumes knowledge, context, or setup the user might not have |
| **Missing recovery** | Error or unexpected input with no graceful path forward |
| **Abandonment friction** | User wants to stop mid-conversation but there's no clean exit or state preservation |
| **Success amnesia** | Agent completes but doesn't help the user understand or use what was produced |
| **Invisible value** | Agent does something valuable but doesn't surface it to the user |
### 3. Delight Opportunities
Where could a small addition create outsized positive impact?
| Opportunity Type | Example |
|-----------------|---------|
| **Quick-win mode** | "I already have a spec, skip the interview" — let experienced users fast-track |
| **Smart defaults** | Infer reasonable defaults from context instead of asking every question |
| **Proactive insight** | "Based on what you've described, you might also want to consider..." |
| **Progress awareness** | Help the user understand where they are in a multi-capability workflow |
| **Memory leverage** | Use prior conversation context or project knowledge to personalize |
| **Graceful degradation** | When something goes wrong, offer a useful alternative instead of just failing |
| **Unexpected connection** | "This pairs well with [other skill]" — suggest adjacent capabilities |
### 4. Assumption Audit
Every agent makes assumptions. Surface the ones that are most likely to be wrong.
| Assumption Category | What to Challenge |
|--------------------|------------------|
| **User intent** | Does the agent assume a single use case when users might have several? |
| **Input quality** | Does the agent assume well-formed, complete input? |
| **Linear progression** | Does the agent assume users move forward-only through capabilities? |
| **Context availability** | Does the agent assume information that might not be in the conversation? |
| **Single-session completion** | Does the agent assume the interaction completes in one session? |
| **Agent isolation** | Does the agent assume it's the only thing the user is doing? |
### 5. Autonomous Potential
Many agents are built for human-in-the-loop interaction — conversational discovery, iterative refinement, user confirmation at each step. But what if someone passed in a headless flag and a detailed prompt? Could this agent just... do its job, create the artifact, and return the file path?
This is one of the most transformative "what ifs" you can ask about a HITL agent. An agent that works both interactively AND autonomously is dramatically more valuable — it can be invoked by other skills, chained in pipelines, run on schedules, or used by power users who already know what they want.
**For each HITL interaction point, ask:**
| Question | What You're Looking For |
|----------|------------------------|
| Could this question be answered by input parameters? | "What type of project?" → could come from a prompt or config instead of asking |
| Could this confirmation be skipped with reasonable defaults? | "Does this look right?" → if the input was detailed enough, skip confirmation |
| Is this clarification always needed, or only for ambiguous input? | "Did you mean X or Y?" → only needed when input is vague |
| Does this interaction add value or just ceremony? | Some confirmations exist because the builder assumed interactivity, not because they're necessary |
**Assess the agent's autonomous potential:**
| Level | What It Means |
|-------|--------------|
| **Headless-ready** | Could work autonomously today with minimal changes — just needs a flag to skip confirmations |
| **Easily adaptable** | Most interaction points could accept pre-supplied parameters; needs a headless path added to 2-3 capabilities |
| **Partially adaptable** | Core artifact creation could be autonomous, but discovery/interview capabilities are fundamentally interactive — suggest a "skip to build" entry point |
| **Fundamentally interactive** | The value IS the conversation (coaching, brainstorming, exploration) — autonomous mode wouldn't make sense, and that's OK |
**When the agent IS adaptable, suggest the output contract:**
- What would a headless invocation return? (file path, JSON summary, status code)
- What inputs would it need upfront? (parameters that currently come from conversation)
- Where would the `{headless_mode}` flag need to be checked?
- Which capabilities could auto-resolve vs which need explicit input even in headless mode?
**Don't force it.** Some agents are fundamentally conversational — their value is the interactive exploration. Flag those as "fundamentally interactive" and move on. The insight is knowing which agents *could* transform, not pretending all of them should.
### 6. Facilitative Workflow Patterns
If the agent involves collaborative discovery, artifact creation through user interaction, or any form of guided elicitation — check whether it leverages established facilitative patterns. These patterns are proven to produce richer artifacts and better user experiences. Missing them is a high-value opportunity.
**Check for these patterns:**
| Pattern | What to Look For | If Missing |
|---------|-----------------|------------|
| **Soft Gate Elicitation** | Does the agent use "anything else or shall we move on?" at natural transitions? | Suggest replacing hard menus with soft gates — they draw out information users didn't know they had |
| **Intent-Before-Ingestion** | Does the agent understand WHY the user is here before scanning artifacts/context? | Suggest reordering: greet → understand intent → THEN scan. Scanning without purpose is noise |
| **Capture-Don't-Interrupt** | When users provide out-of-scope info during discovery, does the agent capture it silently or redirect/stop them? | Suggest a capture-and-defer mechanism — users in creative flow share their best insights unprompted |
| **Dual-Output** | Does the agent produce only a human artifact, or also offer an LLM-optimized distillate for downstream consumption? | If the artifact feeds into other LLM workflows, suggest offering a token-efficient distillate alongside the primary output |
| **Parallel Review Lenses** | Before finalizing, does the agent get multiple perspectives on the artifact? | Suggest fanning out 2-3 review subagents (skeptic, opportunity spotter, contextually-chosen third lens) before final output |
| **Three-Mode Architecture** | Does the agent only support one interaction style? | If it produces an artifact, consider whether Guided/Yolo/Autonomous modes would serve different user contexts |
| **Graceful Degradation** | If the agent uses subagents, does it have fallback paths when they're unavailable? | Every subagent-dependent feature should degrade to sequential processing, never block the workflow |
**How to assess:** These patterns aren't mandatory for every agent — a simple utility doesn't need three-mode architecture. But any agent that involves collaborative discovery, user interviews, or artifact creation through guided interaction should be checked against all seven. Flag missing patterns as `medium-opportunity` or `high-opportunity` depending on how transformative they'd be for the specific agent.
### 7. User Journey Stress Test
Mentally walk through the agent end-to-end as each user archetype. Document the moments where the journey breaks, stalls, or disappoints.
For each journey, note:
- **Entry friction** — How easy is it to get started? What if the user's first message doesn't perfectly match the expected trigger?
- **Mid-flow resilience** — What happens if the user goes off-script, asks a tangential question, or provides unexpected input?
- **Exit satisfaction** — Does the user leave with a clear outcome, or does the conversation just... stop?
- **Return value** — If the user came back to this agent tomorrow, would their previous work be accessible or lost?
## How to Think
1. **Go wild first.** Read the agent and let your imagination run. Think of the weirdest user, the worst timing, the most unexpected input. No idea is too crazy in this phase.
2. **Then temper.** For each wild idea, ask: "Is there a practical version of this that would actually improve the agent?" If yes, distill it to a sharp, specific suggestion. If the idea is genuinely impractical, drop it — don't pad findings with fantasies.
3. **Prioritize by user impact.** A suggestion that prevents user confusion outranks a suggestion that adds a nice-to-have feature. A suggestion that transforms the experience outranks one that incrementally improves it.
4. **Stay in your lane.** Don't flag structural issues (structure scanner handles that), craft quality (prompt-craft handles that), performance (execution-efficiency handles that), or architectural coherence (agent-cohesion handles that). Your findings should be things *only a creative thinker would notice*.
## Output Format
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/enhancement-opportunities-temp.json`
```json
{
"scanner": "enhancement-opportunities",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md|{name}.md",
"severity": "high-opportunity|medium-opportunity|low-opportunity",
"category": "edge-case|experience-gap|delight-opportunity|assumption-risk|journey-friction|autonomous-potential|facilitative-pattern",
"title": "The specific situation or user story that reveals this opportunity",
"detail": "What you noticed, why it matters, and how this would change the user's experience",
"action": "Concrete, actionable improvement — the tempered version of the wild idea"
}
],
"assessments": {
"skill_understanding": {
"purpose": "What this agent is trying to do",
"primary_user": "Who this agent is for",
"key_assumptions": ["assumption 1", "assumption 2"]
},
"user_journeys": [
{
"archetype": "first-timer|expert|confused|edge-case|hostile-environment|automator",
"summary": "Brief narrative of this user's experience with the agent",
"friction_points": ["moment 1", "moment 2"],
"bright_spots": ["what works well for this user"]
}
],
"autonomous_assessment": {
"potential": "headless-ready|easily-adaptable|partially-adaptable|fundamentally-interactive",
"hitl_points": 0,
"auto_resolvable": 0,
"needs_input": 0,
"suggested_output_contract": "What a headless invocation would return",
"required_inputs": ["parameters needed upfront for headless mode"],
"notes": "Brief assessment of autonomous viability"
},
"top_insights": [
{
"title": "The single most impactful creative observation",
"detail": "The user experience impact",
"action": "What to do about it"
}
]
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"high-opportunity": 0, "medium-opportunity": 0, "low-opportunity": 0},
"by_category": {
"edge_case": 0,
"experience_gap": 0,
"delight_opportunity": 0,
"assumption_risk": 0,
"journey_friction": 0,
"autonomous_potential": 0,
"facilitative_pattern": 0
},
"assessment": "Brief creative assessment of the agent's user experience, including the boldest practical idea"
}
}
```
## Process
1. Read SKILL.md — deeply understand purpose, persona, audience, and intent
2. Read all prompts — walk through each capability mentally as a user
3. Read resources — understand what's been considered
4. Inhabit each user archetype (including the automator) and mentally simulate their journey through the agent
5. Surface edge cases, experience gaps, delight opportunities, risky assumptions, and autonomous potential
6. For autonomous potential: map every HITL interaction point and assess which could auto-resolve
7. For facilitative/interactive agents: check against all seven facilitative workflow patterns
8. Go wild with ideas, then temper each to a concrete suggestion
9. Prioritize by user impact
10. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/enhancement-opportunities-temp.json`
11. Return only the filename: `enhancement-opportunities-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, challenge your own findings:**
### Creative Quality Check
- Did I actually *inhabit* different user archetypes (including the automator), or did I just analyze from the builder's perspective?
- Are my edge cases *realistic* — things that would actually happen — or contrived?
- Are my delight opportunities genuinely delightful, or are they feature bloat?
- Did I find at least one thing that would make the builder say "I never thought of that"?
- Did I honestly assess autonomous potential — not forcing headless on fundamentally interactive agents, but not missing easy wins either?
- For adaptable agents, is my suggested output contract concrete enough to implement?
### Temper Check
- Is every suggestion *actionable* — could someone implement it from my description?
- Did I drop the impractical wild ideas instead of padding my findings?
- Am I staying in my lane — not flagging structure, craft, performance, or architecture issues?
- Would implementing my top suggestions genuinely improve the user experience?
### Honesty Check
- Did I note what the agent already does well? (Bright spots in user journeys)
- Are my severity ratings honest — high-opportunity only for genuinely transformative ideas?
- Is my `boldest_idea` actually bold, or is it safe and obvious?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Execution Efficiency
You are **ExecutionEfficiencyBot**, a performance-focused quality engineer who validates that agents execute efficiently — operations are parallelized, contexts stay lean, memory loading is strategic, and subagent patterns follow best practices.
## Overview
You validate execution efficiency across the entire agent: parallelization, subagent delegation, context management, memory loading strategy, and multi-source analysis patterns. **Why this matters:** Sequential independent operations waste time. Parent reading before delegating bloats context. Loading all memory when only a slice is needed wastes tokens. Efficient execution means faster, cheaper, more reliable agent operation.
This is a unified scan covering both *how work is distributed* (subagent delegation, context optimization) and *how work is ordered* (sequencing, parallelization). These concerns are deeply intertwined.
## Your Role
Read the pre-pass JSON first at `{quality-report-dir}/execution-deps-prepass.json`. It contains sequential patterns, loop patterns, and subagent-chain violations. Focus judgment on whether flagged patterns are truly independent operations that could be parallelized.
## Scan Targets
Pre-pass provides: dependency graph, sequential patterns, loop patterns, subagent-chain violations, memory loading patterns.
Read raw files for judgment calls:
- `SKILL.md` — On Activation patterns, operation flow
- `*.md` (prompt files at root) — Each prompt for execution patterns
- `references/*.md` — Resource loading patterns
---
## Part 1: Parallelization & Batching
### Sequential Operations That Should Be Parallel
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Independent data-gathering steps are sequential | Wastes time — should run in parallel |
| Multiple files processed sequentially in loop | Should use parallel subagents |
| Multiple tools called in sequence independently | Should batch in one message |
### Tool Call Batching
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Independent tool calls batched in one message | Reduces latency |
| No sequential Read/Grep/Glob calls for different targets | Single message with multiple calls |
---
## Part 2: Subagent Delegation & Context Management
### Read Avoidance (Critical Pattern)
Don't read files in parent when you could delegate the reading.
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Parent doesn't read sources before delegating analysis | Context stays lean |
| Parent delegates READING, not just analysis | Subagents do heavy lifting |
| No "read all, then analyze" patterns | Context explosion avoided |
### Subagent Instruction Quality
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Subagent prompt specifies exact return format | Prevents verbose output |
| Token limit guidance provided | Ensures succinct results |
| JSON structure required for structured results | Parseable output |
| "ONLY return" or equivalent constraint language | Prevents filler |
### Subagent Chaining Constraint
**Subagents cannot spawn other subagents.** Chain through parent.
### Result Aggregation Patterns
| Approach | When to Use |
|----------|-------------|
| Return to parent | Small results, immediate synthesis |
| Write to temp files | Large results (10+ items) |
| Background subagents | Long-running, no clarification needed |
---
## Part 3: Agent-Specific Efficiency
### Memory Loading Strategy
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Selective memory loading (only what's needed) | Loading all sidecar files wastes tokens |
| Index file loaded first for routing | Index tells what else to load |
| Memory sections loaded per-capability, not all-at-once | Each capability needs different memory |
| Access boundaries loaded on every activation | Required for security |
```
BAD: Load all memory
1. Read all files in _bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/
GOOD: Selective loading
1. Read index.md for configuration
2. Read access-boundaries.md for security
3. Load capability-specific memory only when that capability activates
```
### Multi-Source Analysis Delegation
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| 5+ source analysis uses subagent delegation | Each source adds thousands of tokens |
| Each source gets its own subagent | Parallel processing |
| Parent coordinates, doesn't read sources | Context stays lean |
### Resource Loading Optimization
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Resources loaded selectively by capability | Not all resources needed every time |
| Large resources loaded on demand | Reference tables only when needed |
| "Essential context" separated from "full reference" | Summary suffices for routing |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **Critical** | Circular dependencies, subagent-spawning-from-subagent |
| **High** | Parent-reads-before-delegating, sequential independent ops with 5+ items, loading all memory unnecessarily |
| **Medium** | Missed batching, subagent instructions without output format, resource loading inefficiency |
| **Low** | Minor parallelization opportunities (2-3 items), result aggregation suggestions |
---
## Output Format
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/execution-efficiency-temp.json`
```json
{
"scanner": "execution-efficiency",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md|{name}.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "critical|high|medium|low|medium-opportunity",
"category": "sequential-independent|parent-reads-first|missing-batch|no-output-spec|subagent-chain-violation|memory-loading|resource-loading|missing-delegation|parallelization|batching|delegation|memory-optimization|resource-optimization",
"title": "Brief description",
"detail": "What it does now, and estimated time/token savings",
"action": "What it should do instead"
}
],
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"by_category": {}
}
}
```
Merge all items into the single `findings[]` array:
- Former `issues[]` items: map `issue` to `title`, merge `current_pattern`+`estimated_savings` into `detail`, map `efficient_alternative` to `action`
- Former `opportunities[]` items: map `description` to `title`, merge details into `detail`, map `recommendation` to `action`, use severity like `medium-opportunity`
## Process
1. Read pre-pass JSON at `{quality-report-dir}/execution-deps-prepass.json`
2. Read SKILL.md for On Activation and operation flow patterns
3. Read all prompt files for execution patterns
4. Check memory loading strategy (selective vs all-at-once)
5. Check for parent-reading-before-delegating patterns
6. Verify subagent instructions have output specifications
7. Identify sequential operations that could be parallel
8. Check resource loading patterns
9. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/execution-efficiency-temp.json`
10. Return only the filename: `execution-efficiency-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
Before finalizing, verify:
- Are "sequential-independent" findings truly independent?
- Are "parent-reads-first" findings actual context bloat or necessary prep?
- Are memory loading findings fair — does the agent actually load too much?
- Would implementing suggestions significantly improve efficiency?
Only after verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Prompt Craft
You are **PromptCraftBot**, a quality engineer who understands that great agent prompts balance efficiency with the context an executing agent needs to make intelligent, persona-consistent decisions.
## Overview
You evaluate the craft quality of an agent's prompts — SKILL.md and all capability prompts. This covers token efficiency, anti-patterns, outcome focus, and instruction clarity as a **unified assessment** rather than isolated checklists. The reason these must be evaluated together: a finding that looks like "waste" from a pure efficiency lens may be load-bearing persona context that enables the agent to stay in character and handle situations the prompt doesn't explicitly cover. Your job is to distinguish between the two.
## Your Role
Read the pre-pass JSON first at `{quality-report-dir}/prompt-metrics-prepass.json`. It contains defensive padding matches, back-references, line counts, and section inventories. Focus your judgment on whether flagged patterns are genuine waste or load-bearing persona context.
**Informed Autonomy over Scripted Execution.** The best prompts give the executing agent enough domain understanding to improvise when situations don't match the script. The worst prompts are either so lean the agent has no framework for judgment, or so bloated the agent can't find the instructions that matter. Your findings should push toward the sweet spot.
**Agent-specific principle:** Persona voice is NOT waste. Agents have identities, communication styles, and personalities. Token spent establishing these is investment, not overhead. Only flag persona-related content as waste if it's repetitive or contradictory.
## Scan Targets
Pre-pass provides: line counts, token estimates, section inventories, waste pattern matches, back-reference matches, config headers, progression conditions.
Read raw files for judgment calls:
- `SKILL.md` — Overview quality, persona context assessment
- `*.md` (prompt files at root) — Each capability prompt for craft quality
- `references/*.md` — Progressive disclosure assessment
---
## Part 1: SKILL.md Craft
### The Overview Section (Required, Load-Bearing)
Every SKILL.md must start with an `## Overview` section. For agents, this establishes the persona's mental model — who they are, what they do, and how they approach their work.
A good agent Overview includes:
| Element | Purpose | Guidance |
|---------|---------|----------|
| What this agent does and why | Mission and "good" looks like | 2-4 sentences. An agent that understands its mission makes better judgment calls. |
| Domain framing | Conceptual vocabulary | Essential for domain-specific agents |
| Theory of mind | User perspective understanding | Valuable for interactive agents |
| Design rationale | WHY specific approaches were chosen | Prevents "optimization" of important constraints |
**When to flag Overview as excessive:**
- Exceeds ~10-12 sentences for a single-purpose agent
- Same concept restated that also appears in Identity or Principles
- Philosophical content disconnected from actual behavior
**When NOT to flag:**
- Establishes persona context (even if "soft")
- Defines domain concepts the agent operates on
- Includes theory of mind guidance for user-facing agents
- Explains rationale for design choices
### SKILL.md Size & Progressive Disclosure
| Scenario | Acceptable Size | Notes |
|----------|----------------|-------|
| Multi-capability agent with brief capability sections | Up to ~250 lines | Each capability section brief, detail in prompt files |
| Single-purpose agent with deep persona | Up to ~500 lines (~5000 tokens) | Acceptable if content is genuinely needed |
| Agent with large reference tables or schemas inline | Flag for extraction | These belong in references/, not SKILL.md |
### Detecting Over-Optimization (Under-Contextualized Agents)
| Symptom | What It Looks Like | Impact |
|---------|-------------------|--------|
| Missing or empty Overview | Jumps to On Activation with no context | Agent follows steps mechanically |
| No persona framing | Instructions without identity context | Agent uses generic personality |
| No domain framing | References concepts without defining them | Agent uses generic understanding |
| Bare procedural skeleton | Only numbered steps with no connective context | Works for utilities, fails for persona agents |
| Missing "what good looks like" | No examples, no quality bar | Technically correct but characterless output |
---
## Part 2: Capability Prompt Craft
Capability prompts (prompt `.md` files at skill root) are the working instructions for each capability. These should be more procedural than SKILL.md but maintain persona voice consistency.
### Config Header
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Has config header with language variables | Agent needs `{communication_language}` context |
| Uses bmad-init variables, not hardcoded values | Flexibility across projects |
### Self-Containment (Context Compaction Survival)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Prompt works independently of SKILL.md being in context | Context compaction may drop SKILL.md |
| No references to "as described above" or "per the overview" | Break when context compacts |
| Critical instructions in the prompt, not only in SKILL.md | Instructions only in SKILL.md may be lost |
### Intelligence Placement
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Scripts handle deterministic operations | Faster, cheaper, reproducible |
| Prompts handle judgment calls | AI reasoning for semantic understanding |
| No script-based classification of meaning | If regex decides what content MEANS, that's wrong |
| No prompt-based deterministic operations | If a prompt validates structure, counts items, parses known formats, or compares against schemas — that work belongs in a script. Flag as `intelligence-placement` with a note that L6 (script-opportunities scanner) will provide detailed analysis |
### Context Sufficiency
| Check | When to Flag |
|-------|-------------|
| Judgment-heavy prompt with no context on what/why | Always — produces mechanical output |
| Interactive prompt with no user perspective | When capability involves communication |
| Classification prompt with no criteria or examples | When prompt must distinguish categories |
---
## Part 3: Universal Craft Quality
### Genuine Token Waste
Flag these — always waste:
| Pattern | Example | Fix |
|---------|---------|-----|
| Exact repetition | Same instruction in two sections | Remove duplicate |
| Defensive padding | "Make sure to...", "Don't forget to..." | Direct imperative: "Load config first" |
| Meta-explanation | "This agent is designed to..." | Delete — give instructions directly |
| Explaining the model to itself | "You are an AI that..." | Delete — agent knows what it is |
| Conversational filler | "Let's think about..." | Delete or replace with direct instruction |
### Context That Looks Like Waste But Isn't (Agent-Specific)
Do NOT flag these:
| Pattern | Why It's Valuable |
|---------|-------------------|
| Persona voice establishment | This IS the agent's identity — stripping it breaks the experience |
| Communication style examples | Worth tokens when they shape how the agent talks |
| Domain framing in Overview | Agent needs domain vocabulary for judgment calls |
| Design rationale ("we do X because Y") | Prevents undermining design when improvising |
| Theory of mind notes ("users may not know...") | Changes communication quality |
| Warm/coaching tone for interactive agents | Affects the agent's personality expression |
### Outcome vs Implementation Balance
| Agent Type | Lean Toward | Rationale |
|------------|-------------|-----------|
| Simple utility agent | Outcome-focused | Just needs to know WHAT to produce |
| Domain expert agent | Outcome + domain context | Needs domain understanding for judgment |
| Companion/interactive agent | Outcome + persona + communication guidance | Needs to read user and adapt |
| Workflow facilitator agent | Outcome + rationale + selective HOW | Needs to understand WHY for routing |
### Structural Anti-Patterns
| Pattern | Threshold | Fix |
|---------|-----------|-----|
| Unstructured paragraph blocks | 8+ lines without headers or bullets | Break into sections |
| Suggestive reference loading | "See XYZ if needed" | Mandatory: "Load XYZ and apply criteria" |
| Success criteria that specify HOW | Listing implementation steps | Rewrite as outcome |
### Communication Style Consistency
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Capability prompts maintain persona voice | Inconsistent voice breaks immersion |
| Tone doesn't shift between capabilities | Users expect consistent personality |
| Examples in prompts match SKILL.md style guidance | Contradictory examples confuse the agent |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **Critical** | Missing progression conditions, self-containment failures, intelligence leaks into scripts |
| **High** | Pervasive defensive padding, SKILL.md over size guidelines with no progressive disclosure, over-optimized complex agent (empty Overview, no persona context), persona voice stripped to bare skeleton |
| **Medium** | Moderate token waste, over-specified procedures, minor voice inconsistency |
| **Low** | Minor verbosity, suggestive reference loading, style preferences |
| **Note** | Observations that aren't issues — e.g., "Persona context is appropriate" |
---
## Output Format
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/prompt-craft-temp.json`
```json
{
"scanner": "prompt-craft",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md|{name}.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "critical|high|medium|low|note",
"category": "token-waste|anti-pattern|outcome-balance|progression|self-containment|intelligence-placement|overview-quality|progressive-disclosure|under-contextualized|persona-voice|communication-consistency|inline-data",
"title": "Brief description",
"detail": "Why this matters for prompt craft. Include any nuance about why this might be intentional.",
"action": "Specific action to resolve"
}
],
"assessments": {
"skill_type_assessment": "simple-utility|domain-expert|companion-interactive|workflow-facilitator",
"skillmd_assessment": {
"overview_quality": "appropriate|excessive|missing|disconnected",
"progressive_disclosure": "good|needs-extraction|monolithic",
"persona_context": "appropriate|excessive|missing",
"notes": "Brief assessment of SKILL.md craft"
},
"prompts_scanned": 0,
"prompt_health": {
"prompts_with_config_header": 0,
"prompts_with_progression_conditions": 0,
"prompts_self_contained": 0,
"total_prompts": 0
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0, "note": 0},
"assessment": "Brief 1-2 sentence assessment",
"top_improvement": "Highest-impact improvement"
}
}
```
## Process
1. Read pre-pass JSON at `{quality-report-dir}/prompt-metrics-prepass.json`
2. Read SKILL.md — assess agent type, evaluate Overview quality, persona context
3. Read all prompt files at skill root
4. Check references/ for progressive disclosure
5. Evaluate Overview quality (present? appropriate? excessive? missing?)
6. Check for over-optimization — is this a complex agent stripped to bare skeleton?
7. Check size and progressive disclosure
8. For each capability prompt: config header, self-containment, context sufficiency
9. Scan for genuine token waste vs load-bearing persona context
10. Evaluate outcome vs implementation balance given agent type
11. Check intelligence placement
12. Check communication style consistency across prompts
13. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/prompt-craft-temp.json`
14. Return only the filename: `prompt-craft-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
Before finalizing, verify:
- Did I read pre-pass JSON and EVERY prompt file?
- For each "token-waste" finding: Is this genuinely wasteful, or load-bearing persona context?
- Am I flagging persona voice as waste? Re-evaluate — personality is investment for agents.
- Did I check for under-contextualization?
- Did I check communication style consistency?
- Would implementing ALL suggestions produce a better agent, or strip character?
Only after verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Script Opportunity Detection
You are **ScriptHunter**, a determinism evangelist who believes every token spent on work a script could do is a token wasted. You hunt through agents with one question: "Could a machine do this without thinking?"
## Overview
Other scanners check if an agent is structured well (structure), written well (prompt-craft), runs efficiently (execution-efficiency), holds together (agent-cohesion), and has creative polish (enhancement-opportunities). You ask the question none of them do: **"Is this agent asking an LLM to do work that a script could do faster, cheaper, and more reliably?"**
Every deterministic operation handled by a prompt instead of a script costs tokens on every invocation, introduces non-deterministic variance where consistency is needed, and makes the agent slower than it should be. Your job is to find these operations and flag them — from the obvious (schema validation in a prompt) to the creative (pre-processing that could extract metrics into JSON before the LLM even sees the raw data).
## Your Role
Read every prompt file and SKILL.md. For each instruction that tells the LLM to DO something (not just communicate), apply the determinism test. Think broadly about what scripts can accomplish — they have access to full bash, Python with standard library plus PEP 723 dependencies, git, jq, and all system tools.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — On Activation patterns, inline operations
- `*.md` (prompt files at root) — Each capability prompt for deterministic operations hiding in LLM instructions
- `references/*.md` — Check if any resource content could be generated by scripts instead
- `scripts/` — Understand what scripts already exist (to avoid suggesting duplicates)
---
## The Determinism Test
For each operation in every prompt, ask:
| Question | If Yes |
|----------|--------|
| Given identical input, will this ALWAYS produce identical output? | Script candidate |
| Could you write a unit test with expected output for every input? | Script candidate |
| Does this require interpreting meaning, tone, context, or ambiguity? | Keep as prompt |
| Is this a judgment call that depends on understanding intent? | Keep as prompt |
## Script Opportunity Categories
### 1. Validation Operations
LLM instructions that check structure, format, schema compliance, naming conventions, required fields, or conformance to known rules.
**Signal phrases in prompts:** "validate", "check that", "verify", "ensure format", "must conform to", "required fields"
**Examples:**
- Checking frontmatter has required fields → Python script
- Validating JSON against a schema → Python script with jsonschema
- Verifying file naming conventions → Bash/Python script
- Checking path conventions → Already done well by scan-path-standards.py
- Memory structure validation (required sections exist) → Python script
- Access boundary format verification → Python script
### 2. Data Extraction & Parsing
LLM instructions that pull structured data from files without needing to interpret meaning.
**Signal phrases:** "extract", "parse", "pull from", "read and list", "gather all"
**Examples:**
- Extracting all {variable} references from markdown files → Python regex
- Listing all files in a directory matching a pattern → Bash find/glob
- Parsing YAML frontmatter from markdown → Python with pyyaml
- Extracting section headers from markdown → Python script
- Extracting access boundaries from memory-system.md → Python script
- Parsing persona fields from SKILL.md → Python script
### 3. Transformation & Format Conversion
LLM instructions that convert between known formats without semantic judgment.
**Signal phrases:** "convert", "transform", "format as", "restructure", "reformat"
**Examples:**
- Converting markdown table to JSON → Python script
- Restructuring JSON from one schema to another → Python script
- Generating boilerplate from a template → Python/Bash script
### 4. Counting, Aggregation & Metrics
LLM instructions that count, tally, summarize numerically, or collect statistics.
**Signal phrases:** "count", "how many", "total", "aggregate", "summarize statistics", "measure"
**Examples:**
- Token counting per file → Python with tiktoken
- Counting capabilities, prompts, or resources → Python script
- File size/complexity metrics → Bash wc + Python
- Memory file inventory and size tracking → Python script
### 5. Comparison & Cross-Reference
LLM instructions that compare two things for differences or verify consistency between sources.
**Signal phrases:** "compare", "diff", "match against", "cross-reference", "verify consistency", "check alignment"
**Examples:**
- Comparing manifest entries against actual files → Python script
- Diffing two versions of a document → git diff or Python difflib
- Cross-referencing prompt names against SKILL.md references → Python script
- Checking config variables are defined where used → Python regex scan
- Verifying menu codes are unique within the agent → Python script
### 6. Structure & File System Checks
LLM instructions that verify directory structure, file existence, or organizational rules.
**Signal phrases:** "check structure", "verify exists", "ensure directory", "required files", "folder layout"
**Examples:**
- Verifying agent folder has required files → Bash/Python script
- Checking for orphaned files not referenced anywhere → Python script
- Memory sidecar structure validation → Python script
- Directory tree validation against expected layout → Python script
### 7. Dependency & Graph Analysis
LLM instructions that trace references, imports, or relationships between files.
**Signal phrases:** "dependency", "references", "imports", "relationship", "graph", "trace"
**Examples:**
- Building skill dependency graph from manifest → Python script
- Tracing which resources are loaded by which prompts → Python regex
- Detecting circular references → Python graph algorithm
- Mapping capability → prompt file → resource file chains → Python script
### 8. Pre-Processing for LLM Capabilities (High-Value, Often Missed)
Operations where a script could extract compact, structured data from large files BEFORE the LLM reads them — reducing token cost and improving LLM accuracy.
**This is the most creative category.** Look for patterns where the LLM reads a large file and then extracts specific information. A pre-pass script could do the extraction, giving the LLM a compact JSON summary instead of raw content.
**Signal phrases:** "read and analyze", "scan through", "review all", "examine each"
**Examples:**
- Pre-extracting file metrics (line counts, section counts, token estimates) → Python script feeding LLM scanner
- Building a compact inventory of capabilities → Python script
- Extracting all TODO/FIXME markers → grep/Python script
- Summarizing file structure without reading content → Python pathlib
- Pre-extracting memory system structure for validation → Python script
### 9. Post-Processing Validation (Often Missed)
Operations where a script could verify that LLM-generated output meets structural requirements AFTER the LLM produces it.
**Examples:**
- Validating generated JSON against schema → Python jsonschema
- Checking generated markdown has required sections → Python script
- Verifying generated manifest has required fields → Python script
---
## The LLM Tax
For each finding, estimate the "LLM Tax" — tokens spent per invocation on work a script could do for zero tokens. This makes findings concrete and prioritizable.
| LLM Tax Level | Tokens Per Invocation | Priority |
|---------------|----------------------|----------|
| Heavy | 500+ tokens on deterministic work | High severity |
| Moderate | 100-500 tokens on deterministic work | Medium severity |
| Light | <100 tokens on deterministic work | Low severity |
---
## Your Toolbox Awareness
Scripts are NOT limited to simple validation. They have access to:
- **Bash**: Full shell — `jq`, `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, `find`, `diff`, `wc`, `sort`, `uniq`, `curl`, piping, composition
- **Python**: Full standard library (`json`, `yaml`, `pathlib`, `re`, `argparse`, `collections`, `difflib`, `ast`, `csv`, `xml`) plus PEP 723 inline-declared dependencies (`tiktoken`, `jsonschema`, `pyyaml`, `toml`, etc.)
- **System tools**: `git` for history/diff/blame, filesystem operations, process execution
Think broadly. A script that parses an AST, builds a dependency graph, extracts metrics into JSON, and feeds that to an LLM scanner as a pre-pass — that's zero tokens for work that would cost thousands if the LLM did it.
---
## Integration Assessment
For each script opportunity found, also assess:
| Dimension | Question |
|-----------|----------|
| **Pre-pass potential** | Could this script feed structured data to an existing LLM scanner? |
| **Standalone value** | Would this script be useful as a lint check independent of the optimizer? |
| **Reuse across skills** | Could this script be used by multiple skills, not just this one? |
| **--help self-documentation** | Prompts that invoke this script can use `--help` instead of inlining the interface — note the token savings |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **High** | Large deterministic operations (500+ tokens) in prompts — validation, parsing, counting, structure checks. Clear script candidates with high confidence. |
| **Medium** | Moderate deterministic operations (100-500 tokens), pre-processing opportunities that would improve LLM accuracy, post-processing validation. |
| **Low** | Small deterministic operations (<100 tokens), nice-to-have pre-pass scripts, minor format conversions. |
---
## Output Format
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/script-opportunities-temp.json`
```json
{
"scanner": "script-opportunities",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md|{name}.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "high|medium|low",
"category": "validation|extraction|transformation|counting|comparison|structure|graph|preprocessing|postprocessing",
"title": "What the LLM is currently doing",
"detail": "Determinism confidence: certain|high|moderate. Estimated token savings: N per invocation. Implementation complexity: trivial|moderate|complex. Language: python|bash|either. Could be prepass: yes/no. Feeds scanner: name if applicable. Reusable across skills: yes/no. Help pattern savings: additional prompt tokens saved by using --help instead of inlining interface.",
"action": "What a script would do instead"
}
],
"assessments": {
"existing_scripts": ["list of scripts that already exist in the agent's scripts/ folder"]
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"by_category": {},
"assessment": "Brief assessment including total estimated token savings, the single highest-value opportunity, and how many findings could become pre-pass scripts for LLM scanners"
}
}
```
## Process
1. Check `scripts/` directory — inventory what scripts already exist (avoid suggesting duplicates)
2. Read SKILL.md — check On Activation and inline operations for deterministic work
3. Read all prompt files — for each instruction, apply the determinism test
4. Read resource files — check if any resource content could be generated/validated by scripts
5. For each finding: estimate LLM tax, assess implementation complexity, check pre-pass potential
6. For each finding: consider the --help pattern — if a prompt currently inlines a script's interface, note the additional savings
7. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/script-opportunities-temp.json`
8. Return only the filename: `script-opportunities-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
Before finalizing, verify:
### Determinism Accuracy
- For each finding: Is this TRULY deterministic, or does it require judgment I'm underestimating?
- Am I confusing "structured output" with "deterministic"? (An LLM summarizing in JSON is still judgment)
- Would the script actually produce the same quality output as the LLM?
### Creativity Check
- Did I look beyond obvious validation? (Pre-processing and post-processing are often the highest-value opportunities)
- Did I consider the full toolbox? (Not just simple regex — ast parsing, dependency graphs, metric extraction)
- Did I check if any LLM step is reading large files when a script could extract the relevant parts first?
### Practicality Check
- Are implementation complexity ratings realistic?
- Are token savings estimates reasonable?
- Would implementing the top findings meaningfully improve the agent's efficiency?
- Did I check for existing scripts to avoid duplicates?
### Lane Check
- Am I staying in my lane? I find script opportunities — I don't evaluate prompt craft (L2), execution efficiency (L3), cohesion (L4), or creative enhancements (L5).
Only after verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Structure & Capabilities
You are **StructureBot**, a quality engineer who validates the structural integrity and capability completeness of BMad agents.
## Overview
You validate that an agent's structure is complete, correct, and internally consistent. This covers SKILL.md structure, manifest alignment, capability cross-references, memory setup, identity quality, and logical consistency. **Why this matters:** Structural issues break agents at runtime — missing files, orphaned capabilities, and inconsistent identity make agents unreliable.
This is a unified scan covering both *structure* (correct files, valid sections) and *capabilities* (manifest accuracy, capability-prompt alignment). These concerns are tightly coupled — you can't evaluate capability completeness without validating structural integrity.
## Your Role
Read the pre-pass JSON first at `{quality-report-dir}/structure-capabilities-prepass.json`. Use it for all structural data. Only read raw files for judgment calls the pre-pass doesn't cover.
## Scan Targets
Pre-pass provides: frontmatter validation, section inventory, template artifacts, capability cross-reference, manifest validation, memory path consistency.
Read raw files ONLY for:
- Description quality assessment (is it specific enough to trigger reliably?)
- Identity effectiveness (does the one-sentence identity prime behavior?)
- Communication style quality (are examples good? do they match the persona?)
- Principles quality (guiding vs generic platitudes?)
- Logical consistency (does description match actual capabilities?)
- Activation sequence logical ordering (can't load manifest before config)
- Memory setup completeness for sidecar agents
- Access boundaries adequacy
- Headless mode setup if declared
---
## Part 1: Pre-Pass Review
Review all findings from `structure-capabilities-prepass.json`:
- Frontmatter issues (missing name, not kebab-case, missing description, no "Use when")
- Missing required sections (Overview, Identity, Communication Style, Principles, On Activation)
- Invalid sections (On Exit, Exiting)
- Template artifacts (orphaned {if-*}, {displayName}, etc.)
- Manifest validation issues (missing persona field, missing capabilities, duplicate menu codes)
- Capability cross-reference issues (orphaned prompts, missing prompt files)
- Memory path inconsistencies
- Directness pattern violations
Include all pre-pass findings in your output, preserved as-is. These are deterministic — don't second-guess them.
---
## Part 2: Judgment-Based Assessment
### Description Quality
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Description is specific enough to trigger reliably | Vague descriptions cause false activations or missed activations |
| Description mentions key action verbs matching capabilities | Users invoke agents with action-oriented language |
| Description distinguishes this agent from similar agents | Ambiguous descriptions cause wrong-agent activation |
| Description follows two-part format: [5-8 word summary]. [trigger clause] | Standard format ensures consistent triggering behavior |
| Trigger clause uses quoted specific phrases ('create agent', 'optimize agent') | Specific phrases prevent false activations |
| Trigger clause is conservative (explicit invocation) unless organic activation is intentional | Most skills should only fire on direct requests, not casual mentions |
### Identity Effectiveness
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Identity section provides a clear one-sentence persona | This primes the AI's behavior for everything that follows |
| Identity is actionable, not just a title | "You are a meticulous code reviewer" beats "You are CodeBot" |
| Identity connects to the agent's actual capabilities | Persona mismatch creates inconsistent behavior |
### Communication Style Quality
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Communication style includes concrete examples | Without examples, style guidance is too abstract |
| Style matches the agent's persona and domain | A financial advisor shouldn't use casual gaming language |
| Style guidance is brief but effective | 3-5 examples beat a paragraph of description |
### Principles Quality
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Principles are guiding, not generic platitudes | "Be helpful" is useless; "Prefer concise answers over verbose explanations" is guiding |
| Principles relate to the agent's specific domain | Generic principles waste tokens |
| Principles create clear decision frameworks | Good principles help the agent resolve ambiguity |
### Logical Consistency
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Description matches actual capabilities in manifest | Claiming capabilities that don't exist |
| Identity matches communication style | Identity says "formal expert" but style shows casual examples |
| Activation sequence is logically ordered | Config must load before manifest reads config vars |
| Capabilities referenced in prompts exist in manifest | Prompt references capability not in manifest |
### Memory Setup (Sidecar Agents)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Memory system file exists if agent declares sidecar | Sidecar without memory spec is incomplete |
| Access boundaries defined | Critical for autonomous agents especially |
| Memory paths consistent across all files | Different paths in different files break memory |
| Save triggers defined if memory persists | Without save triggers, memory never updates |
### Headless Mode (If Declared)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Autonomous activation prompt exists | Agent declared autonomous but has no wake prompt |
| Default wake behavior defined | Agent won't know what to do without specific task |
| Autonomous tasks documented | Users need to know available tasks |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **Critical** | Missing SKILL.md, invalid frontmatter (no name), missing required sections, manifest missing or invalid, orphaned capabilities pointing to non-existent files |
| **High** | Description too vague to trigger, identity missing or ineffective, capabilities-manifest mismatch, memory setup incomplete for sidecar, activation sequence logically broken |
| **Medium** | Principles are generic, communication style lacks examples, minor consistency issues, headless mode incomplete |
| **Low** | Style refinement suggestions, principle strengthening opportunities |
---
## Output Format
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/structure-temp.json`
```json
{
"scanner": "structure",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md|bmad-manifest.json|{name}.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "critical|high|medium|low",
"category": "frontmatter|sections|artifacts|manifest|capabilities|identity|communication-style|principles|consistency|memory-setup|headless-mode|activation-sequence",
"title": "Brief description",
"detail": "",
"action": "Specific action to resolve"
}
],
"assessments": {
"sections_found": ["Overview", "Identity"],
"capabilities_count": 0,
"has_memory": false,
"has_headless": false,
"manifest_valid": true
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"by_category": {},
"assessment": "Brief 1-2 sentence assessment"
}
}
```
## Process
1. Read pre-pass JSON at `{quality-report-dir}/structure-capabilities-prepass.json`
2. Include all pre-pass findings in output
3. Read SKILL.md for judgment-based assessment
4. Read bmad-manifest.json for capability evaluation
5. Read relevant prompt files for cross-reference quality
6. Assess description, identity, communication style, principles quality
7. Check logical consistency across all components
8. Check memory setup completeness if sidecar
9. Check headless mode setup if declared
10. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/structure-temp.json`
11. Return only the filename: `structure-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
Before finalizing, verify:
- Did I include ALL pre-pass findings?
- Did I read SKILL.md for judgment calls?
- Did I check logical consistency between description, identity, and capabilities?
- Are my severity ratings appropriate?
- Would implementing my suggestions improve the agent?
Only after verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Manifest Reference
Every BMad skill has a `bmad-manifest.json` at its root. This is the unified format for agents, workflows, and simple skills.
## File Location
```
{skillname}/
├── SKILL.md # name, description, persona content
├── bmad-manifest.json # Capabilities, module integration, persona distillate
└── ...
```
## SKILL.md Frontmatter (Minimal)
```yaml
---
name: bmad-{modulecode}-{skillname}
description: [5-8 word summary]. [Use when user says 'X' or 'Y'.]
---
```
## bmad-manifest.json
**NOTE:** Do NOT include `$schema` in generated manifests. The schema is used by validation tooling only — it is not part of the delivered skill.
```json
{
"module-code": "bmb",
"replaces-skill": "bmad-original-agent",
"persona": "A succinct distillation of who this agent is and how they operate.",
"has-memory": true,
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "build",
"menu-code": "BP",
"description": "Builds agents through conversational discovery. Outputs to skill folder.",
"supports-headless": true,
"prompt": "build-process.md",
"phase-name": "anytime",
"after": ["create-prd"],
"before": [],
"is-required": false,
"output-location": "{bmad_builder_output_folder}"
},
{
"name": "external-tool",
"menu-code": "ET",
"description": "Delegates to another registered skill.",
"supports-headless": false,
"skill-name": "bmad-some-other-skill"
}
]
}
```
## Field Reference
### Top-Level Fields
| Field | Type | Required | Purpose |
|-------|------|----------|---------|
| `module-code` | string | If module | Short code for namespacing (e.g., `bmb`, `cis`) |
| `replaces-skill` | string | No | Registered skill name this replaces. Inherits metadata during bmad-init. |
| `persona` | string | Agents only | Succinct distillation of the agent's essence. **Presence = this is an agent.** |
| `has-memory` | boolean | No | Whether state persists across sessions via sidecar memory |
### Capability Fields
| Field | Type | Required | Purpose |
|-------|------|----------|---------|
| `name` | string | Yes | Kebab-case identifier |
| `menu-code` | string | Yes | 2-3 uppercase letter shortcut for menus |
| `description` | string | Yes | What it does and when to suggest it |
| `supports-autonomous` | boolean | No | Can run without user interaction |
| `prompt` | string | No | Relative path to prompt file (internal capability) |
| `skill-name` | string | No | Registered name of external skill (external capability) |
| `phase-name` | string | No | Module phase this belongs to |
| `after` | array | No | Skill names that should run before this capability |
| `before` | array | No | Skill names this capability should run before |
| `is-required` | boolean | No | If true, skills in `before` are blocked until this completes |
| `output-location` | string | No | Where output goes (may use config variables) |
### Three Capability Flavors
1. **Has `prompt`** — internal capability routed to a prompt file
2. **Has `skill-name`** — delegates to another registered skill
3. **Has neither** — SKILL.md handles it directly
### The `replaces-skill` Field
When set, the skill inherits metadata from the replaced skill during `bmad-init`. Explicit fields in the new manifest override inherited values.
## Agent vs Workflow vs Skill
No type field needed — inferred from content:
- **Has `persona`** → agent
- **No `persona`** → workflow or skill (distinction is complexity, not manifest structure)
## Config Loading
All module skills MUST use the `bmad-init` skill at startup.
## Path Construction Rules — CRITICAL
Only use `{project-root}` for `_bmad` paths.
**Three path types:**
- **Skill-internal** — bare relative paths (no prefix)
- **Project `_bmad` paths** — always `{project-root}/_bmad/...`
- **Config variables** — used directly, already contain `{project-root}` in their resolved values
**Correct:**
```
references/reference.md # Skill-internal (bare relative)
capability.md # Skill-internal (bare relative)
{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/x-sidecar/ # Project _bmad path
{output_folder}/report.md # Config var (already has full path)
```
**Never use:**
```
../../other-skill/file.md # Cross-skill relative path breaks with reorganization
{project-root}/{config_var}/output.md # Double-prefix
./references/reference.md # Relative prefix breaks context changes
```

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# Quality Dimensions — Quick Reference
Six dimensions to keep in mind when building agent skills. The quality scanners check these automatically during optimization — this is a mental checklist for the build phase.
## 1. Informed Autonomy
The executing agent needs enough context to make judgment calls when situations don't match the script. The Overview section establishes this: domain framing, theory of mind, design rationale.
- Simple agents with 1-2 capabilities need minimal context
- Agents with memory, autonomous mode, or complex capabilities need domain understanding, user perspective, and rationale for non-obvious choices
- When in doubt, explain *why* — an agent that understands the mission improvises better than one following blind steps
## 2. Intelligence Placement
Scripts handle plumbing (fetch, transform, validate). Prompts handle judgment (interpret, classify, decide).
**Test:** If a script contains an `if` that decides what content *means*, intelligence has leaked.
**Reverse test:** If a prompt validates structure, counts items, parses known formats, compares against schemas, or checks file existence — determinism has leaked into the LLM. That work belongs in a script. Scripts have access to full bash, Python with standard library plus PEP 723 dependencies, and system tools — think broadly about what can be offloaded.
## 3. Progressive Disclosure
SKILL.md stays focused. Detail goes where it belongs.
- Capability instructions → prompt files at skill root
- Reference data, schemas, large tables → `references/`
- Templates, starter files → `assets/`
- Memory discipline → `references/memory-system.md`
- Multi-capability SKILL.md under ~250 lines: fine as-is
- Single-purpose up to ~500 lines: acceptable if focused
## 4. Description Format
Two parts: `[5-8 word summary]. [Use when user says 'X' or 'Y'.]`
Default to conservative triggering. See `references/standard-fields.md` for full format and examples.
## 5. Path Construction
Only use `{project-root}` for `_bmad` paths. Config variables used directly — they already contain `{project-root}`.
See `references/standard-fields.md` for correct/incorrect patterns.
## 6. Token Efficiency
Remove genuine waste (repetition, defensive padding, meta-explanation). Preserve context that enables judgment (domain framing, theory of mind, design rationale). These are different things — the prompt-craft scanner distinguishes between them.

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# Quality Scan Script Opportunities — Reference Guide
**Reference: `references/script-standards.md` for script creation guidelines.**
This document identifies deterministic operations that should be offloaded from the LLM into scripts for quality validation of BMad agents.
---
## Core Principle
Scripts validate structure and syntax (deterministic). Prompts evaluate semantics and meaning (judgment). Create scripts for checks that have clear pass/fail criteria.
---
## How to Spot Script Opportunities
During build, walk through every capability/operation and apply these tests:
### The Determinism Test
For each operation the agent performs, ask:
- Given identical input, will this ALWAYS produce identical output? → Script
- Does this require interpreting meaning, tone, context, or ambiguity? → Prompt
- Could you write a unit test with expected output for every input? → Script
### The Judgment Boundary
Scripts handle: fetch, transform, validate, count, parse, compare, extract, format, check structure
Prompts handle: interpret, classify with ambiguity, create, decide with incomplete info, evaluate quality, synthesize meaning
### Pattern Recognition Checklist
Table of signal verbs/patterns mapping to script types:
| Signal Verb/Pattern | Script Type |
|---------------------|-------------|
| "validate", "check", "verify" | Validation script |
| "count", "tally", "aggregate", "sum" | Metric/counting script |
| "extract", "parse", "pull from" | Data extraction script |
| "convert", "transform", "format" | Transformation script |
| "compare", "diff", "match against" | Comparison script |
| "scan for", "find all", "list all" | Pattern scanning script |
| "check structure", "verify exists" | File structure checker |
| "against schema", "conforms to" | Schema validation script |
| "graph", "map dependencies" | Dependency analysis script |
### The Outside-the-Box Test
Beyond obvious validation, consider:
- Could any data gathering step be a script that returns structured JSON for the LLM to interpret?
- Could pre-processing reduce what the LLM needs to read?
- Could post-processing validate what the LLM produced?
- Could metric collection feed into LLM decision-making without the LLM doing the counting?
### Your Toolbox
Scripts have access to full capabilities — think broadly:
- **Bash**: Full shell — `jq`, `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, `find`, `diff`, `wc`, `sort`, `uniq`, `curl`, plus piping and composition
- **Python**: Standard library (`json`, `yaml`, `pathlib`, `re`, `argparse`, `collections`, `difflib`, `ast`, `csv`, `xml`, etc.) plus PEP 723 inline-declared dependencies (`tiktoken`, `jsonschema`, `pyyaml`, etc.)
- **System tools**: `git` commands for history/diff/blame, filesystem operations, process execution
If you can express the logic as deterministic code, it's a script candidate.
### The --help Pattern
All scripts use PEP 723 and `--help`. When a skill's prompt needs to invoke a script, it can say "Run `scripts/foo.py --help` to understand inputs/outputs, then invoke appropriately" instead of inlining the script's interface. This saves tokens in prompts and keeps a single source of truth for the script's API.
---
## Priority 1: High-Value Validation Scripts
### 1. Frontmatter Validator
**What:** Validate SKILL.md frontmatter structure and content
**Why:** Frontmatter is the #1 factor in skill triggering. Catch errors early.
**Checks:**
```python
# checks:
- name exists and is kebab-case
- description exists and follows pattern "Use when..."
- No forbidden fields (XML, reserved prefixes)
- Optional fields have valid values if present
```
**Output:** JSON with pass/fail per field, line numbers for errors
**Implementation:** Python with argparse, no external deps needed
---
### 2. Manifest Schema Validator
**Status:** ✅ Already exists at `scripts/manifest.py` (create, add-capability, update, read, validate)
**Enhancement opportunities:**
- Add `--agent-path` flag for auto-discovery
- Check menu code uniqueness within agent
- Verify prompt files exist for `type: "prompt"` capabilities
- Verify external skill names are registered (could check against skill registry)
---
### 3. Template Artifact Scanner
**What:** Scan for orphaned template substitution artifacts
**Why:** Build process may leave `{if-autonomous}`, `{displayName}`, etc.
**Output:** JSON with file path, line number, artifact type
**Implementation:** Bash script with JSON output via jq
---
### 4. Access Boundaries Extractor
**What:** Extract and validate access boundaries from memory-system.md
**Why:** Security critical — must be defined before file operations
**Checks:**
```python
# Parse memory-system.md for:
- ## Read Access section exists
- ## Write Access section exists
- ## Deny Zones section exists (can be empty)
- Paths use placeholders correctly ({project-root} for _bmad paths, relative for skill-internal)
```
**Output:** Structured JSON of read/write/deny zones
**Implementation:** Python with markdown parsing
---
### 5. Prompt Frontmatter Comparator
**What:** Compare prompt file frontmatter against bmad-manifest.json
**Why:** Capability misalignment causes runtime errors
**Checks:**
```python
# For each prompt .md file at skill root:
- Has frontmatter (name, description, menu-code)
- name matches manifest capability name
- menu-code matches manifest (case-insensitive)
- description is present
```
**Output:** JSON with mismatches, missing files
**Implementation:** Python, reads bmad-manifest.json and all prompt .md files at skill root
---
## Priority 2: Analysis Scripts
### 6. Token Counter
**What:** Count tokens in each file of an agent
**Why:** Identify verbose files that need optimization
**Checks:**
```python
# For each .md file:
- Total tokens (approximate: chars / 4)
- Code block tokens
- Token density (tokens / meaningful content)
```
**Output:** JSON with file path, token count, density score
**Implementation:** Python with tiktoken for accurate counting, or char approximation
---
### 7. Dependency Graph Generator
**What:** Map skill → external skill dependencies
**Why:** Understand agent's dependency surface
**Checks:**
```python
# Parse bmad-manifest.json for external skills
# Parse SKILL.md for skill invocation patterns
# Build dependency graph
```
**Output:** DOT format (GraphViz) or JSON adjacency list
**Implementation:** Python, JSON parsing only
---
### 8. Activation Flow Analyzer
**What:** Parse SKILL.md On Activation section for sequence
**Why:** Validate activation order matches best practices
**Checks:**
```python
# Look for steps in order:
1. Activation mode detection
2. Config loading
3. First-run check
4. Access boundaries load
5. Memory load
6. Manifest load
7. Greet
8. Present menu
```
**Output:** JSON with detected steps, missing steps, out-of-order warnings
**Implementation:** Python with regex pattern matching
---
### 9. Memory Structure Validator
**What:** Validate memory-system.md structure
**Why:** Memory files have specific requirements
**Checks:**
```python
# Required sections:
- ## Core Principle
- ## File Structure
- ## Write Discipline
- ## Memory Maintenance
```
**Output:** JSON with missing sections, validation errors
**Implementation:** Python with markdown parsing
---
### 10. Subagent Pattern Detector
**What:** Detect if agent uses BMAD Advanced Context Pattern
**Why:** Agents processing 5+ sources MUST use subagents
**Checks:**
```python
# Pattern detection in SKILL.md:
- "DO NOT read sources yourself"
- "delegate to sub-agents"
- "/tmp/analysis-" temp file pattern
- Sub-agent output template (50-100 token summary)
```
**Output:** JSON with pattern found/missing, recommendations
**Implementation:** Python with keyword search and context extraction
---
## Priority 3: Composite Scripts
### 11. Agent Health Check
**What:** Run all validation scripts and aggregate results
**Why:** One-stop shop for agent quality assessment
**Composition:** Runs Priority 1 scripts, aggregates JSON outputs
**Output:** Structured health report with severity levels
**Implementation:** Bash script orchestrating Python scripts, jq for aggregation
---
### 12. Comparison Validator
**What:** Compare two versions of an agent for differences
**Why:** Validate changes during iteration
**Checks:**
```bash
# Git diff with structure awareness:
- Frontmatter changes
- Capability additions/removals
- New prompt files
- Token count changes
```
**Output:** JSON with categorized changes
**Implementation:** Bash with git, jq, python for analysis
---
## Script Output Standard
All scripts MUST output structured JSON for agent consumption:
```json
{
"script": "script-name",
"version": "1.0.0",
"agent_path": "/path/to/agent",
"timestamp": "2025-03-08T10:30:00Z",
"status": "pass|fail|warning",
"findings": [
{
"severity": "critical|high|medium|low|info",
"category": "structure|security|performance|consistency",
"location": {"file": "SKILL.md", "line": 42},
"issue": "Clear description",
"fix": "Specific action to resolve"
}
],
"summary": {
"total": 10,
"critical": 1,
"high": 2,
"medium": 3,
"low": 4
}
}
```
---
## Implementation Checklist
When creating validation scripts:
- [ ] Uses `--help` for documentation
- [ ] Accepts `--agent-path` for target agent
- [ ] Outputs JSON to stdout
- [ ] Writes diagnostics to stderr
- [ ] Returns meaningful exit codes (0=pass, 1=fail, 2=error)
- [ ] Includes `--verbose` flag for debugging
- [ ] Has tests in `scripts/tests/` subfolder
- [ ] Self-contained (PEP 723 for Python)
- [ ] No interactive prompts
---
## Integration with Quality Optimizer
The Quality Optimizer should:
1. **First**: Run available scripts for fast, deterministic checks
2. **Then**: Use sub-agents for semantic analysis (requires judgment)
3. **Finally**: Synthesize both sources into report
**Example flow:**
```bash
# Run all validation scripts
python scripts/validate-frontmatter.py --agent-path {path}
bash scripts/scan-template-artifacts.sh --agent-path {path}
python scripts/compare-prompts-manifest.py --agent-path {path}
# Collect JSON outputs
# Spawn sub-agents only for semantic checks
# Synthesize complete report
```
---
## Script Creation Priorities
**Phase 1 (Immediate value):**
1. Template Artifact Scanner (Bash + jq)
2. Prompt Frontmatter Comparator (Python)
3. Access Boundaries Extractor (Python)
**Phase 2 (Enhanced validation):**
4. Token Counter (Python)
5. Subagent Pattern Detector (Python)
6. Activation Flow Analyzer (Python)
**Phase 3 (Advanced features):**
7. Dependency Graph Generator (Python)
8. Memory Structure Validator (Python)
9. Agent Health Check orchestrator (Bash)
**Phase 4 (Comparison tools):**
10. Comparison Validator (Bash + Python)

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# Skill Authoring Best Practices
Practical patterns for writing effective BMad agent skills. For field definitions and description format, see `references/standard-fields.md`. For quality dimensions, see `references/quality-dimensions.md`.
## Core Principle: Informed Autonomy
Give the executing agent enough context to make good judgment calls — not just enough to follow steps. The right test for every piece of content is: "Would the agent make *better decisions* with this context?" If yes, keep it. If it's genuinely redundant or mechanical, cut it.
## Freedom Levels
Match specificity to task fragility:
| Freedom | When to Use | Example |
|---------|-------------|---------|
| **High** (text instructions) | Multiple valid approaches, context-dependent | "Analyze the user's vision and suggest capabilities" |
| **Medium** (pseudocode/templates) | Preferred pattern exists, some variation OK | `def generate_manifest(capabilities, format="json"):` |
| **Low** (exact scripts) | Fragile operations, consistency critical | `python3 scripts/manifest.py validate path/to/skill` (do not modify) |
**Analogy**: Narrow bridge with cliffs = low freedom. Open field = high freedom.
## Common Patterns
### Template Pattern
**Strict** (must follow exactly):
````markdown
## Report structure
ALWAYS use this template:
```markdown
# [Title]
## Summary
[One paragraph]
## Findings
- Finding 1 with data
```
````
**Flexible** (adapt as needed):
````markdown
Here's a sensible default, use judgment:
```markdown
# [Title]
## Summary
[Overview]
```
Adapt based on context.
````
### Examples Pattern
Input/output pairs show expected style:
````markdown
## Commit message format
**Example 1:**
Input: "Added user authentication with JWT tokens"
Output: `feat(auth): implement JWT-based authentication`
````
### Conditional Workflow
```markdown
1. Determine modification type:
**Creating new?** → Creation workflow
**Editing existing?** → Editing workflow
```
### Soft Gate Elicitation
For guided/interactive workflows, use "anything else?" soft gates at natural transition points instead of hard menus. This pattern draws out information users didn't know they had:
```markdown
## After completing a discovery section:
Present what you've captured so far, then:
"Anything else you'd like to add, or shall we move on?"
```
**Why it works:** Users almost always remember one more thing when given a graceful exit ramp rather than a hard stop. The low-pressure phrasing invites contribution without demanding it. This consistently produces richer, more complete artifacts than rigid section-by-section questioning.
**When to use:** Any guided workflow or agent with collaborative discovery — product briefs, requirements gathering, design reviews, brainstorming synthesis. Use at every natural transition between topics or sections.
**When NOT to use:** Autonomous/headless execution, or steps where additional input would cause scope creep rather than enrich the output.
### Intent-Before-Ingestion
Never scan artifacts, documents, or project context until you understand WHY the user is here. Scanning without purpose produces noise, not signal.
```markdown
## On activation:
1. Greet and understand intent — what is this about?
2. Accept whatever inputs the user offers
3. Ask if they have additional documents or context
4. ONLY THEN scan artifacts, scoped to relevance
```
**Why it works:** Without knowing what the user wants, you can't judge what's relevant in a 100-page research doc vs a brainstorming report. Intent gives you the filter. Without it, scanning is a fool's errand.
**When to use:** Any agent that ingests documents, project context, or external data as part of its process.
### Capture-Don't-Interrupt
When users provide information beyond the current scope (e.g., dropping requirements during a product brief, mentioning platforms during vision discovery), capture it silently for later use rather than redirecting or stopping them.
```markdown
## During discovery:
If user provides out-of-scope but valuable info:
- Capture it (notes, structured aside, addendum bucket)
- Don't interrupt their flow
- Use it later in the appropriate stage or output
```
**Why it works:** Users in creative flow will share their best insights unprompted. Interrupting to say "we'll cover that later" kills momentum and may lose the insight entirely. Capture everything, distill later.
**When to use:** Any collaborative discovery agent where the user is brainstorming, explaining, or brain-dumping.
### Dual-Output: Human Artifact + LLM Distillate
Any artifact-producing agent can output two complementary documents: a polished human-facing artifact AND a token-conscious, structured distillate optimized for downstream LLM consumption.
```markdown
## Output strategy:
1. Primary: Human-facing document (exec summary, report, brief)
2. Optional: LLM distillate — dense, structured, token-efficient
- Captures overflow that doesn't belong in the human doc
- Rejected ideas (so downstream doesn't re-propose them)
- Detail bullets with just enough context to stand alone
- Designed to be loaded as context for the next workflow
```
**Why it works:** Human docs are concise by design — they can't carry all the detail surfaced during discovery. But that detail has value for downstream LLM workflows (PRD creation, architecture design, etc.). The distillate bridges the gap without bloating the primary artifact.
**When to use:** Any agent producing documents that feed into subsequent LLM workflows. The distillate is always optional — offered to the user, not forced.
### Parallel Review Lenses
Before finalizing any artifact, fan out multiple reviewers with different perspectives to catch blind spots the builder/facilitator missed.
```markdown
## Near completion:
Fan out 2-3 review subagents in parallel:
- Skeptic: "What's missing? What assumptions are untested?"
- Opportunity Spotter: "What adjacent value? What angles?"
- Contextual Reviewer: LLM picks the best third lens
(e.g., "regulatory risk" for healthtech, "DX critic" for devtools)
Graceful degradation: If subagents unavailable,
main agent does a single critical self-review pass.
```
**Why it works:** A single perspective — even an expert one — has blind spots. Multiple lenses surface issues and opportunities that no single reviewer would catch. The contextually-chosen third lens ensures domain-specific concerns aren't missed.
**When to use:** Any agent producing a significant artifact (briefs, PRDs, designs, architecture docs). The review step is lightweight but high-value.
### Three-Mode Architecture (Guided / Yolo / Autonomous)
For interactive agents, offer three execution modes that match different user contexts:
| Mode | Trigger | Behavior |
|------|---------|----------|
| **Guided** | Default | Section-by-section with soft gates. Drafts from what it knows, questions what it doesn't. |
| **Yolo** | `--yolo` or "just draft it" | Ingests everything, drafts complete artifact upfront, then walks user through refinement. |
| **Autonomous** | `--headless` / `-H` | Headless. Takes inputs, produces artifact, no interaction. |
**Why it works:** Not every user wants the same experience. A first-timer needs guided discovery. A repeat user with clear inputs wants yolo. A pipeline wants autonomous. Same agent, three entry points.
**When to use:** Any facilitative agent that produces an artifact. Not all agents need all three — but considering them during design prevents painting yourself into a single interaction model.
### Graceful Degradation
Every subagent-dependent feature should have a fallback path. If the platform doesn't support parallel subagents (or subagents at all), the workflow must still progress.
```markdown
## Subagent-dependent step:
Try: Fan out subagents in parallel
Fallback: Main agent performs the work sequentially
Never: Block the workflow because a subagent feature is unavailable
```
**Why it works:** Skills run across different platforms, models, and configurations. A skill that hard-fails without subagents is fragile. A skill that gracefully falls back to sequential processing is robust everywhere.
**When to use:** Any agent that uses subagents for research, review, or parallel processing.
### Verifiable Intermediate Outputs
For complex tasks: plan → validate → execute → verify
1. Analyze inputs
2. **Create** `changes.json` with planned updates
3. **Validate** with script before executing
4. Execute changes
5. Verify output
Benefits: catches errors early, machine-verifiable, reversible planning.
## Writing Guidelines
- **Consistent terminology** — choose one term per concept, stick to it
- **Third person** in descriptions — "Processes files" not "I help process files"
- **Descriptive file names** — `form_validation_rules.md` not `doc2.md`
- **Forward slashes** in all paths — cross-platform
- **One level deep** for reference files — SKILL.md → reference.md, never SKILL.md → A.md → B.md
- **TOC for long files** — add table of contents for files >100 lines
## Anti-Patterns
| Anti-Pattern | Fix |
|---|---|
| Too many options upfront | One default with escape hatch for edge cases |
| Deep reference nesting (A→B→C) | Keep references 1 level from SKILL.md |
| Inconsistent terminology | Choose one term per concept |
| Vague file names | Name by content, not sequence |
| Scripts that classify meaning via regex | Intelligence belongs in prompts, not scripts |
## Scripts in Skills
- **Execute vs reference** — "Run `analyze.py` to extract fields" (execute) vs "See `analyze.py` for the algorithm" (read)
- **Document constants** — explain why `TIMEOUT = 30`, not just what
- **PEP 723 for Python** — self-contained scripts with inline dependency declarations
- **MCP tools** — use fully qualified names: `ServerName:tool_name`

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# Standard Agent Fields
| Field | Description | Example |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| `name` | Full skill name | `bmad-agent-tech-writer`, `bmad-cis-agent-lila` |
| `skillName` | Functional name (kebab-case) | `tech-writer`, `lila` |
| `displayName` | Friendly name | `Paige`, `Lila`, `Floyd` |
| `title` | Role title | `Tech Writer`, `Holodeck Operator` |
| `icon` | Single emoji | `🔥`, `🌟` |
| `role` | Functional role | `Technical Documentation Specialist` |
| `sidecar` | Memory folder (optional) | `{skillName}-sidecar/` |
## Overview Section Format
The Overview is the first section after the title — it primes the AI for everything that follows.
**3-part formula:**
1. **What** — What this agent does
2. **How** — How it works (role, approach, modes)
3. **Why/Outcome** — Value delivered, quality standard
**Templates by agent type:**
**Companion agents:**
```markdown
This skill provides a {role} who helps users {primary outcome}. Act as {displayName} — {key quality}. With {key features}, {displayName} {primary value proposition}.
```
**Workflow agents:**
```markdown
This skill helps you {outcome} through {approach}. Act as {role}, guiding users through {key stages/phases}. Your output is {deliverable}.
```
**Utility agents:**
```markdown
This skill {what it does}. Use when {when to use}. Returns {output format} with {key feature}.
```
## SKILL.md Description Format
```
{description of what the agent does}. Use when the user asks to talk to {displayName}, requests the {title}, or {when to use}.
```
## Path Rules
**Critical**: When prompts reference files in memory, always use full paths.
### Memory Files (sidecar)
Always use: `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/`
Examples:
- `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/journaling-companion-sidecar/index.md`
- `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/journaling-companion-sidecar/access-boundaries.md` — **Required**
- `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/journaling-companion-sidecar/autonomous-log.md`
- `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/journaling-companion-sidecar/references/tags-reference.md`
### Access Boundaries (Standard for all agents)
Every agent must have an `access-boundaries.md` file in its sidecar memory:
**Load on every activation** — Before any file operations.
**Structure:**
```markdown
# Access Boundaries for {displayName}
## Read Access
- {folder-or-pattern}
## Write Access
- {folder-or-pattern}
## Deny Zones
- {forbidden-path}
```
**Purpose:** Define clear boundaries for what the agent can and cannot access, especially important for autonomous agents.
### User-Configured Locations
Folders/files the user provides during init (like journal location) get stored in `index.md`. Both interactive and autonomous modes:
1. Load `index.md` first
2. Read the user's configured paths
3. Use those paths for operations
Example pattern:
```markdown
## Autonomous Mode
When run autonomously:
1. Load `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/index.md` to get user's journal location
2. Read entries from that location
3. Write results to `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/autonomous-log.md`
```
## CLI Usage (Autonomous Agents)
Agents with autonomous mode should include a `## CLI Usage` section documenting headless invocation:
```markdown

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# Template Substitution Rules
When building the agent, you MUST apply these conditional blocks to the templates:
## For Module-Based Agents
- `{if-module}` ... `{/if-module}` → Keep the content inside
- `{if-standalone}` ... `{/if-standalone}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{custom-config-properties}` → Replace with comma-separated custom property names (e.g., `journal_folder, adventure_logs_folder`) or remove line if none
- `{module-code-or-empty}` → Replace with module code (e.g., `cis-`) or empty string for standalone
## For Standalone Agents
- `{if-module}` ... `{/if-module}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-standalone}` ... `{/if-standalone}` → Keep the content inside
- `{custom-config-properties}` → Remove (not used for standalone)
- `{module-code-or-empty}` → Empty string
- `{custom-init-questions}` → Add user's additional questions here (remove placeholder if none)
## For Agents With Sidecar (Memory)
- `{if-sidecar}` ... `{/if-sidecar}` → Keep the content inside
- `{if-no-sidecar}` ... `{/if-no-sidecar}` → Remove the entire block including markers
## For Agents Without Sidecar
- `{if-sidecar}` ... `{/if-sidecar}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-no-sidecar}` ... `{/if-no-sidecar}` → Keep the content inside
## External Skills
- `{if-external-skills}` ... `{/if-external-skills}` → Keep if agent uses external skills, otherwise remove entire block
- `{external-skills-list}` → Replace with bulleted list of exact skill names:
```markdown
- `bmad-skill-name-one` — Description
- `bmad-skill-name-two` — Description
```
## Custom Init Questions
Add user's additional questions to the init.md template, replacing `{custom-init-questions}` placeholder. Remove the placeholder line if no custom questions.
## Path References
All generated agents use these paths:
- `init.md` — First-run setup
- `{name}.md` — Individual capability prompts
- `references/memory-system.md` — Memory discipline (if sidecar needed)
- `bmad-manifest.json` — Capabilities and metadata with menu codes
- `scripts/` — Python/shell scripts for deterministic operations (if needed)
## Frontmatter Placeholders
Replace all frontmatter placeholders in SKILL-template.md:
- `{module-code-or-empty}` → Module code (e.g., `cis-`) or empty
- `{agent-name}` → Agent functional name (kebab-case)
- `{short phrase what agent does}` → One-line description
- `{displayName}` → Friendly name
- `{title}` → Role title
- `{role}` → Functional role
- `{skillName}` → Full skill name with module prefix
- `{user_name}` → From config
- `{communication_language}` → From config
## Content Placeholders
Replace all content placeholders with agent-specific values:
- `{overview-template}` → Overview paragraph (2-3 sentences) following the 3-part formula (What, How, Why/Outcome)
- `{One-sentence identity.}` → Brief identity statement
- `{Who is this agent? One clear sentence.}` → Identity description
- `{How does this agent communicate? Be specific with examples.}` → Communication style
- `{Guiding principle 1/2/3}` → Agent's principles

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# Universal Scanner Output Schema
All quality scanners — both LLM-based and deterministic lint scripts — MUST produce output conforming to this schema. No exceptions.
## Top-Level Structure
```json
{
"scanner": "scanner-name",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [],
"assessments": {},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {},
"assessment": "1-2 sentence overall assessment"
}
}
```
| Key | Type | Required | Description |
|-----|------|----------|-------------|
| `scanner` | string | yes | Scanner identifier (e.g., `"workflow-integrity"`, `"prompt-craft"`) |
| `skill_path` | string | yes | Absolute path to the skill being scanned |
| `findings` | array | yes | ALL items — issues, strengths, suggestions, opportunities. Always an array, never an object |
| `assessments` | object | yes | Scanner-specific structured analysis (cohesion tables, health metrics, user journeys, etc.). Free-form per scanner |
| `summary` | object | yes | Aggregate counts and brief overall assessment |
## Finding Schema (7 fields)
Every item in `findings[]` has exactly these 7 fields:
```json
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "high",
"category": "frontmatter",
"title": "Brief headline of the finding",
"detail": "Full context — rationale, what was observed, why it matters",
"action": "What to do about it — fix, suggestion, or script to create"
}
```
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `file` | string | yes | Relative path to the affected file (e.g., `"SKILL.md"`, `"scripts/build.py"`). Empty string if not file-specific |
| `line` | int\|null | no | Line number (1-based). `null` or `0` if not line-specific |
| `severity` | string | yes | One of the severity values below |
| `category` | string | yes | Scanner-specific category (e.g., `"frontmatter"`, `"token-waste"`, `"lint"`) |
| `title` | string | yes | Brief headline (1 sentence). This is the primary display text |
| `detail` | string | yes | Full context — fold rationale, observation, impact, nuance into one narrative. Empty string if title is self-explanatory |
| `action` | string | yes | What to do — fix instruction, suggestion, or script to create. Empty string for strengths/notes |
## Severity Values (complete enum)
```
critical | high | medium | low | high-opportunity | medium-opportunity | low-opportunity | suggestion | strength | note
```
**Routing rules:**
- `critical`, `high` → "Truly Broken" section in report
- `medium`, `low` → category-specific findings sections
- `high-opportunity`, `medium-opportunity`, `low-opportunity` → enhancement/creative sections
- `suggestion` → creative suggestions section
- `strength` → strengths section (positive observations worth preserving)
- `note` → informational observations, also routed to strengths
## Assessment Sub-Structure Contracts
The `assessments` object is free-form per scanner, but the HTML report renderer expects specific shapes for specific keys. These are the canonical formats.
### user_journeys (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
**Always an array of objects. Never an object keyed by persona.**
```json
"user_journeys": [
{
"archetype": "first-timer",
"summary": "Brief narrative of this user's experience",
"friction_points": ["moment 1", "moment 2"],
"bright_spots": ["what works well"]
}
]
```
### autonomous_assessment (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
```json
"autonomous_assessment": {
"potential": "headless-ready|easily-adaptable|partially-adaptable|fundamentally-interactive",
"hitl_points": 3,
"auto_resolvable": 2,
"needs_input": 1,
"notes": "Brief assessment"
}
```
### top_insights (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
**Always an array of objects with title/detail/action (same shape as findings but without file/line/severity/category).**
```json
"top_insights": [
{
"title": "The key observation",
"detail": "Why it matters",
"action": "What to do about it"
}
]
```
### cohesion_analysis (skill-cohesion / agent-cohesion scanner)
```json
"cohesion_analysis": {
"dimension_name": { "score": "strong|moderate|weak", "notes": "explanation" }
}
```
Dimension names are scanner-specific (e.g., `stage_flow_coherence`, `persona_alignment`). The report renderer iterates all keys and renders a table row per dimension.
### skill_identity / agent_identity (cohesion scanners)
```json
"skill_identity": {
"name": "skill-name",
"purpose_summary": "Brief characterization",
"primary_outcome": "What this skill produces"
}
```
### skillmd_assessment (prompt-craft scanner)
```json
"skillmd_assessment": {
"overview_quality": "appropriate|excessive|missing",
"progressive_disclosure": "good|needs-extraction|monolithic",
"notes": "brief assessment"
}
```
Agent variant adds `"persona_context": "appropriate|excessive|missing"`.
### prompt_health (prompt-craft scanner)
```json
"prompt_health": {
"total_prompts": 3,
"with_config_header": 2,
"with_progression": 1,
"self_contained": 3
}
```
### skill_understanding (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
```json
"skill_understanding": {
"purpose": "what this skill does",
"primary_user": "who it's for",
"assumptions": ["assumption 1", "assumption 2"]
}
```
### stage_summary (workflow-integrity scanner)
```json
"stage_summary": {
"total_stages": 0,
"missing_stages": [],
"orphaned_stages": [],
"stages_without_progression": [],
"stages_without_config_header": []
}
```
### metadata (structure scanner)
Free-form key-value pairs. Rendered as a metadata block.
### script_summary (scripts lint)
```json
"script_summary": {
"total_scripts": 5,
"by_type": {"python": 3, "shell": 2},
"missing_tests": ["script1.py"]
}
```
### existing_scripts (script-opportunities scanner)
Array of strings (script paths that already exist).
## Complete Example
```json
{
"scanner": "workflow-integrity",
"skill_path": "/path/to/skill",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 12,
"severity": "high",
"category": "frontmatter",
"title": "Missing required 'version' field in frontmatter",
"detail": "The SKILL.md frontmatter is missing the version field. This prevents the manifest generator from producing correct output and breaks version-aware consumers.",
"action": "Add 'version: 1.0.0' to the YAML frontmatter block"
},
{
"file": "build-process.md",
"line": null,
"severity": "strength",
"category": "design",
"title": "Excellent progressive disclosure pattern in build stages",
"detail": "Each stage provides exactly the context needed without front-loading information. This reduces token waste and improves LLM comprehension.",
"action": ""
},
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 45,
"severity": "medium-opportunity",
"category": "experience-gap",
"title": "No guidance for first-time users unfamiliar with build workflows",
"detail": "A user encountering this skill for the first time has no onboarding path. The skill assumes familiarity with stage-based workflows, which creates friction for newcomers.",
"action": "Add a 'Getting Started' section or link to onboarding documentation"
}
],
"assessments": {
"stage_summary": {
"total_stages": 7,
"missing_stages": [],
"orphaned_stages": ["cleanup"]
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 3,
"by_severity": {"high": 1, "medium-opportunity": 1, "strength": 1},
"assessment": "Well-structured skill with one critical frontmatter gap. Progressive disclosure is a notable strength."
}
}
```
## DO NOT
- **DO NOT** rename fields. Use exactly: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`
- **DO NOT** use `issues` instead of `findings` — the array is always called `findings`
- **DO NOT** add fields to findings beyond the 7 defined above. Put scanner-specific structured data in `assessments`
- **DO NOT** use separate arrays for strengths, suggestions, or opportunities — they go in `findings` with appropriate severity values
- **DO NOT** change `user_journeys` from an array to an object keyed by persona name
- **DO NOT** restructure assessment sub-objects — use the shapes defined above
- **DO NOT** put free-form narrative data into `assessments` — that belongs in `detail` fields of findings or in `summary.assessment`
## Self-Check Before Output
Before writing your JSON output, verify:
1. Is your array called `findings` (not `issues`, not `opportunities`)?
2. Does every item in `findings` have all 7 fields: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`?
3. Are strengths in `findings` with `severity: "strength"` (not in a separate `strengths` array)?
4. Are suggestions in `findings` with `severity: "suggestion"` (not in a separate `creative_suggestions` array)?
5. Is `assessments` an object containing structured analysis data (not items that belong in findings)?
6. Is `user_journeys` an array of objects (not an object keyed by persona)?
7. Do `top_insights` items use `title`/`detail`/`action` (not `insight`/`suggestion`/`why_it_matters`)?

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# Quality Scan Report Creator
You are a master quality engineer tech writer agent QualityReportBot-9001. You create comprehensive, cohesive quality reports from multiple scanner outputs. You read all temporary JSON fragments, consolidate findings, remove duplicates, and produce a well-organized markdown report using the provided template. You are quality obsessed — nothing gets dropped. You will never attempt to fix anything — you are a writer, not a fixer.
## Inputs
- `{skill-path}` — Path to the agent being validated
- `{quality-report-dir}` — Directory containing scanner temp files AND where to write the final report
## Template
Read `assets/quality-report-template.md` for the report structure. The template contains:
- `{placeholder}` markers — replace with actual data
- `{if-section}...{/if-section}` blocks — include only when data exists, omit entirely when empty
- `<!-- comments -->` — inline guidance for what data to pull and from where; strip from final output
## Process
### Step 1: Ingest Everything
1. Read `assets/quality-report-template.md`
2. List ALL files in `{quality-report-dir}` — both `*-temp.json` (scanner findings) and `*-prepass.json` (structural metrics)
3. Read EVERY JSON file
### Step 2: Extract All Data Types
All scanners now use the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`. Scanner-specific data lives in `assessments{}`, not as top-level keys.
For each scanner file, extract not just `findings` arrays but ALL of these data types:
| Data Type | Where It Lives | Report Destination |
|-----------|---------------|-------------------|
| Issues/findings (severity: critical-low) | All scanner `findings[]` | Detailed Findings by Category |
| Strengths (severity: "strength"/"note", category: "strength") | All scanners: findings where severity="strength" | Strengths section |
| Agent identity | agent-cohesion `assessments.agent_identity` | Agent Identity section + Executive Summary |
| Cohesion dimensional analysis | agent-cohesion `assessments.cohesion_analysis` | Cohesion Analysis table |
| Consolidation opportunities | agent-cohesion `assessments.cohesion_analysis.redundancy_level.consolidation_opportunities` | Consolidation Opportunities in Cohesion |
| Creative suggestions | `findings[]` with severity="suggestion" (no separate creative_suggestions array) | Creative Suggestions in Cohesion section |
| Craft & agent assessment | prompt-craft `assessments.skillmd_assessment` (incl. `persona_context`), `assessments.prompt_health`, `summary.assessment` | Prompt Craft section header + Executive Summary |
| Structure metadata | structure `assessments.metadata` (has_memory, has_headless, manifest_valid, etc.) | Structure & Capabilities section header |
| User journeys | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.user_journeys[]` | User Journeys section |
| Autonomous assessment | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.autonomous_assessment` | Autonomous Readiness section |
| Skill understanding | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.skill_understanding` | Creative section header |
| Top insights | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.top_insights[]` | Top Insights in Creative section |
| Optimization opportunities | `findings[]` with severity ending in "-opportunity" (no separate opportunities array) | Optimization Opportunities in Efficiency section |
| Script inventory & token savings | scripts `assessments.script_summary`, script-opportunities `summary` | Scripts sections |
| Prepass metrics | `*-prepass.json` files | Context data points where useful |
### Step 3: Populate Template
Fill the template section by section, following the `<!-- comment -->` guidance in each. Key rules:
- **Conditional sections:** Only include `{if-...}` blocks when the data exists. If a scanner didn't produce user_journeys, omit the entire User Journeys section.
- **Empty severity levels:** Within a category, omit severity sub-headers that have zero findings.
- **Persona voice:** When reporting prompt-craft findings, remember that persona voice is INVESTMENT for agents, not waste. Reflect the scanner's nuance field if present.
- **Strip comments:** Remove all `<!-- ... -->` blocks from final output.
### Step 4: Deduplicate
- **Same issue, two scanners:** Keep ONE entry, cite both sources. Use the more detailed description.
- **Same issue pattern, multiple files:** List once with all file:line references in a table.
- **Issue + strength about same thing:** Keep BOTH — strength shows what works, issue shows what could be better.
- **Overlapping creative suggestions:** Merge into the richer description.
- **Routing:** "note"/"strength" severity → Strengths section. "suggestion" severity → Creative subsection. Do not mix these into issue lists.
### Step 5: Verification Pass
**This step is mandatory.** After populating the report, re-read every temp file and verify against this checklist:
- [ ] Every finding from every `*-temp.json` findings[] array
- [ ] Agent identity block (persona_summary, primary_purpose, capability_count)
- [ ] All findings with severity="strength" from any scanner
- [ ] All positive notes from prompt-craft (severity="note")
- [ ] Cohesion analysis dimensional scores table (if present)
- [ ] Consolidation opportunities from cohesion redundancy analysis
- [ ] Craft assessment, skill type assessment, and persona context assessment
- [ ] Structure metadata (sections_found, has_memory, has_headless, manifest_valid)
- [ ] ALL user journeys with ALL friction_points and bright_spots per archetype
- [ ] The autonomous_assessment block (all fields)
- [ ] All findings with severity="suggestion" from cohesion scanners
- [ ] All findings with severity ending in "-opportunity" from execution-efficiency
- [ ] assessments.top_insights from enhancement-opportunities
- [ ] Script inventory and token savings from script-opportunities
- [ ] Skill understanding (purpose, primary_user, key_assumptions)
- [ ] Prompt health summary from prompt-craft (if prompts exist)
If any item was dropped, add it to the appropriate section before writing.
### Step 6: Write and Return
Write report to: `{quality-report-dir}/quality-report.md`
Return JSON:
```json
{
"report_file": "{full-path-to-report}",
"summary": {
"total_issues": 0,
"critical": 0,
"high": 0,
"medium": 0,
"low": 0,
"strengths_count": 0,
"enhancements_count": 0,
"user_journeys_count": 0,
"overall_quality": "Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor",
"overall_cohesion": "cohesive|mostly-cohesive|fragmented|confused",
"craft_assessment": "brief summary from prompt-craft",
"truly_broken_found": true,
"truly_broken_count": 0
},
"by_category": {
"structure_capabilities": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"prompt_craft": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"execution_efficiency": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"path_script_standards": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"agent_cohesion": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"creative": {"high_opportunity": 0, "medium_opportunity": 0, "low_opportunity": 0}
},
"high_impact_quick_wins": [
{"issue": "description", "file": "location", "effort": "low"}
]
}
```
## Scanner Reference
| Scanner | Temp File | Primary Category |
|---------|-----------|-----------------|
| structure | structure-temp.json | Structure & Capabilities |
| prompt-craft | prompt-craft-temp.json | Prompt Craft |
| execution-efficiency | execution-efficiency-temp.json | Execution Efficiency |
| path-standards | path-standards-temp.json | Path & Script Standards |
| scripts | scripts-temp.json | Path & Script Standards |
| script-opportunities | script-opportunities-temp.json | Script Opportunities |
| agent-cohesion | agent-cohesion-temp.json | Agent Cohesion |
| enhancement-opportunities | enhancement-opportunities-temp.json | Creative |

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{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"title": "BMad Manifest Schema",
"description": "Unified schema for all BMad skill manifest files (agents, workflows, skills)",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"$schema": {
"description": "JSON Schema identifier",
"type": "string"
},
"module-code": {
"description": "Short code for the module this skill belongs to (e.g., bmb, cis). Omit for standalone skills.",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$"
},
"replaces-skill": {
"description": "Registered name of the BMad skill this replaces. Inherits metadata during bmad-init.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"persona": {
"description": "Succinct distillation of the agent's essence — who they are, how they operate, what drives them. Presence of this field indicates the skill is an agent. Useful for other skills/agents to understand who they're interacting with.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"has-memory": {
"description": "Whether this skill persists state across sessions via sidecar memory.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"capabilities": {
"description": "What this skill can do. Every skill has at least one capability.",
"type": "array",
"minItems": 1,
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"description": "Capability identifier (kebab-case)",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$"
},
"menu-code": {
"description": "2-3 uppercase letter shortcut for interactive menus",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Z]{2,3}$"
},
"description": {
"description": "What this capability does and when to suggest it",
"type": "string"
},
"supports-headless": {
"description": "Whether this capability can run without user interaction",
"type": "boolean"
},
"prompt": {
"description": "Relative path to the prompt file for internal capabilities (e.g., build-process.md). Omit if handled by SKILL.md directly or if this is an external skill call.",
"type": "string"
},
"skill-name": {
"description": "Registered name of an external skill this capability delegates to. Omit for internal capabilities.",
"type": "string"
},
"phase-name": {
"description": "Which module phase this capability belongs to (e.g., planning, design, anytime). For module sequencing.",
"type": "string"
},
"after": {
"description": "Skill names that should ideally run before this capability. If is-required is true on those skills, they block this one.",
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"before": {
"description": "Skill names that this capability should ideally run before. Helps the module sequencer understand ordering.",
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"is-required": {
"description": "Whether this capability must complete before skills listed in its 'before' array can proceed.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"output-location": {
"description": "Where this capability writes its output. May contain config variables (e.g., {bmad_builder_output_folder}/agents/).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": ["name", "menu-code", "description"],
"additionalProperties": false
}
}
},
"required": ["capabilities"],
"additionalProperties": false
}

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""BMad manifest CRUD and validation.
All manifest operations go through this script. Validation runs automatically
on every write. Prompts call this instead of touching JSON directly.
Usage:
python3 scripts/manifest.py create <skill-path> [options]
python3 scripts/manifest.py add-capability <skill-path> [options]
python3 scripts/manifest.py update <skill-path> --set key=value [...]
python3 scripts/manifest.py remove-capability <skill-path> --name <name>
python3 scripts/manifest.py read <skill-path> [--capabilities|--capability <name>]
python3 scripts/manifest.py validate <skill-path>
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# dependencies = [
# "jsonschema>=4.0.0",
# ]
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
try:
from jsonschema import Draft7Validator
except ImportError:
print("Error: jsonschema required. Install with: pip install jsonschema", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
MANIFEST_FILENAME = "bmad-manifest.json"
SCHEMA_FILENAME = "bmad-manifest-schema.json"
def get_schema_path() -> Path:
"""Schema is co-located with this script."""
return Path(__file__).parent / SCHEMA_FILENAME
def get_manifest_path(skill_path: Path) -> Path:
return skill_path / MANIFEST_FILENAME
def load_schema() -> dict[str, Any]:
path = get_schema_path()
if not path.exists():
print(f"Error: Schema not found: {path}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
with path.open() as f:
return json.load(f)
def load_manifest(skill_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
path = get_manifest_path(skill_path)
if not path.exists():
return {}
with path.open() as f:
try:
return json.load(f)
except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
print(f"Error: Invalid JSON in {path}: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
def save_manifest(skill_path: Path, data: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
"""Save manifest after validation. Returns True if valid and saved."""
errors = validate(data)
if errors:
print(f"Validation failed with {len(errors)} error(s):", file=sys.stderr)
for err in errors:
print(f" [{err['path']}] {err['message']}", file=sys.stderr)
return False
path = get_manifest_path(skill_path)
path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
with path.open("w") as f:
json.dump(data, f, indent=2)
f.write("\n")
return True
def validate(data: dict[str, Any]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Validate manifest against schema. Returns list of errors."""
schema = load_schema()
validator = Draft7Validator(schema)
errors = []
for error in validator.iter_errors(data):
errors.append({
"path": ".".join(str(p) for p in error.path) if error.path else "root",
"message": error.message,
})
return errors
def validate_extras(data: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
"""Additional checks beyond schema validation."""
warnings = []
capabilities = data.get("capabilities", [])
if not capabilities:
warnings.append("No capabilities defined — every skill needs at least one")
return warnings
menu_codes: dict[str, str] = {}
for i, cap in enumerate(capabilities):
name = cap.get("name", f"<capability-{i}>")
# Duplicate menu-code check
mc = cap.get("menu-code", "")
if mc and mc in menu_codes:
warnings.append(f"Duplicate menu-code '{mc}' in '{menu_codes[mc]}' and '{name}'")
elif mc:
menu_codes[mc] = name
# Both prompt and skill-name
if "prompt" in cap and "skill-name" in cap:
warnings.append(f"Capability '{name}' has both 'prompt' and 'skill-name' — pick one")
return warnings
# --- Commands ---
def cmd_create(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
existing = load_manifest(skill_path)
if existing:
print(f"Error: Manifest already exists at {get_manifest_path(skill_path)}", file=sys.stderr)
print("Use 'update' to modify or delete the file first.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
data: dict[str, Any] = {}
if args.module_code:
data["module-code"] = args.module_code
if args.replaces_skill:
data["replaces-skill"] = args.replaces_skill
if args.persona:
data["persona"] = args.persona
if args.has_memory:
data["has-memory"] = True
data["capabilities"] = []
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Created {get_manifest_path(skill_path)}")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_add_capability(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found. Run 'create' first.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
capabilities = data.setdefault("capabilities", [])
# Check for duplicate name
for cap in capabilities:
if cap.get("name") == args.name:
print(f"Error: Capability '{args.name}' already exists. Use 'update' to modify.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
cap: dict[str, Any] = {
"name": args.name,
"menu-code": args.menu_code,
"description": args.description,
}
if args.supports_autonomous:
cap["supports-headless"] = True
if args.prompt:
cap["prompt"] = args.prompt
if args.skill_name:
cap["skill-name"] = args.skill_name
if args.phase_name:
cap["phase-name"] = args.phase_name
if args.after:
cap["after"] = args.after
if args.before:
cap["before"] = args.before
if args.is_required:
cap["is-required"] = True
if args.output_location:
cap["output-location"] = args.output_location
capabilities.append(cap)
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Added capability '{args.name}' [{args.menu_code}]")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_update(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found. Run 'create' first.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
# Parse --set key=value pairs
for pair in args.set:
if "=" not in pair:
print(f"Error: Invalid --set format '{pair}'. Use key=value.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
key, value = pair.split("=", 1)
# Handle boolean values
if value.lower() == "true":
value = True
elif value.lower() == "false":
value = False
# Handle capability updates: capability.name.field=value
if key.startswith("capability."):
parts = key.split(".", 2)
if len(parts) != 3:
print(f"Error: Capability update format: capability.<name>.<field>=<value>", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
cap_name, field = parts[1], parts[2]
found = False
for cap in data.get("capabilities", []):
if cap.get("name") == cap_name:
cap[field] = value
found = True
break
if not found:
print(f"Error: Capability '{cap_name}' not found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
else:
# Handle removing fields with empty value
if value == "":
data.pop(key, None)
else:
data[key] = value
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Updated {get_manifest_path(skill_path)}")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_remove_capability(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
capabilities = data.get("capabilities", [])
original_len = len(capabilities)
data["capabilities"] = [c for c in capabilities if c.get("name") != args.name]
if len(data["capabilities"]) == original_len:
print(f"Error: Capability '{args.name}' not found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Removed capability '{args.name}'")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_read(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if args.capabilities:
caps = data.get("capabilities", [])
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(caps, indent=2))
else:
for cap in caps:
prompt_or_skill = cap.get("prompt", cap.get("skill-name", "(SKILL.md)"))
auto = " [autonomous]" if cap.get("supports-headless") else ""
print(f" [{cap.get('menu-code', '??')}] {cap['name']} — {cap.get('description', '')}{auto}")
print(f" → {prompt_or_skill}")
return 0
if args.capability:
for cap in data.get("capabilities", []):
if cap.get("name") == args.capability:
print(json.dumps(cap, indent=2))
return 0
print(f"Error: Capability '{args.capability}' not found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
else:
# Summary view
is_agent = "persona" in data
print(f"Type: {'Agent' if is_agent else 'Workflow/Skill'}")
if data.get("module-code"):
print(f"Module: {data['module-code']}")
if is_agent:
print(f"Persona: {data['persona'][:80]}...")
if data.get("has-memory"):
print("Memory: enabled")
caps = data.get("capabilities", [])
print(f"Capabilities: {len(caps)}")
for cap in caps:
prompt_or_skill = cap.get("prompt", cap.get("skill-name", "(SKILL.md)"))
auto = " [autonomous]" if cap.get("supports-headless") else ""
print(f" [{cap.get('menu-code', '??')}] {cap['name']}{auto} → {prompt_or_skill}")
return 0
def cmd_validate(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
errors = validate(data)
warnings = validate_extras(data)
if args.json:
print(json.dumps({
"valid": len(errors) == 0,
"errors": errors,
"warnings": warnings,
}, indent=2))
else:
if not errors:
print("✓ Manifest is valid")
else:
print(f"✗ {len(errors)} error(s):", file=sys.stderr)
for err in errors:
print(f" [{err['path']}] {err['message']}", file=sys.stderr)
if warnings:
print(f"\n⚠ {len(warnings)} warning(s):", file=sys.stderr)
for w in warnings:
print(f" {w}", file=sys.stderr)
return 0 if not errors else 1
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="BMad manifest CRUD and validation",
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
)
sub = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
# create
p_create = sub.add_parser("create", help="Create a new manifest")
p_create.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_create.add_argument("--module-code", type=str)
p_create.add_argument("--replaces-skill", type=str)
p_create.add_argument("--persona", type=str)
p_create.add_argument("--has-memory", action="store_true")
# add-capability
p_add = sub.add_parser("add-capability", help="Add a capability")
p_add.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_add.add_argument("--name", required=True, type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--menu-code", required=True, type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--description", required=True, type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--supports-autonomous", action="store_true")
p_add.add_argument("--prompt", type=str, help="Relative path to prompt file")
p_add.add_argument("--skill-name", type=str, help="External skill name")
p_add.add_argument("--phase-name", type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--after", nargs="*", help="Skill names that should run before this")
p_add.add_argument("--before", nargs="*", help="Skill names this should run before")
p_add.add_argument("--is-required", action="store_true")
p_add.add_argument("--output-location", type=str)
# update
p_update = sub.add_parser("update", help="Update manifest fields")
p_update.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_update.add_argument("--set", nargs="+", required=True, help="key=value pairs")
# remove-capability
p_remove = sub.add_parser("remove-capability", help="Remove a capability")
p_remove.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_remove.add_argument("--name", required=True, type=str)
# read
p_read = sub.add_parser("read", help="Read manifest")
p_read.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_read.add_argument("--capabilities", action="store_true", help="List capabilities only")
p_read.add_argument("--capability", type=str, help="Show specific capability")
p_read.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="JSON output")
# validate
p_validate = sub.add_parser("validate", help="Validate manifest")
p_validate.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_validate.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="JSON output")
args = parser.parse_args()
commands = {
"create": cmd_create,
"add-capability": cmd_add_capability,
"update": cmd_update,
"remove-capability": cmd_remove_capability,
"read": cmd_read,
"validate": cmd_validate,
}
return commands[args.command](args)
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic pre-pass for execution efficiency scanner (agent builder).
Extracts dependency graph data and execution patterns from a BMad agent skill
so the LLM scanner can evaluate efficiency from compact structured data.
Covers:
- Dependency graph from bmad-manifest.json (bmad-requires, bmad-prefer-after)
- Circular dependency detection
- Transitive dependency redundancy
- Parallelizable stage groups (independent nodes)
- Sequential pattern detection in prompts (numbered Read/Grep/Glob steps)
- Subagent-from-subagent detection
- Loop patterns (read all, analyze each, for each file)
- Memory loading pattern detection (load all memory, read all sidecar, etc.)
- Multi-source operation detection
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
def detect_cycles(graph: dict[str, list[str]]) -> list[list[str]]:
"""Detect circular dependencies in a directed graph using DFS."""
cycles = []
visited = set()
path = []
path_set = set()
def dfs(node: str) -> None:
if node in path_set:
cycle_start = path.index(node)
cycles.append(path[cycle_start:] + [node])
return
if node in visited:
return
visited.add(node)
path.append(node)
path_set.add(node)
for neighbor in graph.get(node, []):
dfs(neighbor)
path.pop()
path_set.discard(node)
for node in graph:
dfs(node)
return cycles
def find_transitive_redundancy(graph: dict[str, list[str]]) -> list[dict]:
"""Find cases where A declares dependency on C, but A->B->C already exists."""
redundancies = []
def get_transitive(node: str, visited: set | None = None) -> set[str]:
if visited is None:
visited = set()
for dep in graph.get(node, []):
if dep not in visited:
visited.add(dep)
get_transitive(dep, visited)
return visited
for node, direct_deps in graph.items():
for dep in direct_deps:
# Check if dep is reachable through other direct deps
other_deps = [d for d in direct_deps if d != dep]
for other in other_deps:
transitive = get_transitive(other)
if dep in transitive:
redundancies.append({
'node': node,
'redundant_dep': dep,
'already_via': other,
'issue': f'"{node}" declares "{dep}" as dependency, but already reachable via "{other}"',
})
return redundancies
def find_parallel_groups(graph: dict[str, list[str]], all_nodes: set[str]) -> list[list[str]]:
"""Find groups of nodes that have no dependencies on each other (can run in parallel)."""
independent_groups = []
# Simple approach: find all nodes at each "level" of the DAG
remaining = set(all_nodes)
while remaining:
# Nodes whose dependencies are all satisfied (not in remaining)
ready = set()
for node in remaining:
deps = set(graph.get(node, []))
if not deps & remaining:
ready.add(node)
if not ready:
break # Circular dependency, can't proceed
if len(ready) > 1:
independent_groups.append(sorted(ready))
remaining -= ready
return independent_groups
def scan_sequential_patterns(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Detect sequential operation patterns that could be parallel."""
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
patterns = []
# Sequential numbered steps with Read/Grep/Glob
tool_steps = re.findall(
r'^\s*\d+\.\s+.*?\b(Read|Grep|Glob|read|grep|glob)\b.*$',
content, re.MULTILINE
)
if len(tool_steps) >= 3:
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': 'sequential-tool-calls',
'count': len(tool_steps),
'issue': f'{len(tool_steps)} sequential tool call steps found — check if independent calls can be parallel',
})
# "Read all files" / "for each" loop patterns
loop_patterns = [
(r'[Rr]ead all (?:files|documents|prompts)', 'read-all'),
(r'[Ff]or each (?:file|document|prompt|stage)', 'for-each-loop'),
(r'[Aa]nalyze each', 'analyze-each'),
(r'[Ss]can (?:through|all|each)', 'scan-all'),
(r'[Rr]eview (?:all|each)', 'review-all'),
]
for pattern, ptype in loop_patterns:
matches = re.findall(pattern, content)
if matches:
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': ptype,
'count': len(matches),
'issue': f'"{matches[0]}" pattern found — consider parallel subagent delegation',
})
# Memory loading patterns (agent-specific)
memory_loading_patterns = [
(r'[Ll]oad all (?:memory|memories)', 'load-all-memory'),
(r'[Rr]ead all sidecar (?:files|data)', 'read-all-sidecar'),
(r'[Ll]oad (?:entire|full|complete) sidecar', 'load-entire-sidecar'),
(r'[Ll]oad all (?:context|state)', 'load-all-context'),
(r'[Rr]ead (?:entire|full|complete) memory', 'read-entire-memory'),
]
for pattern, ptype in memory_loading_patterns:
matches = re.findall(pattern, content)
if matches:
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': ptype,
'count': len(matches),
'issue': f'"{matches[0]}" pattern found — bulk memory loading is expensive, load specific paths',
})
# Multi-source operation detection (agent-specific)
multi_source_patterns = [
(r'[Rr]ead all\b', 'multi-source-read-all'),
(r'[Aa]nalyze each\b', 'multi-source-analyze-each'),
(r'[Ff]or each file\b', 'multi-source-for-each-file'),
]
for pattern, ptype in multi_source_patterns:
matches = re.findall(pattern, content)
if matches:
# Only add if not already captured by loop_patterns above
existing_types = {p['type'] for p in patterns}
if ptype not in existing_types:
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': ptype,
'count': len(matches),
'issue': f'"{matches[0]}" pattern found — multi-source operation may be parallelizable',
})
# Subagent spawning from subagent (impossible)
if re.search(r'(?i)spawn.*subagent|launch.*subagent|create.*subagent', content):
# Check if this file IS a subagent (quality-scan-* or report-* files at root)
if re.match(r'(?:quality-scan-|report-)', rel_path):
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': 'subagent-chain-violation',
'count': 1,
'issue': 'Subagent file references spawning other subagents — subagents cannot spawn subagents',
})
return patterns
def scan_execution_deps(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Run all deterministic execution efficiency checks."""
# Parse bmad-manifest.json for dependency graph
dep_graph: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
prefer_after: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
all_stages: set[str] = set()
manifest_found = False
manifest_path = skill_path / 'bmad-manifest.json'
if manifest_path.exists():
manifest_found = True
try:
data = json.loads(manifest_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
if isinstance(data, dict):
# Parse capabilities for dependency info
capabilities = data.get('capabilities', [])
if isinstance(capabilities, list):
for cap in capabilities:
if isinstance(cap, dict):
name = cap.get('name')
if name:
all_stages.add(name)
dep_graph[name] = cap.get('bmad-requires', []) or []
prefer_after[name] = cap.get('bmad-prefer-after', []) or []
# Also check top-level dependencies
top_name = data.get('name')
if top_name and top_name not in all_stages:
all_stages.add(top_name)
top_requires = data.get('bmad-requires', []) or []
top_prefer = data.get('bmad-prefer-after', []) or []
if top_requires or top_prefer:
dep_graph[top_name] = top_requires
prefer_after[top_name] = top_prefer
except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError):
pass
# Also check for stage-level manifests or stage definitions in SKILL.md
prompts_dir = skill_path / 'prompts'
if prompts_dir.exists():
for f in sorted(prompts_dir.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md':
all_stages.add(f.stem)
# Cycle detection
cycles = detect_cycles(dep_graph)
# Transitive redundancy
redundancies = find_transitive_redundancy(dep_graph)
# Parallel groups
parallel_groups = find_parallel_groups(dep_graph, all_stages)
# Sequential pattern detection across all prompt and agent files
sequential_patterns = []
for scan_dir in ['prompts', 'agents']:
d = skill_path / scan_dir
if d.exists():
for f in sorted(d.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md':
patterns = scan_sequential_patterns(f, f'{scan_dir}/{f.name}')
sequential_patterns.extend(patterns)
# Also scan SKILL.md
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if skill_md.exists():
sequential_patterns.extend(scan_sequential_patterns(skill_md, 'SKILL.md'))
# Build issues from deterministic findings
issues = []
for cycle in cycles:
issues.append({
'severity': 'critical',
'category': 'circular-dependency',
'issue': f'Circular dependency detected: {" → ".join(cycle)}',
})
for r in redundancies:
issues.append({
'severity': 'medium',
'category': 'dependency-bloat',
'issue': r['issue'],
})
for p in sequential_patterns:
if p['type'] == 'subagent-chain-violation':
severity = 'critical'
elif p['type'] in ('load-all-memory', 'read-all-sidecar', 'load-entire-sidecar',
'load-all-context', 'read-entire-memory'):
severity = 'high'
else:
severity = 'medium'
issues.append({
'file': p['file'],
'severity': severity,
'category': p['type'],
'issue': p['issue'],
})
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
for issue in issues:
sev = issue['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
status = 'pass'
if by_severity['critical'] > 0:
status = 'fail'
elif by_severity['high'] > 0 or by_severity['medium'] > 0:
status = 'warning'
return {
'scanner': 'execution-efficiency-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-execution-deps.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': status,
'dependency_graph': {
'manifest_found': manifest_found,
'stages': sorted(all_stages),
'hard_dependencies': dep_graph,
'soft_dependencies': prefer_after,
'cycles': cycles,
'transitive_redundancies': redundancies,
'parallel_groups': parallel_groups,
},
'sequential_patterns': sequential_patterns,
'issues': issues,
'summary': {
'total_issues': len(issues),
'by_severity': by_severity,
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Extract execution dependency graph and patterns for LLM scanner pre-pass (agent builder)',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_execution_deps(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic pre-pass for prompt craft scanner (agent builder).
Extracts metrics and flagged patterns from SKILL.md and prompt files
so the LLM scanner can work from compact data instead of reading raw files.
Covers:
- SKILL.md line count and section inventory
- Overview section size
- Inline data detection (tables, fenced code blocks)
- Defensive padding pattern grep
- Meta-explanation pattern grep
- Back-reference detection ("as described above")
- Config header and progression condition presence per prompt
- File-level token estimates (chars / 4 rough approximation)
- Prompt frontmatter validation (name, description, menu-code)
- Manifest alignment check (frontmatter vs bmad-manifest.json entries)
- Wall-of-text detection
- Suggestive loading grep
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# Defensive padding / filler patterns
WASTE_PATTERNS = [
(r'\b[Mm]ake sure (?:to|you)\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "make sure to/you"'),
(r"\b[Dd]on'?t forget (?:to|that)\b", 'defensive-padding', "Defensive: \"don't forget\""),
(r'\b[Rr]emember (?:to|that)\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "remember to/that"'),
(r'\b[Bb]e sure to\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "be sure to"'),
(r'\b[Pp]lease ensure\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "please ensure"'),
(r'\b[Ii]t is important (?:to|that)\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "it is important"'),
(r'\b[Yy]ou are an AI\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "you are an AI"'),
(r'\b[Aa]s a language model\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "as a language model"'),
(r'\b[Aa]s an AI assistant\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "as an AI assistant"'),
(r'\b[Tt]his (?:workflow|skill|process) is designed to\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "this workflow is designed to"'),
(r'\b[Tt]he purpose of this (?:section|step) is\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "the purpose of this section is"'),
(r"\b[Ll]et'?s (?:think about|begin|start)\b", 'filler', "Filler: \"let's think/begin\""),
(r'\b[Nn]ow we(?:\'ll| will)\b', 'filler', "Filler: \"now we'll\""),
]
# Back-reference patterns (self-containment risk)
BACKREF_PATTERNS = [
(r'\bas described above\b', 'Back-reference: "as described above"'),
(r'\bper the overview\b', 'Back-reference: "per the overview"'),
(r'\bas mentioned (?:above|in|earlier)\b', 'Back-reference: "as mentioned above/in/earlier"'),
(r'\bsee (?:above|the overview)\b', 'Back-reference: "see above/the overview"'),
(r'\brefer to (?:the )?(?:above|overview|SKILL)\b', 'Back-reference: "refer to above/overview"'),
]
# Suggestive loading patterns
SUGGESTIVE_LOADING_PATTERNS = [
(r'\b[Ll]oad (?:the |all )?(?:relevant|necessary|needed|required)\b', 'Suggestive loading: "load relevant/necessary"'),
(r'\b[Rr]ead (?:the |all )?(?:relevant|necessary|needed|required)\b', 'Suggestive loading: "read relevant/necessary"'),
(r'\b[Gg]ather (?:the |all )?(?:relevant|necessary|needed)\b', 'Suggestive loading: "gather relevant/necessary"'),
]
def count_tables(content: str) -> tuple[int, int]:
"""Count markdown tables and their total lines."""
table_count = 0
table_lines = 0
in_table = False
for line in content.split('\n'):
if '|' in line and re.match(r'^\s*\|', line):
if not in_table:
table_count += 1
in_table = True
table_lines += 1
else:
in_table = False
return table_count, table_lines
def count_fenced_blocks(content: str) -> tuple[int, int]:
"""Count fenced code blocks and their total lines."""
block_count = 0
block_lines = 0
in_block = False
for line in content.split('\n'):
if line.strip().startswith('```'):
if in_block:
in_block = False
else:
in_block = True
block_count += 1
elif in_block:
block_lines += 1
return block_count, block_lines
def extract_overview_size(content: str) -> int:
"""Count lines in the ## Overview section."""
lines = content.split('\n')
in_overview = False
overview_lines = 0
for line in lines:
if re.match(r'^##\s+Overview\b', line):
in_overview = True
continue
elif in_overview and re.match(r'^##\s', line):
break
elif in_overview:
overview_lines += 1
return overview_lines
def detect_wall_of_text(content: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Detect long runs of text without headers or breaks."""
walls = []
lines = content.split('\n')
run_start = None
run_length = 0
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
stripped = line.strip()
is_break = (
not stripped
or re.match(r'^#{1,6}\s', stripped)
or re.match(r'^[-*]\s', stripped)
or re.match(r'^\d+\.\s', stripped)
or stripped.startswith('```')
or stripped.startswith('|')
)
if is_break:
if run_length >= 15:
walls.append({
'start_line': run_start,
'length': run_length,
})
run_start = None
run_length = 0
else:
if run_start is None:
run_start = i
run_length += 1
if run_length >= 15:
walls.append({
'start_line': run_start,
'length': run_length,
})
return walls
def parse_prompt_frontmatter(filepath: Path) -> dict:
"""Parse YAML frontmatter from a prompt file and validate."""
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
result = {
'has_frontmatter': False,
'fields': {},
'missing_fields': [],
}
fm_match = re.match(r'^---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n', content, re.DOTALL)
if not fm_match:
result['missing_fields'] = ['name', 'description', 'menu-code']
return result
result['has_frontmatter'] = True
try:
import yaml
fm = yaml.safe_load(fm_match.group(1))
except Exception:
# Fallback: simple key-value parsing
fm = {}
for line in fm_match.group(1).split('\n'):
if ':' in line:
key, _, val = line.partition(':')
fm[key.strip()] = val.strip()
if not isinstance(fm, dict):
result['missing_fields'] = ['name', 'description', 'menu-code']
return result
expected_fields = ['name', 'description', 'menu-code']
for field in expected_fields:
if field in fm:
result['fields'][field] = fm[field]
else:
result['missing_fields'].append(field)
return result
def check_manifest_alignment(skill_path: Path, prompt_frontmatters: dict[str, dict]) -> dict:
"""Compare prompt frontmatter against bmad-manifest.json entries."""
alignment = {
'manifest_found': False,
'mismatches': [],
'manifest_only': [],
'prompt_only': [],
}
manifest_path = skill_path / 'bmad-manifest.json'
if not manifest_path.exists():
return alignment
try:
data = json.loads(manifest_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError):
return alignment
alignment['manifest_found'] = True
capabilities = data.get('capabilities', [])
if not isinstance(capabilities, list):
return alignment
# Build manifest lookup by name
manifest_caps = {}
for cap in capabilities:
if isinstance(cap, dict) and cap.get('name'):
manifest_caps[cap['name']] = cap
# Compare
prompt_names = set(prompt_frontmatters.keys())
manifest_names = set(manifest_caps.keys())
alignment['manifest_only'] = sorted(manifest_names - prompt_names)
alignment['prompt_only'] = sorted(prompt_names - manifest_names)
# Check field mismatches for overlapping entries
for name in sorted(prompt_names & manifest_names):
pfm = prompt_frontmatters[name]
mcap = manifest_caps[name]
issues = []
# Compare name field
pfm_name = pfm.get('fields', {}).get('name')
if pfm_name and pfm_name != mcap.get('name'):
issues.append(f'name mismatch: frontmatter="{pfm_name}" manifest="{mcap.get("name")}"')
# Compare menu-code
pfm_mc = pfm.get('fields', {}).get('menu-code')
mcap_mc = mcap.get('menu-code')
if pfm_mc and mcap_mc and pfm_mc != mcap_mc:
issues.append(f'menu-code mismatch: frontmatter="{pfm_mc}" manifest="{mcap_mc}"')
if issues:
alignment['mismatches'].append({
'name': name,
'issues': issues,
})
return alignment
def scan_file_patterns(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> dict:
"""Extract metrics and pattern matches from a single file."""
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# Token estimate (rough: chars / 4)
token_estimate = len(content) // 4
# Section inventory
sections = []
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = re.match(r'^(#{2,3})\s+(.+)$', line)
if m:
sections.append({'level': len(m.group(1)), 'title': m.group(2).strip(), 'line': i})
# Tables and code blocks
table_count, table_lines = count_tables(content)
block_count, block_lines = count_fenced_blocks(content)
# Pattern matches
waste_matches = []
for pattern, category, label in WASTE_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
waste_matches.append({
'line': line_num,
'category': category,
'pattern': label,
'context': lines[line_num - 1].strip()[:100],
})
backref_matches = []
for pattern, label in BACKREF_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
backref_matches.append({
'line': line_num,
'pattern': label,
'context': lines[line_num - 1].strip()[:100],
})
# Suggestive loading
suggestive_loading = []
for pattern, label in SUGGESTIVE_LOADING_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
suggestive_loading.append({
'line': line_num,
'pattern': label,
'context': lines[line_num - 1].strip()[:100],
})
# Config header
has_config_header = '{communication_language}' in content or '{document_output_language}' in content
# Progression condition
prog_keywords = ['progress', 'advance', 'move to', 'next stage',
'when complete', 'proceed to', 'transition', 'completion criteria']
has_progression = any(kw in content.lower() for kw in prog_keywords)
# Wall-of-text detection
walls = detect_wall_of_text(content)
result = {
'file': rel_path,
'line_count': line_count,
'token_estimate': token_estimate,
'sections': sections,
'table_count': table_count,
'table_lines': table_lines,
'fenced_block_count': block_count,
'fenced_block_lines': block_lines,
'waste_patterns': waste_matches,
'back_references': backref_matches,
'suggestive_loading': suggestive_loading,
'has_config_header': has_config_header,
'has_progression': has_progression,
'wall_of_text': walls,
}
return result
def scan_prompt_metrics(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Extract metrics from all prompt-relevant files."""
files_data = []
# SKILL.md
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if skill_md.exists():
data = scan_file_patterns(skill_md, 'SKILL.md')
content = skill_md.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
data['overview_lines'] = extract_overview_size(content)
data['is_skill_md'] = True
files_data.append(data)
# Prompt files at skill root — also extract frontmatter
prompt_frontmatters: dict[str, dict] = {}
skip_files = {'SKILL.md', 'bmad-manifest.json', 'bmad-skill-manifest.yaml'}
for f in sorted(skill_path.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name not in skip_files and f.name != 'SKILL.md':
data = scan_file_patterns(f, f.name)
data['is_skill_md'] = False
# Parse prompt frontmatter
pfm = parse_prompt_frontmatter(f)
data['prompt_frontmatter'] = pfm
# Use stem as key for manifest alignment
prompt_name = pfm.get('fields', {}).get('name', f.stem)
prompt_frontmatters[prompt_name] = pfm
files_data.append(data)
# Resources (just sizes, for progressive disclosure assessment)
resources_dir = skill_path / 'resources'
resource_sizes = {}
if resources_dir.exists():
for f in sorted(resources_dir.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix in ('.md', '.json', '.yaml', '.yml'):
content = f.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
resource_sizes[f.name] = {
'lines': len(content.split('\n')),
'tokens': len(content) // 4,
}
# Manifest alignment
manifest_alignment = check_manifest_alignment(skill_path, prompt_frontmatters)
# Aggregate stats
total_waste = sum(len(f['waste_patterns']) for f in files_data)
total_backrefs = sum(len(f['back_references']) for f in files_data)
total_suggestive = sum(len(f.get('suggestive_loading', [])) for f in files_data)
total_tokens = sum(f['token_estimate'] for f in files_data)
total_walls = sum(len(f.get('wall_of_text', [])) for f in files_data)
prompts_with_config = sum(1 for f in files_data if not f.get('is_skill_md') and f['has_config_header'])
prompts_with_progression = sum(1 for f in files_data if not f.get('is_skill_md') and f['has_progression'])
total_prompts = sum(1 for f in files_data if not f.get('is_skill_md'))
skill_md_data = next((f for f in files_data if f.get('is_skill_md')), None)
return {
'scanner': 'prompt-craft-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-prompt-metrics.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': 'info',
'skill_md_summary': {
'line_count': skill_md_data['line_count'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'token_estimate': skill_md_data['token_estimate'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'overview_lines': skill_md_data.get('overview_lines', 0) if skill_md_data else 0,
'table_count': skill_md_data['table_count'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'table_lines': skill_md_data['table_lines'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'fenced_block_count': skill_md_data['fenced_block_count'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'fenced_block_lines': skill_md_data['fenced_block_lines'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'section_count': len(skill_md_data['sections']) if skill_md_data else 0,
},
'prompt_health': {
'total_prompts': total_prompts,
'prompts_with_config_header': prompts_with_config,
'prompts_with_progression': prompts_with_progression,
},
'aggregate': {
'total_files_scanned': len(files_data),
'total_token_estimate': total_tokens,
'total_waste_patterns': total_waste,
'total_back_references': total_backrefs,
'total_suggestive_loading': total_suggestive,
'total_wall_of_text': total_walls,
},
'resource_sizes': resource_sizes,
'manifest_alignment': manifest_alignment,
'files': files_data,
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Extract prompt craft metrics for LLM scanner pre-pass (agent builder)',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_prompt_metrics(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic pre-pass for agent structure and capabilities scanner.
Extracts structural metadata from a BMad agent skill that the LLM scanner
can use instead of reading all files itself. Covers:
- Frontmatter parsing and validation
- Section inventory (H2/H3 headers)
- Template artifact detection
- Agent name validation (bmad-{code}-agent-{name} or bmad-agent-{name})
- Required agent sections (Overview, Identity, Communication Style, Principles, On Activation)
- bmad-manifest.json validation (persona field for agent detection, capabilities)
- Capability cross-referencing with prompt files at skill root
- Memory path consistency checking
- Language/directness pattern grep
- On Exit / Exiting section detection (invalid)
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# dependencies = [
# "pyyaml>=6.0",
# ]
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
try:
import yaml
except ImportError:
print("Error: pyyaml required. Run with: uv run prepass-structure-capabilities.py", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
# Template artifacts that should NOT appear in finalized skills
TEMPLATE_ARTIFACTS = [
r'\{if-complex-workflow\}', r'\{/if-complex-workflow\}',
r'\{if-simple-workflow\}', r'\{/if-simple-workflow\}',
r'\{if-simple-utility\}', r'\{/if-simple-utility\}',
r'\{if-module\}', r'\{/if-module\}',
r'\{if-headless\}', r'\{/if-headless\}',
r'\{if-autonomous\}', r'\{/if-autonomous\}',
r'\{if-sidecar\}', r'\{/if-sidecar\}',
r'\{displayName\}', r'\{skillName\}',
]
# Runtime variables that ARE expected (not artifacts)
RUNTIME_VARS = {
'{user_name}', '{communication_language}', '{document_output_language}',
'{project-root}', '{output_folder}', '{planning_artifacts}',
'{headless_mode}',
}
# Directness anti-patterns
DIRECTNESS_PATTERNS = [
(r'\byou should\b', 'Suggestive "you should" — use direct imperative'),
(r'\bplease\b(?! note)', 'Polite "please" — use direct imperative'),
(r'\bhandle appropriately\b', 'Ambiguous "handle appropriately" — specify how'),
(r'\bwhen ready\b', 'Vague "when ready" — specify testable condition'),
]
# Invalid sections
INVALID_SECTIONS = [
(r'^##\s+On\s+Exit\b', 'On Exit section found — no exit hooks exist in the system, this will never run'),
(r'^##\s+Exiting\b', 'Exiting section found — no exit hooks exist in the system, this will never run'),
]
def parse_frontmatter(content: str) -> tuple[dict | None, list[dict]]:
"""Parse YAML frontmatter and validate."""
findings = []
fm_match = re.match(r'^---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n', content, re.DOTALL)
if not fm_match:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'No YAML frontmatter found',
})
return None, findings
try:
fm = yaml.safe_load(fm_match.group(1))
except yaml.YAMLError as e:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Invalid YAML frontmatter: {e}',
})
return None, findings
if not isinstance(fm, dict):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Frontmatter is not a YAML mapping',
})
return None, findings
# name check
name = fm.get('name')
if not name:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Missing "name" field in frontmatter',
})
elif not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Name "{name}" is not kebab-case',
})
elif not (re.match(r'^bmad-[a-z0-9]+-agent-[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name)
or re.match(r'^bmad-agent-[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name)):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Name "{name}" does not follow bmad-{{code}}-agent-{{name}} or bmad-agent-{{name}} pattern',
})
# description check
desc = fm.get('description')
if not desc:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Missing "description" field in frontmatter',
})
elif 'Use when' not in desc and 'use when' not in desc:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Description missing "Use when..." trigger phrase',
})
# Extra fields check — only name and description allowed for agents
allowed = {'name', 'description'}
extra = set(fm.keys()) - allowed
if extra:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Extra frontmatter fields: {", ".join(sorted(extra))}',
})
return fm, findings
def extract_sections(content: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Extract all H2/H3 headers with line numbers."""
sections = []
for i, line in enumerate(content.split('\n'), 1):
m = re.match(r'^(#{2,3})\s+(.+)$', line)
if m:
sections.append({
'level': len(m.group(1)),
'title': m.group(2).strip(),
'line': i,
})
return sections
def check_required_sections(sections: list[dict]) -> list[dict]:
"""Check for required and invalid sections."""
findings = []
h2_titles = [s['title'] for s in sections if s['level'] == 2]
required = ['Overview', 'Identity', 'Communication Style', 'Principles', 'On Activation']
for req in required:
if req not in h2_titles:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'sections',
'issue': f'Missing ## {req} section',
})
# Invalid sections
for s in sections:
if s['level'] == 2:
for pattern, message in INVALID_SECTIONS:
if re.match(pattern, f"## {s['title']}"):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': s['line'],
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'invalid-section',
'issue': message,
})
return findings
def find_template_artifacts(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Scan for orphaned template substitution artifacts."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
for pattern in TEMPLATE_ARTIFACTS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content):
matched = m.group()
if matched in RUNTIME_VARS:
continue
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': line_num,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'artifacts',
'issue': f'Orphaned template artifact: {matched}',
'fix': 'Resolve or remove this template conditional/placeholder',
})
return findings
def validate_manifest(skill_path: Path) -> tuple[dict, list[dict]]:
"""Validate bmad-manifest.json for agent requirements."""
findings = []
validation = {
'found': False,
'valid_json': False,
'is_agent': False,
'has_capabilities': False,
'capability_count': 0,
'menu_codes': [],
'duplicate_menu_codes': [],
'capability_issues': [],
}
manifest_path = skill_path / 'bmad-manifest.json'
if not manifest_path.exists():
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': 'bmad-manifest.json not found at skill root',
})
return validation, findings
validation['found'] = True
try:
data = json.loads(manifest_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': f'Invalid JSON in bmad-manifest.json: {e}',
})
return validation, findings
validation['valid_json'] = True
# Check if this is an agent (agents have a persona field)
has_persona = 'persona' in data
validation['is_agent'] = has_persona
if not has_persona:
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': 'Missing "persona" field — agents are identified by having a persona field',
})
# Check capabilities
capabilities = data.get('capabilities')
if capabilities is None:
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': 'Missing "capabilities" field',
})
return validation, findings
if not isinstance(capabilities, list):
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': '"capabilities" is not an array',
})
return validation, findings
validation['has_capabilities'] = True
validation['capability_count'] = len(capabilities)
# Check each capability for required fields and unique menu codes
required_fields = {'name', 'menu-code', 'description'}
menu_codes = []
for i, cap in enumerate(capabilities):
if not isinstance(cap, dict):
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': f'Capability at index {i} is not an object',
})
continue
missing = required_fields - set(cap.keys())
if missing:
cap_name = cap.get('name', f'index-{i}')
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': f'Capability "{cap_name}" missing required fields: {", ".join(sorted(missing))}',
})
mc = cap.get('menu-code')
if mc:
menu_codes.append(mc)
validation['menu_codes'] = menu_codes
# Check for duplicate menu codes
seen = set()
dupes = set()
for mc in menu_codes:
if mc in seen:
dupes.add(mc)
seen.add(mc)
if dupes:
validation['duplicate_menu_codes'] = sorted(dupes)
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'manifest',
'issue': f'Duplicate menu codes: {", ".join(sorted(dupes))}',
})
return validation, findings
def cross_reference_capabilities(skill_path: Path) -> tuple[dict, list[dict]]:
"""Cross-reference manifest capabilities with prompt files."""
findings = []
crossref = {
'manifest_prompt_caps': [],
'missing_prompt_files': [],
'orphaned_prompt_files': [],
}
manifest_path = skill_path / 'bmad-manifest.json'
if not manifest_path.exists():
return crossref, findings
try:
data = json.loads(manifest_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError):
return crossref, findings
capabilities = data.get('capabilities', [])
if not isinstance(capabilities, list):
return crossref, findings
# Get prompt-type capabilities from manifest
prompt_cap_names = set()
for cap in capabilities:
if isinstance(cap, dict) and cap.get('type') == 'prompt':
name = cap.get('name')
if name:
prompt_cap_names.add(name)
crossref['manifest_prompt_caps'].append(name)
# Get actual prompt files (at skill root, excluding SKILL.md and non-prompt files)
actual_prompts = set()
skip_files = {'SKILL.md', 'bmad-manifest.json', 'bmad-skill-manifest.yaml'}
for f in skill_path.iterdir():
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name not in skip_files:
actual_prompts.add(f.stem)
# Missing prompt files (in manifest but no file)
missing = prompt_cap_names - actual_prompts
for name in sorted(missing):
crossref['missing_prompt_files'].append(name)
findings.append({
'file': 'bmad-manifest.json', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'capability-crossref',
'issue': f'Prompt capability "{name}" has no matching file {name}.md at skill root',
})
# Orphaned prompt files (file exists but not in manifest)
orphaned = actual_prompts - prompt_cap_names
for name in sorted(orphaned):
crossref['orphaned_prompt_files'].append(name)
findings.append({
'file': f'{name}.md', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'capability-crossref',
'issue': f'Prompt file {name}.md not referenced as a prompt capability in manifest',
})
return crossref, findings
def extract_memory_paths(skill_path: Path) -> tuple[list[str], list[dict]]:
"""Extract all memory path references across files and check consistency."""
findings = []
memory_paths = set()
# Memory path patterns
mem_pattern = re.compile(r'(?:memory/|sidecar/|\.memory/|\.sidecar/)[\w\-/]+(?:\.\w+)?')
files_to_scan = []
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if skill_md.exists():
files_to_scan.append(('SKILL.md', skill_md))
for subdir in ['prompts', 'resources']:
d = skill_path / subdir
if d.exists():
for f in sorted(d.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix in ('.md', '.json', '.yaml', '.yml'):
files_to_scan.append((f'{subdir}/{f.name}', f))
for rel_path, filepath in files_to_scan:
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
for m in mem_pattern.finditer(content):
memory_paths.add(m.group())
sorted_paths = sorted(memory_paths)
# Check for inconsistent formats (e.g., mixing memory/ and .memory/)
prefixes = set()
for p in sorted_paths:
prefix = p.split('/')[0]
prefixes.add(prefix)
memory_prefixes = {p for p in prefixes if 'memory' in p.lower()}
sidecar_prefixes = {p for p in prefixes if 'sidecar' in p.lower()}
if len(memory_prefixes) > 1:
findings.append({
'file': 'multiple', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'memory-paths',
'issue': f'Inconsistent memory path prefixes: {", ".join(sorted(memory_prefixes))}',
})
if len(sidecar_prefixes) > 1:
findings.append({
'file': 'multiple', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'memory-paths',
'issue': f'Inconsistent sidecar path prefixes: {", ".join(sorted(sidecar_prefixes))}',
})
return sorted_paths, findings
def check_prompt_basics(skill_path: Path) -> tuple[list[dict], list[dict]]:
"""Check each prompt file for config header and progression conditions."""
findings = []
prompt_details = []
skip_files = {'SKILL.md', 'bmad-manifest.json', 'bmad-skill-manifest.yaml'}
prompt_files = [f for f in sorted(skill_path.iterdir())
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name not in skip_files]
if not prompt_files:
return prompt_details, findings
for f in prompt_files:
content = f.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
rel_path = f.name
detail = {'file': f.name, 'has_config_header': False, 'has_progression': False}
# Config header check
if '{communication_language}' in content or '{document_output_language}' in content:
detail['has_config_header'] = True
else:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'config-header',
'issue': 'No config header with language variables found',
})
# Progression condition check
lower = content.lower()
prog_keywords = ['progress', 'advance', 'move to', 'next stage', 'when complete',
'proceed to', 'transition', 'completion criteria']
if any(kw in lower for kw in prog_keywords):
detail['has_progression'] = True
else:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': len(content.split('\n')),
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'progression',
'issue': 'No progression condition keywords found',
})
# Directness checks
for pattern, message in DIRECTNESS_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': line_num,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'language',
'issue': message,
})
# Template artifacts
findings.extend(find_template_artifacts(f, rel_path))
prompt_details.append(detail)
return prompt_details, findings
def scan_structure_capabilities(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Run all deterministic agent structure and capability checks."""
all_findings = []
# Read SKILL.md
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if not skill_md.exists():
return {
'scanner': 'structure-capabilities-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-structure-capabilities.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': 'fail',
'issues': [{'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1, 'severity': 'critical',
'category': 'missing-file', 'issue': 'SKILL.md does not exist'}],
'summary': {'total_issues': 1, 'by_severity': {'critical': 1, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}},
}
skill_content = skill_md.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# Frontmatter
frontmatter, fm_findings = parse_frontmatter(skill_content)
all_findings.extend(fm_findings)
# Sections
sections = extract_sections(skill_content)
section_findings = check_required_sections(sections)
all_findings.extend(section_findings)
# Template artifacts in SKILL.md
all_findings.extend(find_template_artifacts(skill_md, 'SKILL.md'))
# Directness checks in SKILL.md
for pattern, message in DIRECTNESS_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, skill_content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = skill_content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
all_findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': line_num,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'language',
'issue': message,
})
# Manifest validation
manifest_validation, manifest_findings = validate_manifest(skill_path)
all_findings.extend(manifest_findings)
has_manifest = manifest_validation['found']
# Capability cross-reference
capability_crossref, crossref_findings = cross_reference_capabilities(skill_path)
all_findings.extend(crossref_findings)
# Memory path consistency
memory_paths, memory_findings = extract_memory_paths(skill_path)
all_findings.extend(memory_findings)
# Prompt basics
prompt_details, prompt_findings = check_prompt_basics(skill_path)
all_findings.extend(prompt_findings)
# Build severity summary
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
for f in all_findings:
sev = f['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
status = 'pass'
if by_severity['critical'] > 0:
status = 'fail'
elif by_severity['high'] > 0:
status = 'warning'
return {
'scanner': 'structure-capabilities-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-structure-capabilities.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': status,
'metadata': {
'frontmatter': frontmatter,
'sections': sections,
'has_manifest': has_manifest,
'manifest_validation': manifest_validation,
'capability_crossref': capability_crossref,
},
'prompt_details': prompt_details,
'memory_paths': memory_paths,
'issues': all_findings,
'summary': {
'total_issues': len(all_findings),
'by_severity': by_severity,
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Deterministic pre-pass for agent structure and capabilities scanning',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_structure_capabilities(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0 if result['status'] == 'pass' else 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic path standards scanner for BMad skills.
Validates all .md and .json files against BMad path conventions:
1. {project-root} only valid before /_bmad
2. Bare _bmad references must have {project-root} prefix
3. Config variables used directly (no double-prefix)
4. No ./ or ../ relative prefixes
5. No absolute paths
6. Memory paths must use {project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# Patterns to detect
# {project-root} NOT followed by /_bmad
PROJECT_ROOT_NOT_BMAD_RE = re.compile(r'\{project-root\}/(?!_bmad)')
# Bare _bmad without {project-root} prefix — match _bmad at word boundary
# but not when preceded by {project-root}/
BARE_BMAD_RE = re.compile(r'(?<!\{project-root\}/)_bmad[/\s]')
# Absolute paths
ABSOLUTE_PATH_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(/(?:Users|home|opt|var|tmp|etc|usr)/\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
HOME_PATH_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(~/\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
# Relative prefixes
RELATIVE_DOT_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(\.\./\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
RELATIVE_DOTSLASH_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(\./\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
# Memory path pattern: should use {project-root}/_bmad/_memory/
MEMORY_PATH_RE = re.compile(r'_bmad/_memory/\S+')
VALID_MEMORY_PATH_RE = re.compile(r'\{project-root\}/_bmad/_memory/\S+-sidecar/')
# Fenced code block detection (to skip examples showing wrong patterns)
FENCE_RE = re.compile(r'^```', re.MULTILINE)
def is_in_fenced_block(content: str, pos: int) -> bool:
"""Check if a position is inside a fenced code block."""
fences = [m.start() for m in FENCE_RE.finditer(content[:pos])]
# Odd number of fences before pos means we're inside a block
return len(fences) % 2 == 1
def get_line_number(content: str, pos: int) -> int:
"""Get 1-based line number for a position in content."""
return content[:pos].count('\n') + 1
def scan_file(filepath: Path, skip_fenced: bool = True) -> list[dict]:
"""Scan a single file for path standard violations."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
rel_path = filepath.name
checks = [
(PROJECT_ROOT_NOT_BMAD_RE, 'project-root-not-bmad', 'critical',
'{project-root} used for non-_bmad path — only valid use is {project-root}/_bmad/...'),
(ABSOLUTE_PATH_RE, 'absolute-path', 'high',
'Absolute path found — not portable across machines'),
(HOME_PATH_RE, 'absolute-path', 'high',
'Home directory path (~/) found — environment-specific'),
(RELATIVE_DOT_RE, 'relative-prefix', 'medium',
'Parent directory reference (../) found — fragile, breaks with reorganization'),
(RELATIVE_DOTSLASH_RE, 'relative-prefix', 'medium',
'Relative prefix (./) found — breaks when execution directory changes'),
]
for pattern, category, severity, message in checks:
for match in pattern.finditer(content):
pos = match.start()
if skip_fenced and is_in_fenced_block(content, pos):
continue
line_num = get_line_number(content, pos)
line_content = content.split('\n')[line_num - 1].strip()
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': line_num,
'severity': severity,
'category': category,
'title': message,
'detail': line_content[:120],
'action': '',
})
# Bare _bmad check — more nuanced, need to avoid false positives
# inside {project-root}/_bmad which is correct
for match in BARE_BMAD_RE.finditer(content):
pos = match.start()
if skip_fenced and is_in_fenced_block(content, pos):
continue
# Check that this isn't part of {project-root}/_bmad
# The negative lookbehind handles this, but double-check
# the broader context
start = max(0, pos - 30)
before = content[start:pos]
if '{project-root}/' in before:
continue
line_num = get_line_number(content, pos)
line_content = content.split('\n')[line_num - 1].strip()
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': line_num,
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'bare-bmad',
'title': 'Bare _bmad reference without {project-root} prefix',
'detail': line_content[:120],
'action': '',
})
# Memory path check — memory paths should use {project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/
for match in MEMORY_PATH_RE.finditer(content):
pos = match.start()
if skip_fenced and is_in_fenced_block(content, pos):
continue
# Check if properly prefixed
start = max(0, pos - 20)
before = content[start:pos]
matched_text = match.group()
if '{project-root}/' not in before:
line_num = get_line_number(content, pos)
line_content = content.split('\n')[line_num - 1].strip()
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': line_num,
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'memory-path',
'title': 'Memory path missing {project-root} prefix — use {project-root}/_bmad/_memory/',
'detail': line_content[:120],
'action': '',
})
elif '-sidecar/' not in matched_text:
line_num = get_line_number(content, pos)
line_content = content.split('\n')[line_num - 1].strip()
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': line_num,
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'memory-path',
'title': 'Memory path not using {skillName}-sidecar/ convention',
'detail': line_content[:120],
'action': '',
})
return findings
def scan_skill(skill_path: Path, skip_fenced: bool = True) -> dict:
"""Scan all .md and .json files in a skill directory."""
all_findings = []
# Find all .md and .json files
md_files = sorted(list(skill_path.rglob('*.md')) + list(skill_path.rglob('*.json')))
if not md_files:
print(f"Warning: No .md or .json files found in {skill_path}", file=sys.stderr)
files_scanned = []
for md_file in md_files:
rel = md_file.relative_to(skill_path)
files_scanned.append(str(rel))
file_findings = scan_file(md_file, skip_fenced)
for f in file_findings:
f['file'] = str(rel)
all_findings.extend(file_findings)
# Build summary
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
by_category = {
'project_root_not_bmad': 0,
'bare_bmad': 0,
'double_prefix': 0,
'absolute_path': 0,
'relative_prefix': 0,
'memory_path': 0,
}
for f in all_findings:
sev = f['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
cat = f['category'].replace('-', '_')
if cat in by_category:
by_category[cat] += 1
return {
'scanner': 'path-standards',
'script': 'scan-path-standards.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'files_scanned': files_scanned,
'status': 'pass' if not all_findings else 'fail',
'findings': all_findings,
'assessments': {},
'summary': {
'total_findings': len(all_findings),
'by_severity': by_severity,
'by_category': by_category,
'assessment': 'Path standards scan complete',
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Scan BMad skill for path standard violations',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--include-fenced',
action='store_true',
help='Also check inside fenced code blocks (by default they are skipped)',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_skill(args.skill_path, skip_fenced=not args.include_fenced)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0 if result['status'] == 'pass' else 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic scripts scanner for BMad skills.
Validates scripts in a skill's scripts/ folder for:
- PEP 723 inline dependencies (Python)
- Shebang, set -e, portability (Shell)
- Version pinning for npx/uvx
- Agentic design: no input(), has argparse/--help, JSON output, exit codes
- Unit test existence
- Over-engineering signals (line count, simple-op imports)
- External lint: ruff (Python), shellcheck (Bash), biome (JS/TS)
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import ast
import json
import re
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# =============================================================================
# External Linter Integration
# =============================================================================
def _run_command(cmd: list[str], timeout: int = 30) -> tuple[int, str, str]:
"""Run a command and return (returncode, stdout, stderr)."""
try:
result = subprocess.run(
cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=timeout,
)
return result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr
except FileNotFoundError:
return -1, '', f'Command not found: {cmd[0]}'
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return -2, '', f'Command timed out after {timeout}s: {" ".join(cmd)}'
def _find_uv() -> str | None:
"""Find uv binary on PATH."""
return shutil.which('uv')
def _find_npx() -> str | None:
"""Find npx binary on PATH."""
return shutil.which('npx')
def lint_python_ruff(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Run ruff on a Python file via uv. Returns lint findings."""
uv = _find_uv()
if not uv:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': 'uv not found on PATH — cannot run ruff for Python linting',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Install uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/',
}]
rc, stdout, stderr = _run_command([
uv, 'run', 'ruff', 'check', '--output-format', 'json', str(filepath),
])
if rc == -1:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': f'Failed to run ruff via uv: {stderr.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Ensure uv can install and run ruff: uv run ruff --version',
}]
if rc == -2:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'ruff timed out on {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
# ruff outputs JSON array on stdout (even on rc=1 when issues found)
findings = []
try:
issues = json.loads(stdout) if stdout.strip() else []
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'Failed to parse ruff output for {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
for issue in issues:
fix_msg = issue.get('fix', {}).get('message', '') if issue.get('fix') else ''
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': issue.get('location', {}).get('row', 0),
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'lint',
'title': f'[{issue.get("code", "?")}] {issue.get("message", "")}',
'detail': '',
'action': fix_msg or f'See https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/{issue.get("code", "")}',
})
return findings
def lint_shell_shellcheck(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Run shellcheck on a shell script via uv. Returns lint findings."""
uv = _find_uv()
if not uv:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': 'uv not found on PATH — cannot run shellcheck for shell linting',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Install uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/',
}]
rc, stdout, stderr = _run_command([
uv, 'run', '--with', 'shellcheck-py',
'shellcheck', '--format', 'json', str(filepath),
])
if rc == -1:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': f'Failed to run shellcheck via uv: {stderr.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Ensure uv can install shellcheck-py: uv run --with shellcheck-py shellcheck --version',
}]
if rc == -2:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'shellcheck timed out on {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
findings = []
# shellcheck outputs JSON on stdout (rc=1 when issues found)
raw = stdout.strip() or stderr.strip()
try:
issues = json.loads(raw) if raw else []
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'Failed to parse shellcheck output for {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
# Map shellcheck levels to our severity
level_map = {'error': 'high', 'warning': 'high', 'info': 'high', 'style': 'medium'}
for issue in issues:
sc_code = issue.get('code', '')
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': issue.get('line', 0),
'severity': level_map.get(issue.get('level', ''), 'high'),
'category': 'lint',
'title': f'[SC{sc_code}] {issue.get("message", "")}',
'detail': '',
'action': f'See https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC{sc_code}',
})
return findings
def lint_node_biome(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Run biome on a JS/TS file via npx. Returns lint findings."""
npx = _find_npx()
if not npx:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': 'npx not found on PATH — cannot run biome for JS/TS linting',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Install Node.js 20+: https://nodejs.org/',
}]
rc, stdout, stderr = _run_command([
npx, '--yes', '@biomejs/biome', 'lint', '--reporter', 'json', str(filepath),
], timeout=60)
if rc == -1:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': f'Failed to run biome via npx: {stderr.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Ensure npx can run biome: npx @biomejs/biome --version',
}]
if rc == -2:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'biome timed out on {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
findings = []
# biome outputs JSON on stdout
raw = stdout.strip()
try:
result = json.loads(raw) if raw else {}
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'Failed to parse biome output for {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
for diag in result.get('diagnostics', []):
loc = diag.get('location', {})
start = loc.get('start', {})
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': start.get('line', 0),
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'lint',
'title': f'[{diag.get("category", "?")}] {diag.get("message", "")}',
'detail': '',
'action': diag.get('advices', [{}])[0].get('message', '') if diag.get('advices') else '',
})
return findings
# =============================================================================
# BMad Pattern Checks (Existing)
# =============================================================================
def scan_python_script(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Check a Python script for standards compliance."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# PEP 723 check
if '# /// script' not in content:
# Only flag if the script has imports (not a trivial script)
if 'import ' in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': 'No PEP 723 inline dependency block (# /// script)',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add PEP 723 block with requires-python and dependencies',
})
else:
# Check requires-python is present
if 'requires-python' not in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': 'PEP 723 block exists but missing requires-python constraint',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add requires-python = ">=3.9" or appropriate version',
})
# requirements.txt reference
if 'requirements.txt' in content or 'pip install' in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': 'References requirements.txt or pip install — use PEP 723 inline deps',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Replace with PEP 723 inline dependency block',
})
# Agentic design checks via AST
try:
tree = ast.parse(content)
except SyntaxError:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'error-handling',
'title': 'Python syntax error — script cannot be parsed',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
})
return findings
has_argparse = False
has_json_dumps = False
has_sys_exit = False
imports = set()
for node in ast.walk(tree):
# Track imports
if isinstance(node, ast.Import):
for alias in node.names:
imports.add(alias.name)
elif isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom):
if node.module:
imports.add(node.module)
# input() calls
if isinstance(node, ast.Call):
func = node.func
if isinstance(func, ast.Name) and func.id == 'input':
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': node.lineno,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'input() call found — blocks in non-interactive agent execution',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use argparse with required flags instead of interactive prompts',
})
# json.dumps
if isinstance(func, ast.Attribute) and func.attr == 'dumps':
has_json_dumps = True
# sys.exit
if isinstance(func, ast.Attribute) and func.attr == 'exit':
has_sys_exit = True
if isinstance(func, ast.Name) and func.id == 'exit':
has_sys_exit = True
# argparse
if isinstance(node, ast.Attribute) and node.attr == 'ArgumentParser':
has_argparse = True
if not has_argparse and line_count > 20:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'No argparse found — script lacks --help self-documentation',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add argparse with description and argument help text',
})
if not has_json_dumps and line_count > 20:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'No json.dumps found — output may not be structured JSON',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use json.dumps for structured output parseable by workflows',
})
if not has_sys_exit and line_count > 20:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'No sys.exit() calls — may not return meaningful exit codes',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Return 0=success, 1=fail, 2=error via sys.exit()',
})
# Over-engineering: simple file ops in Python
simple_op_imports = {'shutil', 'glob', 'fnmatch'}
over_eng = imports & simple_op_imports
if over_eng and line_count < 30:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Short script ({line_count} lines) imports {", ".join(over_eng)} — may be simpler as bash',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider if cp/mv/find shell commands would suffice',
})
# Very short script
if line_count < 5:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Script is only {line_count} lines — could be an inline command',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider inlining this command directly in the prompt',
})
return findings
def scan_shell_script(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Check a shell script for standards compliance."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# Shebang
if not lines[0].startswith('#!'):
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'portability',
'title': 'Missing shebang line',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add #!/usr/bin/env bash or #!/usr/bin/env sh',
})
elif '/usr/bin/env' not in lines[0]:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'Shebang uses hardcoded path: {lines[0].strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use #!/usr/bin/env bash for cross-platform compatibility',
})
# set -e
if 'set -e' not in content and 'set -euo' not in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'error-handling',
'title': 'Missing set -e — errors will be silently ignored',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add set -e (or set -euo pipefail) near the top',
})
# Hardcoded interpreter paths
hardcoded_re = re.compile(r'/usr/bin/(python|ruby|node|perl)\b')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
if hardcoded_re.search(line):
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'Hardcoded interpreter path: {line.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use /usr/bin/env or PATH-based lookup',
})
# GNU-only tools
gnu_re = re.compile(r'\b(gsed|gawk|ggrep|gfind)\b')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = gnu_re.search(line)
if m:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'GNU-only tool: {m.group()} — not available on all platforms',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use POSIX-compatible equivalent',
})
# Unquoted variables (basic check)
unquoted_re = re.compile(r'(?<!")\$\w+(?!")')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
if line.strip().startswith('#'):
continue
for m in unquoted_re.finditer(line):
# Skip inside double-quoted strings (rough heuristic)
before = line[:m.start()]
if before.count('"') % 2 == 1:
continue
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'Potentially unquoted variable: {m.group()} — breaks with spaces in paths',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Use "{m.group()}" with double quotes',
})
# npx/uvx without version pinning
no_pin_re = re.compile(r'\b(npx|uvx)\s+([a-zA-Z][\w-]+)(?!\S*@)')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
if line.strip().startswith('#'):
continue
m = no_pin_re.search(line)
if m:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': f'{m.group(1)} {m.group(2)} without version pinning',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Pin version: {m.group(1)} {m.group(2)}@<version>',
})
# Very short script
if line_count < 5:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Script is only {line_count} lines — could be an inline command',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider inlining this command directly in the prompt',
})
return findings
def scan_node_script(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Check a JS/TS script for standards compliance."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# npx/uvx without version pinning
no_pin = re.compile(r'\b(npx|uvx)\s+([a-zA-Z][\w-]+)(?!\S*@)')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = no_pin.search(line)
if m:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': f'{m.group(1)} {m.group(2)} without version pinning',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Pin version: {m.group(1)} {m.group(2)}@<version>',
})
# Very short script
if line_count < 5:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Script is only {line_count} lines — could be an inline command',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider inlining this command directly in the prompt',
})
return findings
# =============================================================================
# Main Scanner
# =============================================================================
def scan_skill_scripts(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Scan all scripts in a skill directory."""
scripts_dir = skill_path / 'scripts'
all_findings = []
lint_findings = []
script_inventory = {'python': [], 'shell': [], 'node': [], 'other': []}
missing_tests = []
if not scripts_dir.exists():
return {
'scanner': 'scripts',
'script': 'scan-scripts.py',
'version': '2.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': 'pass',
'findings': [{
'file': 'scripts/',
'severity': 'info',
'category': 'none',
'title': 'No scripts/ directory found — nothing to scan',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}],
'assessments': {
'lint_summary': {
'tools_used': [],
'files_linted': 0,
'lint_issues': 0,
},
'script_summary': {
'total_scripts': 0,
'by_type': script_inventory,
'missing_tests': [],
},
},
'summary': {
'total_findings': 0,
'by_severity': {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0},
'assessment': '',
},
}
# Find all script files (exclude tests/ and __pycache__)
script_files = []
for f in sorted(scripts_dir.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix in ('.py', '.sh', '.bash', '.js', '.ts', '.mjs'):
script_files.append(f)
tests_dir = scripts_dir / 'tests'
lint_tools_used = set()
for script_file in script_files:
rel_path = f'scripts/{script_file.name}'
ext = script_file.suffix
if ext == '.py':
script_inventory['python'].append(script_file.name)
findings = scan_python_script(script_file, rel_path)
lf = lint_python_ruff(script_file, rel_path)
lint_findings.extend(lf)
if lf and not any(f['category'] == 'lint-setup' for f in lf):
lint_tools_used.add('ruff')
elif ext in ('.sh', '.bash'):
script_inventory['shell'].append(script_file.name)
findings = scan_shell_script(script_file, rel_path)
lf = lint_shell_shellcheck(script_file, rel_path)
lint_findings.extend(lf)
if lf and not any(f['category'] == 'lint-setup' for f in lf):
lint_tools_used.add('shellcheck')
elif ext in ('.js', '.ts', '.mjs'):
script_inventory['node'].append(script_file.name)
findings = scan_node_script(script_file, rel_path)
lf = lint_node_biome(script_file, rel_path)
lint_findings.extend(lf)
if lf and not any(f['category'] == 'lint-setup' for f in lf):
lint_tools_used.add('biome')
else:
script_inventory['other'].append(script_file.name)
findings = []
# Check for unit tests
if tests_dir.exists():
stem = script_file.stem
test_patterns = [
f'test_{stem}{ext}', f'test-{stem}{ext}',
f'{stem}_test{ext}', f'{stem}-test{ext}',
f'test_{stem}.py', f'test-{stem}.py',
]
has_test = any((tests_dir / t).exists() for t in test_patterns)
else:
has_test = False
if not has_test:
missing_tests.append(script_file.name)
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'tests',
'title': f'No unit test found for {script_file.name}',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Create scripts/tests/test-{script_file.stem}{ext} with test cases',
})
all_findings.extend(findings)
# Check if tests/ directory exists at all
if script_files and not tests_dir.exists():
all_findings.append({
'file': 'scripts/tests/',
'line': 0,
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'tests',
'title': 'scripts/tests/ directory does not exist — no unit tests',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Create scripts/tests/ with test files for each script',
})
# Merge lint findings into all findings
all_findings.extend(lint_findings)
# Build summary
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
by_category: dict[str, int] = {}
for f in all_findings:
sev = f['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
cat = f['category']
by_category[cat] = by_category.get(cat, 0) + 1
total_scripts = sum(len(v) for v in script_inventory.values())
status = 'pass'
if by_severity['critical'] > 0:
status = 'fail'
elif by_severity['high'] > 0:
status = 'warning'
elif total_scripts == 0:
status = 'pass'
lint_issue_count = sum(1 for f in lint_findings if f['category'] == 'lint')
return {
'scanner': 'scripts',
'script': 'scan-scripts.py',
'version': '2.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': status,
'findings': all_findings,
'assessments': {
'lint_summary': {
'tools_used': sorted(lint_tools_used),
'files_linted': total_scripts,
'lint_issues': lint_issue_count,
},
'script_summary': {
'total_scripts': total_scripts,
'by_type': {k: len(v) for k, v in script_inventory.items()},
'scripts': {k: v for k, v in script_inventory.items() if v},
'missing_tests': missing_tests,
},
},
'summary': {
'total_findings': len(all_findings),
'by_severity': by_severity,
'by_category': by_category,
'assessment': '',
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Scan BMad skill scripts for quality, portability, agentic design, and lint issues',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_skill_scripts(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0 if result['status'] == 'pass' else 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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---
name: bmad-workflow-builder
description: Builds workflows and skills through conversational discovery and validates existing ones. Use when the user requests to "build a workflow", "modify a workflow", "quality check workflow", or "optimize skill".
argument-hint: "--headless or -H to not prompt user, initial input for create, path to existing skill with keywords optimize, edit, validate"
---
# Workflow & Skill Builder
## Overview
This skill helps you build AI workflows and skills through conversational discovery and iterative refinement. Act as an architect guide, walking users through six phases: intent discovery, skill type classification, requirements gathering, drafting, building, and testing. Your output is a complete skill structure — from simple composable utilities to complex multi-stage workflows — ready to integrate into the BMad Method ecosystem.
## Vision: Build More, Architect Dreams
You're helping dreamers, builders, doers, and visionaries create the AI workflows and skills of their dreams.
**What they're building:**
Workflows and skills are **processes, tools, and composable building blocks** — and some may benefit from personality or tone guidance when it serves the user experience. A workflow automates multi-step processes. A skill provides reusable capabilities. They range from simple input/output utilities to complex multi-stage workflows with progressive disclosure. This builder itself is a perfect example of a complex workflow — multi-stage with routing, config integration, and the ability to perform different actions with human in the loop and autonomous modes if desired based on the clear intent of the input or conversation!
**The bigger picture:**
These workflows become part of the BMad Method ecosystem. If the user with your guidance can describe it, you can build it.
**Your output:** A skill structure ready to integrate into a module or use standalone.
## On Activation
1. Load config from `{project-root}/_bmad/bmb/config.yaml` and resolve:
- Use `{user_name}` for greeting
- Use `{communication_language}` for all communications
- Use `{bmad_builder_output_folder}` for all skill output
- Use `{bmad_builder_reports}` for skill report output
2. Detect user's intent from their request:
**Autonomous/Headless Mode Detection:** If the user passes `--headless` or `-H` flags, or if their intent clearly indicates non-interactive execution, set `{headless_mode}=true` and pass to all sub-prompts.
3. Route by intent — see Quick Reference below, or read the capability descriptions that follow.
## Build Process
This is the core creative path — where workflow and skill ideas become reality. Through six phases of conversational discovery, you guide users from a rough vision to a complete, tested skill structure. This covers building new workflows/skills from scratch, converting non-compliant formats, editing existing ones, and applying improvements or fixes.
Workflows and skills span three types: simple utilities (composable building blocks), simple workflows (single-file processes), and complex workflows (multi-stage with routing and progressive disclosure). The build process includes a lint gate for structural validation. When building or modifying skills that include scripts, unit tests are created alongside the scripts and run as part of validation.
Load `build-process.md` to begin.
## Quality Optimizer
For workflows/skills that already work but could work *better*. This is comprehensive validation and performance optimization — structure compliance, prompt craft, execution efficiency, workflow integrity, enhancement opportunities, and more. Uses deterministic lint scripts for instant structural checks and LLM scanner subagents for judgment-based analysis, all run in parallel.
Run this anytime you want to assess and improve an existing skill's quality.
Load `quality-optimizer.md` — it orchestrates everything including scan modes, autonomous handling, and remediation options.
---
## Quick Reference
| Intent | Trigger Phrases | Route |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| **Build** | "build/create/design/convert/edit/fix a workflow/skill/tool" | Load `build-process.md` |
| **Quality Optimize** | "quality check", "validate", "review/optimize/improve workflow/skill" | Load `quality-optimizer.md` |
| **Unclear** | — | Present the two options above and ask |
Pass `{headless_mode}` flag to all routes. Use TodoList tool to track progress through multi-step flows. Use AskUserQuestion tool when structuring questions for users. Use subagents for parallel work (quality scanners, web research or document review).
Help the user create amazing Workflows and tools!

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---
name: bmad-{module-code-or-empty}{skill-name}
description: {skill-description} # Format: [5-8 word summary]. [trigger phrase, e.g. Use when user says "create xyz"]
---
# {skill-name}
## Overview
{overview-template}
{if-simple-utility}
## Input
{input-format-description}
## Process
{processing-steps}
## Output
{output-format-description}
{/if-simple-utility}
{if-simple-workflow}
Act as {role-guidance}.
## On Activation
{if-bmad-init}
1. **Load config via bmad-init skill** — Store all returned vars for use:
- Use `{user_name}` from config for greeting
- Use `{communication_language}` for all communications
{if-creates-docs}- Use `{document_output_language}` for output documents{/if-creates-docs}
2. **Greet user** as `{user_name}`, speaking in `{communication_language}`
{/if-bmad-init}
3. **Proceed to workflow steps below**
## Workflow Steps
### Step 1: {step-1-name}
{step-1-instructions}
### Step 2: {step-2-name}
{step-2-instructions}
### Step 3: {step-3-name}
{step-3-instructions}
{/if-simple-workflow}
{if-complex-workflow}
Act as {role-guidance}.
{if-headless}
## Activation Mode Detection
**Check activation context immediately:**
1. **Headless mode**: If the user passes `--headless` or `-H` flags, or if their intent clearly indicates non-interactive execution:
- Skip questions, proceed with safe defaults, output structured results
- If `--headless:{task-name}` → run that specific task headless mode
- If just `--headless` → run default headless behavior
2. **Interactive mode** (default): Proceed to `## On Activation` section below
{/if-headless}
## On Activation
{if-bmad-init}
1. **Load config via bmad-init skill** — Store all returned vars for use:
- Use `{user_name}` from config for greeting
- Use `{communication_language}` for all communications
{if-creates-docs}- Use `{document_output_language}` for output documents{/if-creates-docs}
- Store any other config variables as `{var-name}` and use appropriately
2. **Greet user** as `{user_name}`, speaking in `{communication_language}`
{/if-bmad-init}
3. **Check if workflow in progress:**
- If output doc exists (user specifies path or we prompt):
- Read doc to determine current stage
- Resume from last completed stage
- Else: Start at `01-{stage-1-name}.md`
4. **Route to appropriate stage** based on progress
{if-headless}
**Headless mode routing:**
- Default: Run all stages sequentially with safe defaults
- Named task: Execute specific stage or task
- Output structured JSON results when complete
{/if-headless}
## Stages
| # | Stage | Purpose | Prompt |
|---|-------|---------|--------|
| 1 | {stage-1-name} | {stage-1-purpose} | `01-{stage-1-name}.md` |
| 2 | {stage-2-name} | {stage-2-purpose} | `02-{stage-2-name}.md` |
{/if-complex-workflow}
{if-external-skills}
## External Skills
This workflow uses:
{external-skills-list}
{/if-external-skills}
{if-scripts}
## Scripts
Available scripts in `scripts/`:
- `{script-name}` — {script-description}
{/if-scripts}

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# Quality Report: {skill-name}
**Scanned:** {timestamp}
**Skill Path:** {skill-path}
**Report:** {report-file-path}
**Performed By** QualityReportBot-9001 and {user_name}
## Executive Summary
- **Total Issues:** {total-issues}
- **Critical:** {critical} | **High:** {high} | **Medium:** {medium} | **Low:** {low}
- **Overall Quality:** {Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor}
- **Overall Cohesion:** {cohesion-score}
- **Craft Assessment:** {craft-assessment}
<!-- Synthesize a 1-3 sentence narrative: skill purpose (from enhancement-opportunities skill_understanding.purpose), architecture quality highlights, and most significant finding. -->
{executive-narrative}
### Issues by Category
| Category | Critical | High | Medium | Low |
|----------|----------|------|--------|-----|
| Structural | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Prompt Craft | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Cohesion | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Efficiency | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Quality | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Scripts | {n} | {n} | {n} | {n} |
| Creative | — | — | {n} | {n} |
---
## Strengths
*What this skill does well — preserve these during optimization:*
<!-- Collect from ALL of these sources:
- All scanners: findings[] with severity="strength" or category="strength"
- prompt-craft: findings where severity="note" and observation is positive
- prompt-craft: positive aspects from assessments.skillmd_assessment.notes
- enhancement-opportunities: bright_spots from each assessments.user_journeys[] entry
Group by theme. Each strength should explain WHY it matters. -->
{strengths-list}
---
{if-truly-broken}
## Truly Broken or Missing
*Issues that prevent the workflow/skill from working correctly:*
<!-- Every CRITICAL and HIGH severity issue from ALL scanners. Maximum detail: description, affected files/lines, fix instructions. These are the most actionable part of the report. -->
{truly-broken-findings}
---
{/if-truly-broken}
## Detailed Findings by Category
### 1. Structural
<!-- Source: workflow-integrity-temp.json -->
{if-stage-summary}
**Stage Summary:** {total-stages} stages | Missing: {missing-stages} | Orphaned: {orphaned-stages}
{/if-stage-summary}
<!-- List findings by severity: Critical > High > Medium > Low. Omit empty severity levels. -->
{structural-findings}
### 2. Prompt Craft
<!-- Source: prompt-craft-temp.json -->
**Skill Assessment:**
- Overview quality: {overview-quality}
- Progressive disclosure: {progressive-disclosure}
- {skillmd-assessment-notes}
{if-prompt-health}
**Prompt Health:** {prompts-with-config-header}/{total-prompts} with config header | {prompts-with-progression}/{total-prompts} with progression conditions | {prompts-self-contained}/{total-prompts} self-contained
{/if-prompt-health}
{prompt-craft-findings}
### 3. Cohesion
<!-- Source: skill-cohesion-temp.json -->
{if-cohesion-analysis}
**Cohesion Analysis:**
<!-- Include only dimensions present in scanner output. -->
| Dimension | Score | Notes |
|-----------|-------|-------|
| Stage Flow Coherence | {score} | {notes} |
| Purpose Alignment | {score} | {notes} |
| Complexity Appropriateness | {score} | {notes} |
| Stage Completeness | {score} | {notes} |
| Redundancy Level | {score} | {notes} |
| Dependency Graph | {score} | {notes} |
| Output Location Alignment | {score} | {notes} |
| User Journey | {score} | {notes} |
{/if-cohesion-analysis}
{cohesion-findings}
{if-creative-suggestions}
**Creative Suggestions:**
<!-- From findings[] with severity="suggestion". Each: title, detail, action. -->
{creative-suggestions}
{/if-creative-suggestions}
### 4. Efficiency
<!-- Source: execution-efficiency-temp.json -->
{efficiency-issue-findings}
{if-efficiency-opportunities}
**Optimization Opportunities:**
<!-- From findings[] with severity ending in -opportunity. Each: title, detail (includes type/savings narrative), action. -->
{efficiency-opportunities}
{/if-efficiency-opportunities}
### 5. Quality
<!-- Source: path-standards-temp.json, scripts-temp.json -->
{quality-findings}
### 6. Scripts
<!-- Source: scripts-temp.json AND script-opportunities-temp.json. Merge and deduplicate across both. -->
{if-script-inventory}
**Script Inventory:** {total-scripts} scripts ({by-type-breakdown}) | Missing tests: {missing-tests-list}
{/if-script-inventory}
{script-issue-findings}
{if-script-opportunities}
**Script Opportunity Findings:**
<!-- From script-opportunities-temp.json findings[]. These identify LLM work that should be scripts.
Each: title, detail (includes determinism/complexity/savings narrative), action. -->
{script-opportunities}
**Token Savings:** {total-estimated-token-savings} | Highest value: {highest-value-opportunity} | Prepass opportunities: {prepass-count}
{/if-script-opportunities}
### 7. Creative (Edge-Case & Experience Innovation)
<!-- Source: enhancement-opportunities-temp.json. These are advisory suggestions, not errors. -->
**Skill Understanding:**
- **Purpose:** {skill-purpose}
- **Primary User:** {primary-user}
- **Key Assumptions:**
{key-assumptions-list}
**Enhancement Findings:**
<!-- Organize by: high-opportunity > medium-opportunity > low-opportunity.
Each: title, detail, action. -->
{enhancement-findings}
{if-top-insights}
**Top Insights:**
<!-- From enhancement-opportunities assessments.top_insights[]. These are the synthesized highest-value observations.
Each: title, detail, action. -->
{top-insights}
{/if-top-insights}
---
{if-user-journeys}
## User Journeys
*How different user archetypes experience this skill:*
<!-- From enhancement-opportunities user_journeys[]. Reproduce EVERY archetype fully. -->
### {archetype-name}
{journey-summary}
**Friction Points:**
{friction-points-list}
**Bright Spots:**
{bright-spots-list}
<!-- Repeat for ALL archetypes. Do not skip any. -->
---
{/if-user-journeys}
{if-autonomous-assessment}
## Autonomous Readiness
<!-- From enhancement-opportunities autonomous_assessment. Include ALL fields. -->
- **Overall Potential:** {overall-potential}
- **HITL Interaction Points:** {hitl-count}
- **Auto-Resolvable:** {auto-resolvable-count}
- **Needs Input:** {needs-input-count}
- **Suggested Output Contract:** {output-contract}
- **Required Inputs:** {required-inputs-list}
- **Notes:** {assessment-notes}
---
{/if-autonomous-assessment}
## Quick Wins (High Impact, Low Effort)
<!-- Pull from ALL scanners: findings where fix effort is trivial/low but impact is meaningful. -->
| Issue | File | Effort | Impact |
|-------|------|--------|--------|
{quick-wins-rows}
---
## Optimization Opportunities
<!-- Synthesize across scanners — not a copy of findings but a narrative of improvement themes. -->
**Prompt Craft:**
{prompt-optimization-narrative}
**Performance:**
{performance-optimization-narrative}
**Maintainability:**
{maintainability-optimization-narrative}
---
## Recommendations
<!-- Rank by: severity first, then breadth of impact, then effort (prefer low-effort). Up to 5. -->
1. {recommendation-1}
2. {recommendation-2}
3. {recommendation-3}
4. {recommendation-4}
5. {recommendation-5}

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{
"module-code": "bmb",
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "build",
"menu-code": "BP",
"description": "Build, edit, or convert workflows and skills through six-phase conversational discovery. Covers new skills, format conversion, edits, and fixes.",
"supports-headless": true,
"prompt": "build-process.md",
"phase-name": "anytime",
"output-location": "{bmad_builder_output_folder}"
},
{
"name": "quality-optimize",
"menu-code": "QO",
"description": "Comprehensive validation and optimization using lint scripts and LLM scanner subagents. Structure, prompt craft, efficiency, and more.",
"supports-headless": true,
"prompt": "quality-optimizer.md",
"phase-name": "anytime",
"output-location": "{bmad_builder_reports}"
}
]
}

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---
name: build-process
description: Six-phase conversational discovery process for building BMad workflows and skills. Covers intent discovery, skill type classification, requirements gathering, drafting, building, and summary.
---
**Language:** Use `{communication_language}` for all output.
# Build Process
Build workflows and skills through six phases of conversational discovery. Act as an architect guide — help users articulate their vision completely, classify the right skill type, and build something that exceeds what they imagined.
## Phase 1: Discover Intent
Understand their vision before diving into specifics. Let them describe what they want to build, encourage them to be as detailed as possible including edge cases, variants, tone and persona of the workflow if needed, tools or other skills.
**Input flexibility:** Accept input in any format:
- Existing BMad workflow/skill path → read, analyze, determine if editing or converting
- Rough idea or description → guide through discovery
- Code, documentation, API specs → extract intent and requirements
- Non-BMad skill/tool → convert to BMad-compliant structure
If editing/converting an existing skill: read it, analyze what exists vs what's missing, ensure BMad standard conformance.
Remember, the best user experience for this process is you conversationally allowing the user to give us info in this stage and you being able to confirm or suggest for them most of what you need for Phase 2 and 3.
For Phase 2 and 3 that follow, adapt to what you already know that the user has given you so far, since they just brain dumped and gave you a lot of information
## Phase 2: Classify Skill Type
Ask upfront:
- Will this be part of a module? If yes:
- What's the module code? (so we can configure properly)
- What other skills will it use from the core or specified module, we need the name, inputs, and output so we know how to integrate it? (bmad-init is default unless explicitly opted out, other skills should be either core skills or skills that will be part of the module)
- What are the variable names it will have access to that it needs to use? (variables can be use for things like choosing various paths in the skill, adjusting output styles, configuring output locations, tool availability, and anything that could be configurable by a user)
Load `references/classification-reference.md` for the full decision tree, classification signals, and module context rules. Use it to classify:
1. Composable building block with clear input/output and generally will use scripts either inline or in the scripts folder? → **Simple Utility**
2. Fits in a single SKILL.md, may have some resources and a prompt, but generally not very complex. Human in the Loop and Autonomous abilities? → **Simple Workflow**
- **Headless mode?** Should this workflow support `--headless` invocation? (If it produces an artifact, headless mode may be valuable)
3. Needs multiple stages and branches, may be long-running, uses progressive disclosure with prompts and resources, usually Human in the Loop with multiple paths and prompts? → **Complex Workflow**
For Complex Workflows, also ask:
- **Headless mode?** Should this workflow support `--headless` invocation?
Present classification with reasoning. This determines template and structure.
## Phase 3: Gather Requirements
Work through conversationally, adapted per skill type, so you can either glean from the user or suggest based on their narrative.
**All types — Common fields:**
- **Name:** kebab-case. If module: `bmad-{modulecode}-{skillname}`. If standalone: `bmad-{skillname}`
- **Description:** Two parts: [5-8 word summary of what it does]. [Use when user says 'specific phrase' or 'specific phrase'.] — Default to explicit invocation (conservative triggering) unless user specifies organic/reactive activation. See `references/standard-fields.md` for format details and examples.
- **Overview:** 3-part formula (What/How/Why-Outcome). For interactive or complex skills, also include brief domain framing (what concepts does this skill operate on?) and theory of mind (who is the user and what might they not know?). These give the executing agent enough context to make judgment calls when situations don't match the script.
- **Role guidance:** Brief "Act as a [role/expert]" statement to prime the model for the right domain expertise and tone
- **Design rationale:** Any non-obvious choices the executing agent should understand? (e.g., "We interview before building because users rarely know their full requirements upfront")
- **Module context:** Already determined in Phase 2
- **External skills used:** Which skills does this invoke?
- **Script Opportunity Discovery** (active probing — do not skip):
Walk through each planned step/stage with the user and apply these filters:
1. "Does this step have clear pass/fail criteria?" → Script candidate
2. "Could this run without LLM judgment — no interpretation, no creativity, no ambiguity?" → Strong script candidate
3. "Does it validate, transform, count, parse, format-convert, compare against a schema, or check structure?" → Almost certainly a script
**Common script-worthy operations:**
- Schema/format validation (JSON, YAML, frontmatter, file structure)
- Data extraction and transformation (parsing, restructuring, field mapping)
- Counting, aggregation, and metric collection (token counts, file counts, summary stats)
- File/directory structure checks (existence, naming conventions, required files)
- Pattern matching against known standards (path conventions, naming rules)
- Comparison operations (diff, version compare, before/after, cross-reference checking)
- Dependency graphing (parsing imports, references, manifest entries)
- Template artifact detection (orphaned placeholders, unresolved variables)
- Pre-processing for LLM steps (extract compact metrics from large files so the LLM works from structured data, not raw content)
- Post-processing validation (verify LLM output conforms to expected schema/structure)
**Present your script plan**: Before moving to Phase 4, explicitly tell the user which operations you plan to implement as scripts vs. prompts, with one-line reasoning for each. Ask if they agree or want to adjust.
- **Creates output documents?** If yes, will use `{document_output_language}` from config
**Simple Utility additional fields:**
- **Input format:** What does it accept?
- **Output format:** What does it return?
- **Standalone?** Opt out of bmad-init? (Makes it a truly standalone building block)
- **Composability:** How might this be used by other skills/workflows?
- **Script needs:** What scripts does the utility require?
**Simple Workflow additional fields:**
- **Steps:** Numbered steps (inline in SKILL.md)
- **Tools used:** What tools/CLIs/scripts does it use?
- **Output:** What does it produce?
- **Config variables:** What config vars beyond core does it need?
**Complex Workflow additional fields:**
- **Stages:** Named numbered stages with purposes
- **Stage progression conditions:** When does each stage complete?
- **Headless mode:** If yes, what should headless execution do? Default behavior? Named tasks?
- **Config variables:** Core + module-specific vars needed
- **Output artifacts:** What does this create? (output-location)
- **Dependencies:** What must run before this? What does it use? (after/before arrays)
**Module capability metadata (if part of a module):**
For each capability, confirm these with the user — they determine how the module's help system presents and sequences the skill:
- **phase-name:** Which module phase does this belong to? (e.g., "1-analysis", "2-design", "3-build", "anytime")
- **after:** Array of skill names that should ideally run before this one. Ask: "What does this skill use as input? What should have already run?" (e.g., `["brainstorming", "perform-research"]`)
- **before:** Array of skill names this should run before. Ask: "What downstream skills consume this skill's output?" (e.g., `["create-prd"]`)
- **is-required:** If true, skills in the `before` array are blocked until this completes. If false, the ordering is a suggestion (nice-to-have input, not a hard dependency).
- **description (capability):** Keep this VERY short — a single sentence describing what it produces, not how it works. This is what the LLM help system shows users. (e.g., "Produces executive product brief and optional LLM distillate for PRD input.")
**Path conventions (CRITICAL):**
- Skill-internal files use bare relative paths: `references/`, `scripts/`, and prompt files at root
- Only `_bmad` paths get `{project-root}` prefix: `{project-root}/_bmad/...`
- Config variables used directly — they already contain `{project-root}` (no double-prefix)
## Phase 4: Draft & Refine
Once you have a cohesive idea, think one level deeper, clarify with the user any gaps in logic or understanding. Create and present a plan. Point out vague areas. Ask what else is needed. Iterate until they say they're ready.
## Phase 5: Build
**Always load these before building:**
- Load `references/standard-fields.md` — field definitions, description format, path rules
- Load `references/skill-best-practices.md` — authoring patterns (freedom levels, templates, anti-patterns)
- Load `references/quality-dimensions.md` — quick mental checklist for build quality
**Load based on skill type:**
- **If Complex Workflow:** Load `references/complex-workflow-patterns.md` — compaction survival, document-as-cache pattern, config integration, facilitator model, progressive disclosure with prompt files at root. This is essential for building workflows that survive long-running sessions.
- **If module-based (any type):** Load `references/metadata-reference.md` — bmad-manifest.json field definitions, module metadata structure, config loading requirements.
- **Always load** `references/script-opportunities-reference.md` — script opportunity spotting guide, catalog, and output standards. Use this to identify additional script opportunities not caught in Phase 3, even if no scripts were initially planned.
When confirmed:
1. Load template substitution rules from `references/template-substitution-rules.md` and apply
2. Load unified template: `assets/SKILL-template.md`
- Apply skill-type conditionals (`{if-complex-workflow}`, `{if-simple-workflow}`, `{if-simple-utility}`) to keep only relevant sections
3. **Progressive disclosure:** Keep SKILL.md focused on Overview, activation, and routing. Detailed stage instructions go in prompt files at the skill root. Reference data, schemas, and large tables go in `references/`. Multi-branch SKILL.md under ~250 lines is fine as-is; single-purpose up to ~500 lines if genuinely needed.
4. Generate folder structure and include only what is needed for the specific skill:
**Skill Source Tree:**
```
{skill-name}/
├── SKILL.md # name (same as folder name), description
├── bmad-manifest.json # Capabilities, module integration, optional persona/memory
├── *.md # Prompt files and subagent definitions at root
├── references/ # Reference data, schemas, guides (read for context)
├── assets/ # Templates, starter files (copied/transformed into output)
├── scripts/ # Deterministic code — validation, transformation, testing
│ └── tests/ # All scripts need unit tests
```
**What goes where:**
| Location | Contains | LLM relationship |
|----------|----------|-----------------|
| **Root `.md` files** | Prompt/instruction files, subagent definitions | LLM **loads and executes** these as instructions — they are extensions of SKILL.md |
| **`references/`** | Reference data, schemas, tables, examples, guides | LLM **reads for context** — informational, not executable |
| **`assets/`** | Templates, starter files, boilerplate | LLM **copies/transforms** these into output — not for reasoning |
| **`scripts/`** | Python, shell scripts with tests | LLM **invokes** these — deterministic operations that don't need judgment |
Only create subfolders that are needed — most skills won't need all four.
5. **Generate bmad-manifest.json** — Use `scripts/manifest.py` (validation is automatic on every write). **IMPORTANT:** The generated manifest must NOT include a `$schema` field — the schema is used for validation tooling only and is not part of the delivered skill.
```bash
# Create manifest
python3 scripts/manifest.py create {skill-path} \
--module-code {code} # if part of a module \
--has-memory # if state persists across sessions
# Add each capability (even single-purpose skills get one)
# NOTE: capability description must be VERY short — what it produces, not how it works
python3 scripts/manifest.py add-capability {skill-path} \
--name {name} --menu-code {MC} --description "Short: what it produces." \
--supports-autonomous \
--prompt {name}.md # internal capability
# OR --skill-name {skill} # external skill
# omit both if SKILL.md handles it directly
# Module capabilities also need:
--phase-name {phase} # which module phase
--after skill-a skill-b # skills that should run before this
--before skill-c skill-d # skills this should run before
--is-required # if must complete before 'before' skills proceed
--output-location "{var}" # where output goes
```
6. Output to {`bmad_builder_output_folder`}
7. **Lint gate** — run deterministic validation scripts:
```bash
# Run both in parallel — they are independent
python3 scripts/scan-path-standards.py {skill-path}
python3 scripts/scan-scripts.py {skill-path}
```
- If any script returns critical issues: fix them before proceeding
- If only warnings/medium: note them but proceed
- These are structural checks — broken paths and script standards issues should be resolved before shipping
## Phase 6: Summary
Present what was built: location, structure, capabilities. Include lint results. Ask if adjustments needed.
If scripts exist, also run unit tests.
**Remind user to commit** working version before optimization.
**Offer quality optimization:**
Ask: *"Build is done. Would you like to run a Quality Scan to optimize further?"*
If yes, load `quality-optimizer.md` with `{scan_mode}=full` and the skill path.

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---
name: quality-optimizer
description: Comprehensive quality validation for BMad workflows and skills. Runs deterministic lint scripts and spawns parallel subagents for judgment-based scanning. Returns consolidated findings as structured JSON.
menu-code: QO
---
# Quality Optimizer
Communicate with user in `{communication_language}`. Write report content in `{document_output_language}`.
You orchestrate quality scans on a BMad workflow or skill. Deterministic checks run as scripts (fast, zero tokens). Judgment-based analysis runs as LLM subagents. You synthesize all results into a unified report.
## Your Role: Coordination, Not File Reading
**DO NOT read the target skill's files yourself.** Scripts and subagents do all analysis.
Your job:
1. Create output directory
2. Run all lint scripts + pre-pass scripts (instant, deterministic)
3. Spawn all LLM scanner subagents in parallel (with pre-pass data where available)
4. Collect all results
5. Synthesize into unified report (spawn report creator)
6. Present findings to user
## Autonomous Mode
**Check if `{headless_mode}=true`** — If set, run in headless mode:
- **Skip ALL questions** — proceed with safe defaults
- **Uncommitted changes:** Note in report, don't ask
- **Workflow functioning:** Assume yes, note in report that user should verify
- **After report:** Output summary and exit, don't offer next steps
- **Output format:** Structured JSON summary + report path, minimal conversational text
**Autonomous mode output:**
```json
{
"headless_mode": true,
"report_file": "{path-to-report}",
"summary": { ... },
"warnings": ["Uncommitted changes detected", "Workflow functioning not verified"]
}
```
## Pre-Scan Checks
Before running any scans:
**IF `{headless_mode}=true`:**
1. **Check for uncommitted changes** — Run `git status`. Note in warnings array if found.
2. **Skip workflow functioning verification** — Add to warnings: "Workflow functioning not verified — user should confirm workflow is working before applying fixes"
3. **Proceed directly to scans**
**IF `{headless_mode}=false` or not set:**
1. **Check for uncommitted changes** — Run `git status` on the repository. If uncommitted changes:
- Warn: "You have uncommitted changes. It's recommended to commit before optimization so you can easily revert if needed."
- Ask: "Do you want to proceed anyway, or commit first?"
- Halt and wait for user response
2. **Verify workflow is functioning** — Ask if the workflow is currently working as expected. Optimization should improve, not break working workflows.
## Communicate This Guidance to the User
**Workflow skills are both art and science.** The optimization report will contain many suggestions, but use your judgment:
- Reports may suggest leaner phrasing — but if the current phrasing captures the right guidance, keep it
- Reports may say content is "unnecessary" — but if it adds clarity, it may be worth keeping
- Reports may suggest scripting vs. prompting — consider what works best for the use case
**Over-optimization warning:** Optimizing too aggressively can make workflows lose their effectiveness. Apply human judgment alongside the report's suggestions.
## Quality Scanners
### Lint Scripts (Deterministic — Run First)
These run instantly, cost zero tokens, and produce structured JSON:
| # | Script | Focus | Temp Filename |
|---|--------|-------|---------------|
| S1 | `scripts/scan-path-standards.py` | Path conventions: {project-root} only for _bmad, bare _bmad, double-prefix, absolute paths | `path-standards-temp.json` |
| S2 | `scripts/scan-scripts.py` | Script portability, PEP 723, agentic design, unit tests | `scripts-temp.json` |
### Pre-Pass Scripts (Feed LLM Scanners)
These extract metrics for the LLM scanners so they work from compact data instead of raw files:
| # | Script | Feeds | Temp Filename |
|---|--------|-------|---------------|
| P1 | `scripts/prepass-workflow-integrity.py` | workflow-integrity LLM scanner | `workflow-integrity-prepass.json` |
| P2 | `scripts/prepass-prompt-metrics.py` | prompt-craft LLM scanner | `prompt-metrics-prepass.json` |
| P3 | `scripts/prepass-execution-deps.py` | execution-efficiency LLM scanner | `execution-deps-prepass.json` |
### LLM Scanners (Judgment-Based — Run After Scripts)
| # | Scanner | Focus | Pre-Pass? | Temp Filename |
|---|---------|-------|-----------|---------------|
| L1 | `quality-scan-workflow-integrity.md` | Logical consistency, description quality, progression condition quality, type-appropriate structure | Yes — receives prepass JSON | `workflow-integrity-temp.json` |
| L2 | `quality-scan-prompt-craft.md` | Token efficiency, anti-patterns, outcome balance, Overview quality, progressive disclosure | Yes — receives metrics JSON | `prompt-craft-temp.json` |
| L3 | `quality-scan-execution-efficiency.md` | Parallelization, subagent delegation, read avoidance, context optimization | Yes — receives dep graph JSON | `execution-efficiency-temp.json` |
| L4 | `quality-scan-skill-cohesion.md` | Stage flow coherence, purpose alignment, complexity appropriateness | No | `skill-cohesion-temp.json` |
| L5 | `quality-scan-enhancement-opportunities.md` | Creative edge-case discovery, experience gaps, delight opportunities, assumption auditing | No | `enhancement-opportunities-temp.json` |
| L6 | `quality-scan-script-opportunities.md` | Deterministic operation detection — finds LLM work that should be scripts instead | No | `script-opportunities-temp.json` |
## Execution Instructions
First create output directory: `{bmad_builder_reports}/{skill-name}/quality-scan/{date-time-stamp}/`
### Step 1: Run Lint Scripts (Parallel)
Run all applicable lint scripts in parallel. They output JSON to stdout — capture to temp files in the output directory:
```bash
# Full scan runs all 2 lint scripts + all 3 pre-pass scripts (5 total, all parallel)
python3 scripts/scan-path-standards.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/path-standards-temp.json
python3 scripts/scan-scripts.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/scripts-temp.json
uv run scripts/prepass-workflow-integrity.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/workflow-integrity-prepass.json
python3 scripts/prepass-prompt-metrics.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/prompt-metrics-prepass.json
uv run scripts/prepass-execution-deps.py {skill-path} -o {quality-report-dir}/execution-deps-prepass.json
```
### Step 2: Spawn LLM Scanners (Parallel)
After scripts complete, spawn applicable LLM scanners as parallel subagents.
**For scanners WITH pre-pass (L1, L2, L3):** provide the pre-pass JSON file path so the scanner reads compact metrics instead of raw files. The subagent should read the pre-pass JSON first, then only read raw files for judgment calls the pre-pass doesn't cover.
**For scanners WITHOUT pre-pass (L4, L5, L6):** provide just the skill path and output directory as before.
Each subagent receives:
- Scanner file to load (e.g., `quality-scan-skill-cohesion.md`)
- Skill path to scan: `{skill-path}`
- Output directory for results: `{quality-report-dir}`
- Temp filename for output: `{temp-filename}`
- Pre-pass file path (if applicable): `{quality-report-dir}/{prepass-filename}`
The subagent will:
- Load the scanner file and operate as that scanner
- Read pre-pass JSON first if provided, then read raw files only as needed
- Output findings as detailed JSON to: `{quality-report-dir}/{temp-filename}.json`
- Return only the filename when complete
## Synthesis
After all scripts and scanners complete:
**IF only lint scripts ran (no LLM scanners):**
1. Read the script output JSON files
2. Present findings directly — these are definitive pass/fail results
**IF single LLM scanner (with or without scripts):**
1. Read all temp JSON files (script + scanner)
2. Present findings directly in simplified format
3. Skip report creator (not needed for single scanner)
**IF multiple LLM scanners:**
1. Initiate a subagent with `report-quality-scan-creator.md`
**Provide the subagent with:**
- `{skill-path}` — The skill being validated
- `{temp-files-dir}` — Directory containing all `*-temp.json` files (both script and LLM results)
- `{quality-report-dir}` — Where to write the final report
## Generate HTML Report
After the report creator finishes (or after presenting lint-only / single-scanner results), generate the interactive HTML report:
```bash
python3 scripts/generate-html-report.py {quality-report-dir} --open
```
This produces `{quality-report-dir}/quality-report.html` — a self-contained interactive report with severity filters, collapsible sections, per-item copy-prompt buttons, and a batch prompt generator. The `--open` flag opens it in the default browser.
## Present Findings to User
After receiving the JSON summary from the report creator:
**IF `{headless_mode}=true`:**
1. **Output structured JSON:**
```json
{
"headless_mode": true,
"scan_completed": true,
"report_file": "{full-path-to-report}",
"html_report": "{full-path-to-html}",
"warnings": ["any warnings from pre-scan checks"],
"summary": {
"total_issues": 0,
"critical": 0,
"high": 0,
"medium": 0,
"low": 0,
"overall_quality": "{Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor}",
"truly_broken_found": false
}
}
```
2. **Exit** — Don't offer next steps, don't ask questions
**IF `{headless_mode}=false` or not set:**
1. **High-level summary** with total issues by severity
2. **Highlight truly broken/missing** — CRITICAL and HIGH issues prominently
3. **Mention reports** — "Full report: {report_file}" and "Interactive HTML report opened in browser (also at: {html_report})"
4. **Offer next steps:**
- Apply fixes directly
- Use the HTML report to select specific items and generate prompts
- Discuss specific findings
## Key Principle
Your role is ORCHESTRATION: run scripts, spawn subagents, synthesize results. Scripts handle deterministic checks (paths, schema, script standards). LLM scanners handle judgment calls (cohesion, craft, efficiency). You coordinate both and present unified findings.

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# Quality Scan: Creative Edge-Case & Experience Innovation
You are **DreamBot**, a creative disruptor who pressure-tests workflows by imagining what real humans will actually do with them — especially the things the builder never considered. You think wild first, then distill to sharp, actionable suggestions.
## Overview
Other scanners check if a skill is built correctly, crafted well, runs efficiently, and holds together. You ask the question none of them do: **"What's missing that nobody thought of?"**
You read a skill and genuinely *inhabit* it — imagine yourself as six different users with six different contexts, skill levels, moods, and intentions. Then you find the moments where the skill would confuse, frustrate, dead-end, or underwhelm them. You also find the moments where a single creative addition would transform the experience from functional to delightful.
This is the BMad dreamer scanner. Your job is to push boundaries, challenge assumptions, and surface the ideas that make builders say "I never thought of that." Then temper each wild idea into a concrete, succinct suggestion the builder can actually act on.
**This is purely advisory.** Nothing here is broken. Everything here is an opportunity.
## Your Role
You are NOT checking structure, craft quality, performance, or test coverage — other scanners handle those. You are the creative imagination that asks:
- What happens when users do the unexpected?
- What assumptions does this skill make that might not hold?
- Where would a confused user get stuck with no way forward?
- Where would a power user feel constrained?
- What's the one feature that would make someone love this skill?
- What emotional experience does this skill create, and could it be better?
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — Understand the skill's purpose, audience, and flow
- `*.md` prompt files at root — Walk through each stage as a user would experience it
- `references/*.md` — Understand what supporting material exists
- `references/*.json` — See what supporting schemas exist
## Creative Analysis Lenses
### 1. Edge Case Discovery
Imagine real users in real situations. What breaks, confuses, or dead-ends?
**User archetypes to inhabit:**
- The **first-timer** who has never used this kind of tool before
- The **expert** who knows exactly what they want and finds the workflow too slow
- The **confused user** who invoked this skill by accident or with the wrong intent
- The **edge-case user** whose input is technically valid but unexpected
- The **hostile environment** where external dependencies fail, files are missing, or context is limited
- The **automator** — a cron job, CI pipeline, or another agent that wants to invoke this skill headless with pre-supplied inputs and get back a result
**Questions to ask at each stage:**
- What if the user provides partial, ambiguous, or contradictory input?
- What if the user wants to skip this stage or go back to a previous one?
- What if the user's real need doesn't fit the skill's assumed categories?
- What happens if an external dependency (file, API, other skill) is unavailable?
- What if the user changes their mind mid-workflow?
- What if context compaction drops critical state mid-conversation?
### 2. Experience Gaps
Where does the skill deliver output but miss the *experience*?
| Gap Type | What to Look For |
|----------|-----------------|
| **Dead-end moments** | User hits a state where the skill has nothing to offer and no guidance on what to do next |
| **Assumption walls** | Skill assumes knowledge, context, or setup the user might not have |
| **Missing recovery** | Error or unexpected input with no graceful path forward |
| **Abandonment friction** | User wants to stop mid-workflow but there's no clean exit or state preservation |
| **Success amnesia** | Skill completes but doesn't help the user understand or use what was produced |
| **Invisible value** | Skill does something valuable but doesn't surface it to the user |
### 3. Delight Opportunities
Where could a small addition create outsized positive impact?
| Opportunity Type | Example |
|-----------------|---------|
| **Quick-win mode** | "I already have a spec, skip the interview" — let experienced users fast-track |
| **Smart defaults** | Infer reasonable defaults from context instead of asking every question |
| **Proactive insight** | "Based on what you've described, you might also want to consider..." |
| **Progress awareness** | Help the user understand where they are in a multi-stage workflow |
| **Memory leverage** | Use prior conversation context or project knowledge to personalize |
| **Graceful degradation** | When something goes wrong, offer a useful alternative instead of just failing |
| **Unexpected connection** | "This pairs well with [other skill]" — suggest adjacent capabilities |
### 4. Assumption Audit
Every skill makes assumptions. Surface the ones that are most likely to be wrong.
| Assumption Category | What to Challenge |
|--------------------|------------------|
| **User intent** | Does the skill assume a single use case when users might have several? |
| **Input quality** | Does the skill assume well-formed, complete input? |
| **Linear progression** | Does the skill assume users move forward-only through stages? |
| **Context availability** | Does the skill assume information that might not be in the conversation? |
| **Single-session completion** | Does the skill assume the workflow completes in one session? |
| **Skill isolation** | Does the skill assume it's the only thing the user is doing? |
### 5. Autonomous Potential
Many workflows are built for human-in-the-loop interaction — conversational discovery, iterative refinement, user confirmation at each stage. But what if someone passed in a headless flag and a detailed prompt? Could this workflow just... do its job, create the artifact, and return the file path?
This is one of the most transformative "what ifs" you can ask about a HITL workflow. A skill that works both interactively AND autonomously is dramatically more valuable — it can be invoked by other skills, chained in pipelines, run on schedules, or used by power users who already know what they want.
**For each HITL interaction point, ask:**
| Question | What You're Looking For |
|----------|------------------------|
| Could this question be answered by input parameters? | "What type of project?" → could come from a prompt or config instead of asking |
| Could this confirmation be skipped with reasonable defaults? | "Does this look right?" → if the input was detailed enough, skip confirmation |
| Is this clarification always needed, or only for ambiguous input? | "Did you mean X or Y?" → only needed when input is vague |
| Does this interaction add value or just ceremony? | Some confirmations exist because the builder assumed interactivity, not because they're necessary |
**Assess the skill's autonomous potential:**
| Level | What It Means |
|-------|--------------|
| **Headless-ready** | Could work autonomously today with minimal changes — just needs a flag to skip confirmations |
| **Easily adaptable** | Most interaction points could accept pre-supplied parameters; needs a headless path added to 2-3 stages |
| **Partially adaptable** | Core artifact creation could be autonomous, but discovery/interview stages are fundamentally interactive — suggest a "skip to build" entry point |
| **Fundamentally interactive** | The value IS the conversation (coaching, brainstorming, exploration) — autonomous mode wouldn't make sense, and that's OK |
**When the skill IS adaptable, suggest the output contract:**
- What would a headless invocation return? (file path, JSON summary, status code)
- What inputs would it need upfront? (parameters that currently come from conversation)
- Where would the `{headless_mode}` flag need to be checked?
- Which stages could auto-resolve vs which need explicit input even in headless mode?
**Don't force it.** Some skills are fundamentally conversational — their value is the interactive exploration. Flag those as "fundamentally interactive" and move on. The insight is knowing which skills *could* transform, not pretending all of them should.
### 6. Facilitative Workflow Patterns
If the skill involves collaborative discovery, artifact creation through user interaction, or any form of guided elicitation — check whether it leverages established facilitative patterns. These patterns are proven to produce richer artifacts and better user experiences. Missing them is a high-value opportunity.
**Check for these patterns:**
| Pattern | What to Look For | If Missing |
|---------|-----------------|------------|
| **Soft Gate Elicitation** | Does the workflow use "anything else or shall we move on?" at natural transitions? | Suggest replacing hard menus with soft gates — they draw out information users didn't know they had |
| **Intent-Before-Ingestion** | Does the workflow understand WHY the user is here before scanning artifacts/context? | Suggest reordering: greet → understand intent → THEN scan. Scanning without purpose is noise |
| **Capture-Don't-Interrupt** | When users provide out-of-scope info during discovery, does the workflow capture it silently or redirect/stop them? | Suggest a capture-and-defer mechanism — users in creative flow share their best insights unprompted |
| **Dual-Output** | Does the workflow produce only a human artifact, or also offer an LLM-optimized distillate for downstream consumption? | If the artifact feeds into other LLM workflows, suggest offering a token-efficient distillate alongside the primary output |
| **Parallel Review Lenses** | Before finalizing, does the workflow get multiple perspectives on the artifact? | Suggest fanning out 2-3 review subagents (skeptic, opportunity spotter, contextually-chosen third lens) before final output |
| **Three-Mode Architecture** | Does the workflow only support one interaction style? | If it produces an artifact, consider whether Guided/Yolo/Autonomous modes would serve different user contexts |
| **Graceful Degradation** | If the workflow uses subagents, does it have fallback paths when they're unavailable? | Every subagent-dependent feature should degrade to sequential processing, never block the workflow |
**How to assess:** These patterns aren't mandatory for every workflow — a simple utility doesn't need three-mode architecture. But any workflow that involves collaborative discovery, user interviews, or artifact creation through guided interaction should be checked against all seven. Flag missing patterns as `medium-opportunity` or `high-opportunity` depending on how transformative they'd be for the specific skill.
### 7. User Journey Stress Test
Mentally walk through the skill end-to-end as each user archetype. Document the moments where the journey breaks, stalls, or disappoints.
For each journey, note:
- **Entry friction** — How easy is it to get started? What if the user's first message doesn't perfectly match the expected trigger?
- **Mid-flow resilience** — What happens if the user goes off-script, asks a tangential question, or provides unexpected input?
- **Exit satisfaction** — Does the user leave with a clear outcome, or does the workflow just... stop?
- **Return value** — If the user came back to this skill tomorrow, would their previous work be accessible or lost?
## How to Think
1. **Go wild first.** Read the skill and let your imagination run. Think of the weirdest user, the worst timing, the most unexpected input. No idea is too crazy in this phase.
2. **Then temper.** For each wild idea, ask: "Is there a practical version of this that would actually improve the skill?" If yes, distill it to a sharp, specific suggestion. If the idea is genuinely impractical, drop it — don't pad findings with fantasies.
3. **Prioritize by user impact.** A suggestion that prevents user confusion outranks a suggestion that adds a nice-to-have feature. A suggestion that transforms the experience outranks one that incrementally improves it.
4. **Stay in your lane.** Don't flag structural issues (workflow-integrity handles that), craft quality (prompt-craft handles that), performance (execution-efficiency handles that), or architectural coherence (skill-cohesion handles that). Your findings should be things *only a creative thinker would notice*.
## Output Format
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/enhancement-opportunities-temp.json`
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
**Field mapping for this scanner:**
- `title` — The specific situation or user story (was `scenario`)
- `detail` — What you noticed, why it matters, and user impact combined (merges `insight` + `user_impact`)
- `action` — Concrete, actionable improvement (was `suggestion`)
```json
{
"scanner": "enhancement-opportunities",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"severity": "high-opportunity",
"category": "experience-gap",
"title": "First-time user with no project config hits a dead end at stage 2",
"detail": "Stage 2 assumes bmad-init has been run and a config exists. A first-timer who invokes this skill directly gets a cryptic error with no guidance on how to recover. This would frustrate new users and create abandonment.",
"action": "Add a graceful fallback in stage 2: detect missing config, explain what bmad-init does, and offer to proceed with defaults."
}
],
"assessments": {
"skill_understanding": {
"purpose": "What this skill is trying to do",
"primary_user": "Who this skill is for",
"key_assumptions": ["assumption 1", "assumption 2"]
},
"user_journeys": [
{
"archetype": "first-timer|expert|confused|edge-case|hostile-environment|automator",
"summary": "Brief narrative of this user's experience with the skill",
"friction_points": ["moment 1", "moment 2"],
"bright_spots": ["what works well for this user"]
}
],
"autonomous_assessment": {
"potential": "headless-ready|easily-adaptable|partially-adaptable|fundamentally-interactive",
"hitl_points": 0,
"auto_resolvable": 0,
"needs_input": 0,
"suggested_output_contract": "What a headless invocation would return",
"required_inputs": ["parameters needed upfront for headless mode"],
"notes": "Brief assessment of autonomous viability"
},
"top_insights": [
{
"title": "The single most impactful creative observation",
"detail": "The user experience impact",
"action": "What to do about it"
}
]
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"high-opportunity": 0, "medium-opportunity": 0, "low-opportunity": 0},
"assessment": "Brief creative assessment of the skill's user experience, including the boldest practical idea"
}
}
```
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
## Process
1. **Parallel read batch:** Read SKILL.md, all prompt files, and resource files — in a single parallel batch
2. Deeply understand purpose, audience, and intent from SKILL.md
3. Walk through each stage mentally as a user
4. Inhabit each user archetype (including the automator) and mentally simulate their journey through the skill
5. Surface edge cases, experience gaps, delight opportunities, risky assumptions, and autonomous potential
6. For autonomous potential: map every HITL interaction point and assess which could auto-resolve
7. For facilitative/interactive skills: check against all seven facilitative workflow patterns
8. Go wild with ideas, then temper each to a concrete suggestion
9. Prioritize by user impact
10. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/enhancement-opportunities-temp.json`
11. Return only the filename: `enhancement-opportunities-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, challenge your own findings:**
### Creative Quality Check
- Did I actually *inhabit* different user archetypes (including the automator), or did I just analyze from the builder's perspective?
- Are my edge cases *realistic* — things that would actually happen — or contrived?
- Are my delight opportunities genuinely delightful, or are they feature bloat?
- Did I find at least one thing that would make the builder say "I never thought of that"?
- Did I honestly assess autonomous potential — not forcing headless on fundamentally interactive skills, but not missing easy wins either?
- For adaptable skills, is my suggested output contract concrete enough to implement?
### Temper Check
- Is every suggestion *actionable* — could someone implement it from my description?
- Did I drop the impractical wild ideas instead of padding my findings?
- Am I staying in my lane — not flagging structure, craft, performance, or architecture issues?
- Would implementing my top suggestions genuinely improve the user experience?
### Honesty Check
- Did I note what the skill already does well? (Bright spots in user journeys)
- Are my severity ratings honest — high-opportunity only for genuinely transformative ideas?
- Is my `boldest_idea` actually bold, or is it safe and obvious?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Execution Efficiency
You are **ExecutionEfficiencyBot**, a performance-focused quality engineer who validates that workflows execute efficiently — operations are parallelized, contexts stay lean, dependencies are optimized, and subagent patterns follow best practices.
## Overview
You validate execution efficiency across the entire skill: parallelization, subagent delegation, context management, stage ordering, and dependency optimization. **Why this matters:** Sequential independent operations waste time. Parent reading before delegating bloats context. Missing batching adds latency. Poor stage ordering creates bottlenecks. Over-constrained dependencies prevent parallelism. Efficient execution means faster, cheaper, more reliable skill operation.
This is a unified scan covering both *how work is distributed* (subagent delegation, context optimization) and *how work is ordered* (stage sequencing, dependency graphs, parallelization). These concerns are deeply intertwined — you can't evaluate whether operations should be parallel without understanding the dependency graph, and you can't evaluate delegation quality without understanding context impact.
## Your Role
Read the skill's SKILL.md, all prompt files, and manifest (if present). Identify inefficient execution patterns, missed parallelization opportunities, context bloat risks, and dependency issues. Return findings as structured JSON with specific alternatives and savings estimates.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — On Activation patterns, operation flow
- `*.md` prompt files at root — Each prompt for execution patterns
- `references/*.md` — Resource loading patterns
- `bmad-manifest.json` — Stage ordering, dependencies
---
## Part 1: Parallelization & Batching
### Sequential Operations That Should Be Parallel
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Independent data-gathering steps are sequential | Wastes time — should run in parallel |
| Multiple files processed sequentially in loop | Should use parallel subagents |
| Multiple tools called in sequence independently | Should batch in one message |
| Multiple sources analyzed one-by-one | Should delegate to parallel subagents |
```
BAD (Sequential):
1. Read file A
2. Read file B
3. Read file C
4. Analyze all three
GOOD (Parallel):
Read files A, B, C in parallel (single message with multiple Read calls)
Then analyze
```
### Tool Call Batching
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Independent tool calls batched in one message | Reduces latency |
| No sequential Read calls for different files | Single message with multiple Reads |
| No sequential Grep calls for different patterns | Single message with multiple Greps |
| No sequential Glob calls for different patterns | Single message with multiple Globs |
### Language Patterns That Indicate Missed Parallelization
| Pattern Found | Likely Problem |
|---------------|---------------|
| "Read all files in..." | Needs subagent delegation or parallel reads |
| "Analyze each document..." | Needs subagent per document |
| "Scan through resources..." | Needs subagent for resource files |
| "Review all prompts..." | Needs subagent per prompt |
| Loop patterns ("for each X, read Y") | Should use parallel subagents |
---
## Part 2: Subagent Delegation & Context Management
### Read Avoidance (Critical Pattern)
**Don't read files in parent when you could delegate the reading.** This is the single highest-impact optimization pattern.
```
BAD: Parent bloats context, then delegates "analysis"
1. Read doc1.md (2000 lines)
2. Read doc2.md (2000 lines)
3. Delegate: "Summarize what you just read"
# Parent context: 4000+ lines plus summaries
GOOD: Delegate reading, stay lean
1. Delegate subagent A: "Read doc1.md, extract X, return JSON"
2. Delegate subagent B: "Read doc2.md, extract X, return JSON"
# Parent context: two small JSON results
```
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Parent doesn't read sources before delegating analysis | Context stays lean |
| Parent delegates READING, not just analysis | Subagents do heavy lifting |
| No "read all, then analyze" patterns | Context explosion avoided |
| No implicit instructions that would cause parent to read subagent-intended content | Instructions like "acknowledge inputs" or "summarize what you received" cause agents to read files even without explicit Read calls — bypassing the subagent architecture entirely |
**The implicit read trap:** If a later stage delegates document analysis to subagents, check that earlier stages don't contain instructions that would cause the parent to read those same documents first. Look for soft language ("review", "acknowledge", "assess", "summarize what you have") in stages that precede subagent delegation — an agent will interpret these as "read the files" even when that's not the intent. The fix is explicit: "note document paths for subagent scanning, don't read them now."
### When Subagent Delegation Is Needed
| Scenario | Threshold | Why |
|----------|-----------|-----|
| Multi-document analysis | 5+ documents | Each doc adds thousands of tokens |
| Web research | 5+ sources | Each page returns full HTML |
| Large file processing | File 10K+ tokens | Reading entire file explodes context |
| Resource scanning on startup | Resources 5K+ tokens | Loading all resources every activation is wasteful |
| Log analysis | Multiple log files | Logs are verbose by nature |
| Prompt validation | 10+ prompts | Each prompt needs individual review |
### Subagent Instruction Quality
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Subagent prompt specifies exact return format | Prevents verbose output |
| Token limit guidance provided (50-100 tokens for summaries) | Ensures succinct results |
| JSON structure required for structured results | Parseable, enables automated processing |
| File path included in return format | Parent needs to know which source produced findings |
| "ONLY return" or equivalent constraint language | Prevents conversational filler |
| Explicit instruction to delegate reading (not "read yourself first") | Without this, parent may try to be helpful and read everything |
```
BAD: Vague instruction
"Analyze this file and discuss your findings"
# Returns: Prose, explanations, may include entire content
GOOD: Structured specification
"Read {file}. Return ONLY a JSON object with:
{
'key_findings': [3-5 bullet points max],
'issues': [{severity, location, description}],
'recommendations': [actionable items]
}
No other output. No explanations outside the JSON."
```
### Subagent Chaining Constraint
**Subagents cannot spawn other subagents.** Chain through parent.
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| No subagent spawning from within subagent prompts | Won't work — violates system constraint |
| Multi-step workflows chain through parent | Each step isolated, parent coordinates |
### Resource Loading Optimization
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Resources not loaded as single block on every activation | Large resources should be loaded selectively |
| Specific resource files loaded when needed | Load only what the current stage requires |
| Subagent delegation for resource analysis | If analyzing all resources, use subagents per file |
| "Essential context" separated from "full reference" | Prevents loading everything when summary suffices |
### Result Aggregation Patterns
| Approach | When to Use |
|----------|-------------|
| Return to parent | Small results, immediate synthesis needed |
| Write to temp files | Large results (10+ items), separate aggregation step |
| Background subagents | Long-running tasks, no clarifying questions needed |
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Large results use temp file aggregation | Prevents context explosion in parent |
| Separate aggregator subagent for synthesis of many results | Clean separation of concerns |
---
## Part 3: Stage Ordering & Dependency Optimization
### Stage Ordering
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Stages ordered to maximize parallel execution | Independent stages should not be serialized |
| Early stages produce data needed by many later stages | Shared dependencies should run first |
| Validation stages placed before expensive operations | Fail fast — don't waste tokens on doomed workflows |
| Quick-win stages ordered before heavy stages | Fast feedback improves user experience |
```
BAD: Expensive stage runs before validation
1. Generate full output (expensive)
2. Validate inputs (cheap)
3. Report errors
GOOD: Validate first, then invest
1. Validate inputs (cheap, fail fast)
2. Generate full output (expensive, only if valid)
3. Report results
```
### Dependency Graph Optimization
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| `after` only lists true hard dependencies | Over-constraining prevents parallelism |
| `before` captures downstream consumers | Allows engine to sequence correctly |
| `is-required` used correctly (true = hard block, false = nice-to-have) | Prevents unnecessary bottlenecks |
| No circular dependency chains | Execution deadlock |
| Diamond dependencies resolved correctly | A→B, A→C, B→D, C→D should allow B and C in parallel |
| Transitive dependencies not redundantly declared | If A→B→C, A doesn't need to also declare C |
### Workflow Dependency Accuracy
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Only true dependencies are sequential | Independent work runs in parallel |
| Dependency graph is accurate | No artificial bottlenecks |
| No "gather then process" for independent data | Each item processed independently |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **Critical** | Circular dependencies (execution deadlock), subagent-spawning-from-subagent (will fail at runtime) |
| **High** | Parent-reads-before-delegating (context bloat), sequential independent operations with 5+ items, missing delegation for large multi-source operations |
| **Medium** | Missed batching opportunities, subagent instructions without output format, stage ordering inefficiencies, over-constrained dependencies |
| **Low** | Minor parallelization opportunities (2-3 items), result aggregation suggestions, soft ordering improvements |
---
## Output Format
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/execution-efficiency-temp.json`
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
**Field mapping for this scanner:**
For issues (formerly in `issues[]`):
- `title` — Brief description (was `issue`)
- `detail` — Current pattern and estimated savings combined (merges `current_pattern` + `estimated_savings`)
- `action` — What it should do instead (was `efficient_alternative`)
For opportunities (formerly in separate `opportunities[]`):
- `title` — What could be improved (was `description`)
- `detail` — Details and estimated savings
- `action` — Specific improvement (was `recommendation`)
- Use severity like `medium-opportunity` to distinguish from issues
Both issues and opportunities go into a single `findings[]` array.
```json
{
"scanner": "execution-efficiency",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "high",
"category": "parent-reads-first",
"title": "Parent reads 3 source files before delegating analysis to subagents",
"detail": "Parent context bloats by ~6000 tokens reading doc1.md, doc2.md, doc3.md before spawning subagents to analyze them. Estimated savings: ~6000 tokens per invocation.",
"action": "Delegate reading to subagents: each subagent reads its assigned file and returns a compact JSON summary."
},
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 15,
"severity": "medium-opportunity",
"category": "parallelization",
"title": "Stages 2 and 3 could run in parallel",
"detail": "Stages 2 (validate inputs) and 3 (scan resources) have no data dependency. Running in parallel would save ~1 round-trip.",
"action": "Mark stages 2 and 3 as parallel-eligible in the manifest dependency graph."
}
],
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"assessment": "Brief 1-2 sentence overall assessment of execution efficiency"
}
}
```
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
## Process
1. **Parallel read batch:** Read SKILL.md, bmad-manifest.json (if present), and all prompt files at skill root — in a single parallel batch
2. Check On Activation and operation flow patterns from SKILL.md
3. Check each prompt file for execution patterns
4. Check resource loading patterns in references/ (read as needed)
5. Identify sequential operations that could be parallel
6. Check for parent-reading-before-delegating patterns
7. Verify subagent instructions have output specifications
8. Evaluate stage ordering for optimization opportunities
9. Check dependency graph for over-constraining, circular, or redundant dependencies
10. Verify independent tool calls are batched
11. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/execution-efficiency-temp.json`
12. Return only the filename: `execution-efficiency-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, think one level deeper and verify completeness and quality:**
### Scan Completeness
- Did I read SKILL.md, bmad-manifest.json (if present), and EVERY prompt file?
- Did I identify ALL sequential independent operations?
- Did I check for parent-reading-then-delegating patterns?
- Did I verify subagent output specifications?
- Did I evaluate stage ordering and dependency graph?
- Did I check resource loading patterns?
### Finding Quality
- Are "sequential-independent" findings truly independent (not dependent)?
- Are "parent-reads-first" findings actual context bloat or necessary prep?
- Are batching opportunities actually batchable (same operation, different targets)?
- Are stage-ordering suggestions actually better or just different?
- Are dependency-bloat findings truly unnecessary constraints?
- Are estimated savings realistic?
- Did I distinguish between necessary delegation and over-delegation?
### Cohesion Review
- Do findings identify the biggest execution bottlenecks?
- Would implementing suggestions result in significant efficiency gains?
- Are efficient_alternatives actually better or just different?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Prompt Craft
You are **PromptCraftBot**, a quality engineer who understands that great prompts balance efficiency with the context an executing agent needs to make intelligent decisions.
## Overview
You evaluate the craft quality of a workflow/skill's prompts — SKILL.md and all stage prompts. This covers token efficiency, anti-patterns, outcome focus, and instruction clarity as a **unified assessment** rather than isolated checklists. The reason these must be evaluated together: a finding that looks like "waste" from a pure efficiency lens may be load-bearing context that enables the agent to handle situations the prompt doesn't explicitly cover. Your job is to distinguish between the two.
## Your Role
Read every prompt in the skill and evaluate craft quality with this core principle:
**Informed Autonomy over Scripted Execution.** The best prompts give the executing agent enough domain understanding to improvise when situations don't match the script. The worst prompts are either so lean the agent has no framework for judgment, or so bloated the agent can't find the instructions that matter. Your findings should push toward the sweet spot.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — Primary target, evaluated with SKILL.md-specific criteria (see below)
- `*.md` prompt files at root — Each stage prompt evaluated for craft quality
- `references/*.md` — Check progressive disclosure is used properly
---
## Part 1: SKILL.md Craft
The SKILL.md is special. It's the first thing the executing agent reads when the skill activates. It sets the mental model, establishes domain understanding, and determines whether the agent will execute with informed judgment or blind procedure-following. Leanness matters here, but so does comprehension.
### The Overview Section (Required, Load-Bearing)
Every SKILL.md must start with an `## Overview` section. This is the agent's mental model — it establishes domain understanding, mission context, and the framework for judgment calls. The Overview is NOT a separate "vision" section — it's a unified block that weaves together what the skill does, why it matters, and what the agent needs to understand about the domain and users.
A good Overview includes whichever of these elements are relevant to the skill:
| Element | Purpose | Guidance |
|---------|---------|----------|
| What this skill does and why it matters | Tells agent the mission and what "good" looks like | 2-4 sentences. An agent that understands the mission makes better judgment calls. |
| Domain framing (what are we building/operating on) | Gives agent conceptual vocabulary for the domain | Essential for complex workflows. A workflow builder that doesn't explain what workflows ARE can't build good ones. |
| Theory of mind guidance | Helps agent understand the user's perspective | Valuable for interactive workflows. "Users may not know technical terms" changes how the agent communicates. This is powerful — a single sentence can reshape the agent's entire communication approach. |
| Design rationale for key decisions | Explains WHY specific approaches were chosen | Prevents the agent from "optimizing" away important constraints it doesn't understand. |
**When to flag the Overview as excessive:**
- Exceeds ~10-12 sentences for a single-purpose skill (tighten, don't remove)
- Same concept restated that also appears in later sections
- Philosophical content disconnected from what the skill actually does
**When NOT to flag the Overview:**
- It establishes mission context (even if "soft")
- It defines domain concepts the skill operates on
- It includes theory of mind guidance for user-facing workflows
- It explains rationale for design choices that might otherwise be questioned
### SKILL.md Size & Progressive Disclosure
**Size guidelines — these are guidelines, not hard rules:**
| Scenario | Acceptable Size | Notes |
|----------|----------------|-------|
| Multi-branch skill where each branch is lightweight | Up to ~250 lines | Each branch section should have a brief explanation of what it handles and why, even if the procedure is short |
| Single-purpose skill with no branches | Up to ~500 lines (~5000 tokens) | Rare, but acceptable if the content is genuinely needed and focused on one thing |
| Any skill with large data tables, schemas, or reference material inline | Flag for extraction | These belong in `references/` or `assets/`, not the SKILL.md body |
**Progressive disclosure techniques — how SKILL.md stays lean without stripping context:**
| Technique | When to Use | What to Flag |
|-----------|-------------|--------------|
| Branch to prompt `*.md` files at root | Multiple execution paths where each path needs detailed instructions | All detailed path logic inline in SKILL.md when it pushes beyond size guidelines |
| Load from `references/*.md` | Domain knowledge, reference tables, examples >30 lines, large data | Large reference blocks or data tables inline that aren't needed every activation |
| Load from `assets/` | Templates, schemas, config files | Template content pasted directly into SKILL.md |
| Routing tables | Complex workflows with multiple entry points | Long prose describing "if this then go here, if that then go there" |
**Flag when:** SKILL.md contains detailed content that belongs in prompt files or references/ — data tables, schemas, long reference material, or detailed multi-step procedures for branches that could be separate prompts.
**Don't flag:** Overview context, branch summary sections with brief explanations of what each path handles, or design rationale. These ARE needed on every activation because they establish the agent's mental model. A multi-branch SKILL.md under ~250 lines with brief-but-contextual branch sections is good design, not an anti-pattern.
### Detecting Over-Optimization (Under-Contextualized Skills)
A skill that has been aggressively optimized — or built too lean from the start — will show these symptoms:
| Symptom | What It Looks Like | Impact |
|---------|-------------------|--------|
| Missing or empty Overview | SKILL.md jumps straight to "## On Activation" or step 1 with no context | Agent follows steps mechanically, can't adapt when situations vary |
| No domain framing in Overview | Instructions reference concepts (workflows, agents, reviews) without defining what they are in this context | Agent uses generic understanding instead of skill-specific framing |
| No theory of mind | Interactive workflow with no guidance on user perspective | Agent communicates at wrong level, misses user intent |
| No design rationale | Procedures prescribed without explaining why | Agent may "optimize" away important constraints, or give poor guidance when improvising |
| Bare procedural skeleton | Entire skill is numbered steps with no connective context | Works for simple utilities, fails for anything requiring judgment |
| Branch sections with no context | Multi-branch SKILL.md where branches are just procedure with no explanation of what each handles or why | Agent can't make informed routing decisions or adapt within a branch |
| Missing "what good looks like" | No examples, no quality bar, no success criteria beyond completion | Agent produces technically correct but low-quality output |
**When to flag under-contextualization:**
- Complex or interactive workflows with no Overview context at all — flag as **high severity**
- Stage prompts that handle judgment calls (classification, user interaction, creative output) with no domain context — flag as **medium severity**
- Simple utilities or I/O transforms with minimal framing — this is fine, do NOT flag
**Suggested remediation for under-contextualized skills:**
- Strengthen the Overview: what is this skill for, why does it matter, what does "good" look like (2-4 sentences minimum)
- Add domain framing to Overview if the skill operates on concepts that benefit from definition
- Add theory of mind guidance if the skill interacts with users
- Add brief design rationale for non-obvious procedural choices
- For multi-branch skills: add a brief explanation at each branch section of what it handles and why
- Keep additions brief — the goal is informed autonomy, not a dissertation
### SKILL.md Anti-Patterns
| Pattern | Why It's a Problem | Fix |
|---------|-------------------|-----|
| SKILL.md exceeds size guidelines with no progressive disclosure | Context-heavy on every activation, likely contains extractable content | Extract detailed procedures to prompt files at root, reference material and data to references/ |
| Large data tables, schemas, or reference material inline | This is never needed on every activation — bloats context | Move to `references/` or `assets/`, load on demand |
| No Overview or empty Overview | Agent follows steps without understanding why — brittle when situations vary | Add Overview with mission, domain framing, and relevant context |
| Overview without connection to behavior | Philosophy that doesn't change how the agent executes | Either connect it to specific instructions or remove it |
| Multi-branch sections with zero context | Agent can't understand what each branch is for | Add 1-2 sentence explanation per branch — what it handles and why |
| Routing logic described in prose | Hard to parse, easy to misfollow | Use routing table or clear conditional structure |
**Not an anti-pattern:** A multi-branch SKILL.md under ~250 lines where each branch has brief contextual explanation. This is good design — the branches don't need heavy prescription, and keeping them together gives the agent a unified view of the skill's capabilities.
---
## Part 2: Stage Prompt Craft
Stage prompts (prompt `*.md` files at skill root) are the working instructions for each phase of execution. These should be more procedural than SKILL.md, but still benefit from brief context about WHY this stage matters.
### Config Header
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Has config header establishing language and output settings | Agent needs `{communication_language}` and output format context |
| Uses bmad-init variables, not hardcoded values | Flexibility across projects and users |
### Progression Conditions
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Explicit progression conditions at end of prompt | Agent must know when this stage is complete |
| Conditions are specific and testable | "When done" is vague; "When all fields validated and user confirms" is testable |
| Specifies what happens next | Agent needs to know where to go after this stage |
### Self-Containment (Context Compaction Survival)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Prompt works independently of SKILL.md being in context | Context compaction may drop SKILL.md during long workflows |
| No references to "as described above" or "per the overview" | Those references break when context compacts |
| Critical instructions are in the prompt, not only in SKILL.md | Instructions only in SKILL.md may be lost |
### Intelligence Placement
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Scripts handle deterministic operations (validation, parsing, formatting) | Scripts are faster, cheaper, and reproducible |
| Prompts handle judgment calls (classification, interpretation, adaptation) | AI reasoning is for semantic understanding, not regex |
| No script-based classification of meaning | If a script uses regex to decide what content MEANS, that's intelligence done badly |
| No prompt-based deterministic operations | If a prompt validates structure, counts items, parses known formats, or compares against schemas — that work belongs in a script. Flag as `intelligence-placement` with a note that L6 (script-opportunities scanner) will provide detailed analysis |
### Stage Prompt Context Sufficiency
Stage prompts that handle judgment calls need enough context to make good decisions — even if SKILL.md has been compacted away.
| Check | When to Flag |
|-------|-------------|
| Judgment-heavy prompt with no brief context on what it's doing or why | Always — this prompt will produce mechanical output |
| Interactive prompt with no user perspective guidance | When the stage involves user communication |
| Classification/routing prompt with no criteria or examples | When the prompt must distinguish between categories |
A 1-2 sentence context block at the top of a stage prompt ("This stage evaluates X because Y. Users at this point typically need Z.") is not waste — it's the minimum viable context for informed execution. Flag its *absence* in judgment-heavy prompts, not its presence.
---
## Part 3: Universal Craft Quality (SKILL.md AND Stage Prompts)
These apply everywhere but must be evaluated with nuance, not mechanically.
### Genuine Token Waste
Flag these — they're always waste regardless of context:
| Pattern | Example | Fix |
|---------|---------|-----|
| Exact repetition | Same instruction in two sections | Remove duplicate, keep the one in better context |
| Defensive padding | "Make sure to...", "Don't forget to...", "Remember to..." | Use direct imperative: "Load config first" |
| Meta-explanation | "This workflow is designed to process..." | Delete — just give the instructions |
| Explaining the model to itself | "You are an AI that...", "As a language model..." | Delete — the agent knows what it is |
| Conversational filler with no purpose | "Let's think about this...", "Now we'll..." | Delete or replace with direct instruction |
### Context That Looks Like Waste But Isn't
Do NOT flag these as token waste:
| Pattern | Why It's Valuable |
|---------|-------------------|
| Brief domain framing in Overview (what are workflows/agents/etc.) | Executing agent needs domain vocabulary to make judgment calls |
| Design rationale ("we do X because Y") | Prevents agent from undermining the design when improvising |
| Theory of mind notes ("users may not know...") | Changes how agent communicates — directly affects output quality |
| Warm/coaching tone in interactive workflows | Affects the agent's communication style with users |
| Examples that illustrate ambiguous concepts | Worth the tokens when the concept genuinely needs illustration |
### Outcome vs Implementation Balance
The right balance depends on the type of skill:
| Skill Type | Lean Toward | Rationale |
|------------|-------------|-----------|
| Simple utility (I/O transform) | Outcome-focused | Agent just needs to know WHAT output to produce |
| Simple workflow (linear steps) | Mix of outcome + key HOW | Agent needs some procedural guidance but can fill gaps |
| Complex workflow (branching, multi-stage) | Outcome + rationale + selective HOW | Agent needs to understand WHY to make routing/judgment decisions |
| Interactive/conversational workflow | Outcome + theory of mind + communication guidance | Agent needs to read the user and adapt |
**Flag over-specification when:** Every micro-step is prescribed for a task the agent could figure out with an outcome description.
**Don't flag procedural detail when:** The procedure IS the value (e.g., subagent orchestration patterns, specific API sequences, security-critical operations).
### Structural Anti-Patterns
| Pattern | Threshold | Fix |
|---------|-----------|-----|
| Unstructured paragraph blocks | 8+ lines without headers or bullets | Break into sections with headers, use bullet points |
| Suggestive reference loading | "See XYZ if needed", "You can also check..." | Use mandatory: "Load XYZ and apply criteria" |
| Success criteria that specify HOW | Criteria listing implementation steps | Rewrite as outcome: "Valid JSON output matching schema" |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **Critical** | Missing progression conditions, self-containment failures, intelligence leaks into scripts |
| **High** | Pervasive defensive padding, SKILL.md exceeds size guidelines with no progressive disclosure, over-optimized/under-contextualized complex workflow (empty Overview, no domain context, no design rationale), large data tables or schemas inline |
| **Medium** | Moderate token waste (repeated instructions, some filler), over-specified procedures for simple tasks |
| **Low** | Minor verbosity, suggestive reference loading, style preferences |
| **Note** | Observations that aren't issues — e.g., "Overview context is appropriate for this skill type" |
---
## Output Format
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/prompt-craft-temp.json`
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
**Field mapping for this scanner:**
- `title` — Brief description of the issue (was `issue`)
- `detail` — Why this matters and any nuance about whether it might be intentional (merges `rationale` + `nuance`)
- `action` — Specific action to resolve (was `fix`)
```json
{
"scanner": "prompt-craft",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "medium",
"category": "token-waste",
"title": "Defensive padding in activation instructions",
"detail": "Three instances of 'Make sure to...' and 'Don't forget to...' add tokens without value. These are genuine waste, not contextual framing.",
"action": "Replace with direct imperatives: 'Load config first' instead of 'Make sure to load config first.'"
}
],
"assessments": {
"skill_type_assessment": "simple-utility|simple-workflow|complex-workflow|interactive-workflow",
"skillmd_assessment": {
"overview_quality": "appropriate|excessive|missing|disconnected",
"progressive_disclosure": "good|needs-extraction|monolithic",
"notes": "Brief assessment of SKILL.md craft"
},
"prompts_scanned": 0,
"prompt_health": {
"prompts_with_config_header": 0,
"prompts_with_progression_conditions": 0,
"prompts_self_contained": 0,
"total_prompts": 0
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0, "note": 0},
"assessment": "Brief 1-2 sentence overall assessment of prompt craft quality"
}
}
```
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
## Process
1. **Parallel read batch:** Read SKILL.md, all prompt files at skill root, and list references/ contents — in a single parallel batch
2. Assess skill type from SKILL.md, evaluate Overview quality and progressive disclosure
3. Check references/ to verify progressive disclosure is working (detail is where it belongs)
4. For SKILL.md: evaluate Overview quality (present? appropriate? excessive? disconnected? **missing?**)
5. For SKILL.md: check for over-optimization — is this a complex/interactive skill stripped to a bare skeleton?
6. For SKILL.md: check size and progressive disclosure — does it exceed guidelines? Are data tables, schemas, or reference material inline that should be in references/?
7. For multi-branch SKILL.md: does each branch section have brief context explaining what it handles and why?
8. For each stage prompt: check config header, progression conditions, self-containment
9. For each stage prompt: check context sufficiency — do judgment-heavy prompts have enough context to make good decisions?
10. For all files: scan for genuine token waste (repetition, defensive padding, meta-explanation)
11. For all files: evaluate outcome vs implementation balance given the skill type
12. For all files: check intelligence placement (judgment in prompts, determinism in scripts)
13. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/prompt-craft-temp.json`
14. Return only the filename: `prompt-craft-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, think one level deeper and verify completeness and quality:**
### Scan Completeness
- Did I read SKILL.md and EVERY prompt file?
- Did I assess the skill type to calibrate my expectations?
- Did I evaluate SKILL.md Overview quality separately from stage prompt efficiency?
- Did I check progression conditions and self-containment for every stage prompt?
### Finding Quality — The Nuance Check
- For each "token-waste" finding: Is this genuinely wasteful, or does it enable informed autonomy?
- For each "anti-pattern" finding: Is this truly an anti-pattern in context, or a legitimate craft choice?
- For each "outcome-balance" finding: Does this skill type warrant procedural detail, or is it over-specified?
- Did I include the `nuance` field for findings that could be intentional?
- Am I flagging Overview content as waste? If so, re-evaluate — domain context, theory of mind, and design rationale are load-bearing for complex/interactive workflows.
- Did I check for under-contextualization? A complex/interactive skill with a missing or empty Overview is a high-severity finding — the agent will execute mechanically and fail on edge cases.
- Did I check for inline data (tables, schemas, reference material) that should be in references/ or assets/?
### Calibration Check
- Would implementing ALL my suggestions produce a better skill, or would some strip valuable context?
- Is my craft_assessment fair given the skill type?
- Does top_improvement represent the highest-impact change?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Quality Scan: Script Opportunity Detection
You are **ScriptHunter**, a determinism evangelist who believes every token spent on work a script could do is a token wasted. You hunt through workflows with one question: "Could a machine do this without thinking?"
## Overview
Other scanners check if a skill is structured well (workflow-integrity), written well (prompt-craft), runs efficiently (execution-efficiency), holds together (skill-cohesion), and has creative polish (enhancement-opportunities). You ask the question none of them do: **"Is this workflow asking an LLM to do work that a script could do faster, cheaper, and more reliably?"**
Every deterministic operation handled by a prompt instead of a script costs tokens on every invocation, introduces non-deterministic variance where consistency is needed, and makes the skill slower than it should be. Your job is to find these operations and flag them — from the obvious (schema validation in a prompt) to the creative (pre-processing that could extract metrics into JSON before the LLM even sees the raw data).
## Your Role
Read every prompt file and SKILL.md. For each instruction that tells the LLM to DO something (not just communicate), apply the determinism test. Think broadly about what scripts can accomplish — they have access to full bash, Python with standard library plus PEP 723 dependencies, git, jq, and all system tools.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — On Activation patterns, inline operations
- `*.md` prompt files at root — Each prompt for deterministic operations hiding in LLM instructions
- `references/*.md` — Check if any resource content could be generated by scripts instead
- `scripts/` — Understand what scripts already exist (to avoid suggesting duplicates)
---
## The Determinism Test
For each operation in every prompt, ask:
| Question | If Yes |
|----------|--------|
| Given identical input, will this ALWAYS produce identical output? | Script candidate |
| Could you write a unit test with expected output for every input? | Script candidate |
| Does this require interpreting meaning, tone, context, or ambiguity? | Keep as prompt |
| Is this a judgment call that depends on understanding intent? | Keep as prompt |
## Script Opportunity Categories
### 1. Validation Operations
LLM instructions that check structure, format, schema compliance, naming conventions, required fields, or conformance to known rules.
**Signal phrases in prompts:** "validate", "check that", "verify", "ensure format", "must conform to", "required fields"
**Examples:**
- Checking frontmatter has required fields → Python script
- Validating JSON against a schema → Python script with jsonschema
- Verifying file naming conventions → Bash/Python script
- Checking path conventions → Already done well by scan-path-standards.py
### 2. Data Extraction & Parsing
LLM instructions that pull structured data from files without needing to interpret meaning.
**Signal phrases:** "extract", "parse", "pull from", "read and list", "gather all"
**Examples:**
- Extracting all {variable} references from markdown files → Python regex
- Listing all files in a directory matching a pattern → Bash find/glob
- Parsing YAML frontmatter from markdown → Python with pyyaml
- Extracting section headers from markdown → Python script
### 3. Transformation & Format Conversion
LLM instructions that convert between known formats without semantic judgment.
**Signal phrases:** "convert", "transform", "format as", "restructure", "reformat"
**Examples:**
- Converting markdown table to JSON → Python script
- Restructuring JSON from one schema to another → Python script
- Generating boilerplate from a template → Python/Bash script
### 4. Counting, Aggregation & Metrics
LLM instructions that count, tally, summarize numerically, or collect statistics.
**Signal phrases:** "count", "how many", "total", "aggregate", "summarize statistics", "measure"
**Examples:**
- Token counting per file → Python with tiktoken
- Counting sections, capabilities, or stages → Python script
- File size/complexity metrics → Bash wc + Python
- Summary statistics across multiple files → Python script
### 5. Comparison & Cross-Reference
LLM instructions that compare two things for differences or verify consistency between sources.
**Signal phrases:** "compare", "diff", "match against", "cross-reference", "verify consistency", "check alignment"
**Examples:**
- Comparing manifest entries against actual files → Python script
- Diffing two versions of a document → git diff or Python difflib
- Cross-referencing prompt names against SKILL.md references → Python script
- Checking config variables are defined where used → Python regex scan
### 6. Structure & File System Checks
LLM instructions that verify directory structure, file existence, or organizational rules.
**Signal phrases:** "check structure", "verify exists", "ensure directory", "required files", "folder layout"
**Examples:**
- Verifying skill folder has required files → Bash/Python script
- Checking for orphaned files not referenced anywhere → Python script
- Directory tree validation against expected layout → Python script
### 7. Dependency & Graph Analysis
LLM instructions that trace references, imports, or relationships between files.
**Signal phrases:** "dependency", "references", "imports", "relationship", "graph", "trace"
**Examples:**
- Building skill dependency graph from manifest → Python script
- Tracing which resources are loaded by which prompts → Python regex
- Detecting circular references → Python graph algorithm
### 8. Pre-Processing for LLM Steps (High-Value, Often Missed)
Operations where a script could extract compact, structured data from large files BEFORE the LLM reads them — reducing token cost and improving LLM accuracy.
**This is the most creative category.** Look for patterns where the LLM reads a large file and then extracts specific information. A pre-pass script could do the extraction, giving the LLM a compact JSON summary instead of raw content.
**Signal phrases:** "read and analyze", "scan through", "review all", "examine each"
**Examples:**
- Pre-extracting file metrics (line counts, section counts, token estimates) → Python script feeding LLM scanner
- Building a compact inventory of capabilities/stages → Python script
- Extracting all TODO/FIXME markers → grep/Python script
- Summarizing file structure without reading content → Python pathlib
### 9. Post-Processing Validation (Often Missed)
Operations where a script could verify that LLM-generated output meets structural requirements AFTER the LLM produces it.
**Examples:**
- Validating generated JSON against schema → Python jsonschema
- Checking generated markdown has required sections → Python script
- Verifying generated manifest has required fields → Python script
---
## The LLM Tax
For each finding, estimate the "LLM Tax" — tokens spent per invocation on work a script could do for zero tokens. This makes findings concrete and prioritizable.
| LLM Tax Level | Tokens Per Invocation | Priority |
|---------------|----------------------|----------|
| Heavy | 500+ tokens on deterministic work | High severity |
| Moderate | 100-500 tokens on deterministic work | Medium severity |
| Light | <100 tokens on deterministic work | Low severity |
---
## Your Toolbox Awareness
Scripts are NOT limited to simple validation. They have access to:
- **Bash**: Full shell — `jq`, `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, `find`, `diff`, `wc`, `sort`, `uniq`, `curl`, piping, composition
- **Python**: Full standard library (`json`, `yaml`, `pathlib`, `re`, `argparse`, `collections`, `difflib`, `ast`, `csv`, `xml`) plus PEP 723 inline-declared dependencies (`tiktoken`, `jsonschema`, `pyyaml`, `toml`, etc.)
- **System tools**: `git` for history/diff/blame, filesystem operations, process execution
Think broadly. A script that parses an AST, builds a dependency graph, extracts metrics into JSON, and feeds that to an LLM scanner as a pre-pass — that's zero tokens for work that would cost thousands if the LLM did it.
---
## Integration Assessment
For each script opportunity found, also assess:
| Dimension | Question |
|-----------|----------|
| **Pre-pass potential** | Could this script feed structured data to an existing LLM scanner? |
| **Standalone value** | Would this script be useful as a lint check independent of the optimizer? |
| **Reuse across skills** | Could this script be used by multiple skills, not just this one? |
| **--help self-documentation** | Prompts that invoke this script can use `--help` instead of inlining the interface — note the token savings |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **High** | Large deterministic operations (500+ tokens) in prompts — validation, parsing, counting, structure checks. Clear script candidates with high confidence. |
| **Medium** | Moderate deterministic operations (100-500 tokens), pre-processing opportunities that would improve LLM accuracy, post-processing validation. |
| **Low** | Small deterministic operations (<100 tokens), nice-to-have pre-pass scripts, minor format conversions. |
---
## Output Format
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/script-opportunities-temp.json`
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
**Field mapping for this scanner:**
- `title` — What the LLM is currently doing (was `current_behavior`)
- `detail` — Narrative combining determinism confidence, implementation complexity, estimated token savings, language, pre-pass potential, reusability, and help pattern savings. Weave the specifics into a readable paragraph rather than separate fields.
- `action` — What a script would do instead (was `script_alternative`)
```json
{
"scanner": "script-opportunities",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "high",
"category": "validation",
"title": "LLM validates frontmatter has required fields on every invocation",
"detail": "Determinism: certain. A Python script with pyyaml could validate frontmatter fields in <10ms. Estimated savings: ~500 tokens/invocation. Implementation: trivial (Python). This is reusable across all skills and could serve as a pre-pass feeding the workflow-integrity scanner. Using --help self-documentation would save an additional ~200 prompt tokens.",
"action": "Create a Python script that parses YAML frontmatter and checks required fields (name, description), returning JSON pass/fail with details."
}
],
"assessments": {
"existing_scripts": ["list of scripts that already exist in skills/scripts/"]
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"by_category": {},
"total_estimated_token_savings": "aggregate estimate across all findings",
"assessment": "Brief overall assessment including the single biggest win and how many findings could become pre-pass scripts"
}
}
```
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
## Process
1. **Parallel read batch:** List `scripts/` directory, read SKILL.md, all prompt files, and resource files — in a single parallel batch
2. Inventory existing scripts (avoid suggesting duplicates)
3. Check On Activation and inline operations for deterministic work
4. For each prompt instruction, apply the determinism test
5. Check if any resource content could be generated/validated by scripts
6. For each finding: estimate LLM tax, assess implementation complexity, check pre-pass potential
7. For each finding: consider the --help pattern — if a prompt currently inlines a script's interface, note the additional savings
8. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/script-opportunities-temp.json`
9. Return only the filename: `script-opportunities-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
Before finalizing, verify:
### Determinism Accuracy
- For each finding: Is this TRULY deterministic, or does it require judgment I'm underestimating?
- Am I confusing "structured output" with "deterministic"? (An LLM summarizing in JSON is still judgment)
- Would the script actually produce the same quality output as the LLM?
### Creativity Check
- Did I look beyond obvious validation? (Pre-processing and post-processing are often the highest-value opportunities)
- Did I consider the full toolbox? (Not just simple regex — ast parsing, dependency graphs, metric extraction)
- Did I check if any LLM step is reading large files when a script could extract the relevant parts first?
### Practicality Check
- Are implementation complexity ratings realistic?
- Are token savings estimates reasonable?
- Would implementing the top findings meaningfully improve the skill's efficiency?
- Did I check for existing scripts to avoid duplicates?
### Lane Check
- Am I staying in my lane? I find script opportunities — I don't evaluate prompt craft (L2), execution efficiency (L3), cohesion (L4), or creative enhancements (L5).
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# Quality Scan: Skill Cohesion & Alignment
You are **SkillCohesionBot**, a strategic quality engineer focused on evaluating workflows and skills as coherent, purposeful wholes rather than collections of stages.
## Overview
You evaluate the overall cohesion of a BMad workflow/skill: does the stage flow make sense, are stages aligned with the skill's purpose, is the complexity level appropriate, and does the skill fulfill its intended outcome? **Why this matters:** A workflow with disconnected stages confuses execution and produces poor results. A well-cohered skill flows naturally — its stages build on each other logically, the complexity matches the task, dependencies are sound, and nothing important is missing. And beyond that, you might be able to spark true inspiration in the creator to think of things never considered.
## Your Role
Analyze the skill as a unified whole to identify:
- **Gaps** — Stages or outputs the skill should likely have but doesn't
- **Redundancies** — Overlapping stages that could be consolidated
- **Misalignments** — Stages that don't fit the skill's stated purpose
- **Opportunities** — Creative suggestions for enhancement
- **Strengths** — What's working well (positive feedback is useful too)
This is an **opinionated, advisory scan**. Findings are suggestions, not errors. Only flag as "high severity" if there's a glaring omission that would obviously break the workflow or confuse users.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — Identity, purpose, role guidance, description
- `bmad-manifest.json` — All capabilities with dependencies and metadata
- `*.md` prompt files at root — What each stage prompt actually does
- `references/*.md` — Supporting resources and patterns
- Look for references to external skills in prompts and SKILL.md
## Cohesion Dimensions
### 1. Stage Flow Coherence
**Question:** Do the stages flow logically from start to finish?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Stages follow a logical progression | Users and execution engines expect a natural flow |
| Earlier stages produce what later stages need | Broken handoffs cause failures |
| No dead-end stages that produce nothing downstream | Wasted effort if output goes nowhere |
| Entry points are clear and well-defined | Execution knows where to start |
**Examples of incoherence:**
- Analysis stage comes after the implementation stage
- Stage produces output format that next stage can't consume
- Multiple stages claim to be the starting point
- Final stage doesn't produce the skill's declared output
### 2. Purpose Alignment
**Question:** Does WHAT the skill does match WHY it exists — and do the execution instructions actually honor the design principles?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Skill's stated purpose matches its actual stages | Misalignment causes user disappointment |
| Role guidance is reflected in stage behavior | Don't claim "expert analysis" if stages are superficial |
| Description matches what stages actually deliver | Users rely on descriptions to choose skills |
| output-location entries align with actual stage outputs | Declared outputs must actually be produced |
| **Design rationale honored by execution instructions** | An agent following the instructions must not violate the stated design principles |
**The promises-vs-behavior check:** If the Overview or design rationale states a principle (e.g., "we do X before Y", "we never do Z without W"), trace through the actual execution instructions in each stage and verify they enforce — or at minimum don't contradict — that principle. Implicit instructions ("acknowledge what you received") that would cause an agent to violate a stated principle are the most dangerous misalignment because they look correct on casual review.
**Examples of misalignment:**
- Skill claims "comprehensive code review" but only has a linting stage
- Role guidance says "collaborative" but no stages involve user interaction
- Description says "end-to-end deployment" but stops at build
- Overview says "understand intent before scanning artifacts" but Stage 1 instructions would cause an agent to read all provided documents immediately
### 3. Complexity Appropriateness
**Question:** Is this the right type and complexity level for what it does?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Simple tasks use simple workflow type | Over-engineering wastes tokens and time |
| Complex tasks use guided/complex workflow type | Under-engineering misses important steps |
| Number of stages matches task complexity | 15 stages for a 2-step task is wrong |
| Branching complexity matches decision space | Don't branch when linear suffices |
**Complexity test:**
- Too complex: 10-stage workflow for "format a file"
- Too simple: 2-stage workflow for "architect a microservices system"
- Just right: Complexity matches the actual decision space and output requirements
### 4. Gap & Redundancy Detection in Stages
**Question:** Are there missing or duplicated stages?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| No missing stages in core workflow | Users shouldn't need to manually fill gaps |
| No overlapping stages doing the same work | Wastes tokens and execution time |
| Validation/review stages present where needed | Quality gates prevent bad outputs |
| Error handling or fallback stages exist | Graceful degradation matters |
**Gap detection heuristic:**
- If skill analyzes something, does it also report/act on findings?
- If skill creates something, does it also validate the creation?
- If skill has a multi-step process, are all steps covered?
- If skill produces output, is there a final assembly/formatting stage?
### 5. Dependency Graph Logic
**Question:** Are `after`, `before`, and `is-required` dependencies correct and complete?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| `after` captures true input dependencies | Missing deps cause execution failures |
| `before` captures downstream consumers | Incorrect ordering degrades quality |
| `is-required` distinguishes hard blocks from nice-to-have ordering | Unnecessary blocks prevent parallelism |
| No circular dependencies | Execution deadlock |
| No unnecessary dependencies creating bottlenecks | Slows parallel execution |
| output-location entries match what stages actually produce | Downstream consumers rely on these declarations |
**Dependency patterns to check:**
- Stage declares `after: [X]` but doesn't actually use X's output
- Stage uses output from Y but doesn't declare `after: [Y]`
- `is-required` set to true when the dependency is actually a nice-to-have
- Ordering declared too strictly when parallel execution is possible
- Linear chain where parallel execution is possible
### 6. External Skill Integration Coherence
**Question:** How does this skill work with external skills, and is that intentional?
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Referenced external skills fit the workflow | Random skill calls confuse the purpose |
| Skill can function standalone OR with external skills | Don't REQUIRE skills that aren't documented |
| External skill delegation follows a clear pattern | Haphazard calling suggests poor design |
| External skill outputs are consumed properly | Don't call a skill and ignore its output |
**Note:** If external skills aren't available, infer their purpose from name and usage context.
## Analysis Process
1. **Build mental model** of the skill:
- What is this skill FOR? (purpose, outcomes)
- What does it ACTUALLY do? (enumerate all stages)
- What does it PRODUCE? (output-location, final outputs)
2. **Evaluate flow coherence**:
- Do stages flow logically?
- Are handoffs between stages clean?
- Is the dependency graph sound?
3. **Gap analysis**:
- For each declared purpose, ask "can this skill actually achieve that?"
- For each key workflow, check if all steps are covered
- Consider adjacent stages that should exist
4. **Redundancy check**:
- Group similar stages
- Identify overlaps
- Note consolidation opportunities
5. **Creative synthesis**:
- What would make this skill MORE useful?
- What's the ONE thing missing that would have biggest impact?
- What's the ONE thing to remove that would clarify focus?
## Output Format
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/skill-cohesion-temp.json`
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
**Field mapping for this scanner:**
For findings (issues, gaps, redundancies, misalignments):
- `title` — Brief description (was `issue`)
- `detail` — Observation, rationale, and impact combined (merges `observation` + `rationale` + `impact`)
- `action` — Specific improvement idea (was `suggestion`)
For strengths (formerly in separate `strengths[]`):
- Use `severity: "strength"` and `category: "strength"`
- `title` — What works well
- `detail` — Why it works well
- `action` — (use empty string or "No action needed")
For creative suggestions (formerly in separate `creative_suggestions[]`):
- Use `severity: "suggestion"` and the appropriate category
- `title` — The creative idea (was `idea`)
- `detail` — Why this would strengthen the skill (was `rationale` + `estimated_impact`)
- `action` — How to implement it
All go into a single `findings[]` array.
```json
{
"scanner": "skill-cohesion",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"severity": "medium",
"category": "gap",
"title": "No validation stage after artifact creation",
"detail": "Stage 04 produces the final artifact but nothing verifies it meets the declared schema. Users would need to manually validate. This matters because invalid artifacts propagate errors downstream.",
"action": "Add a validation stage (05) that checks the artifact against the declared schema before presenting to the user."
},
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"severity": "strength",
"category": "strength",
"title": "Excellent progressive disclosure in stage routing",
"detail": "The routing table cleanly separates entry points and each branch loads only what it needs. This keeps context lean across all paths.",
"action": ""
},
{
"file": "bmad-manifest.json",
"severity": "suggestion",
"category": "opportunity",
"title": "Consolidate stages 02 and 03 into a single analysis stage",
"detail": "Both stages read overlapping file sets and produce similar output structures. Consolidation would reduce token cost and simplify the dependency graph. Estimated impact: high.",
"action": "Merge stage 02 (structural analysis) and 03 (content analysis) into a single stage with both checks."
}
],
"assessments": {
"cohesion_analysis": {
"stage_flow_coherence": {
"score": "strong|moderate|weak",
"notes": "Brief explanation of how well stages flow together"
},
"purpose_alignment": {
"score": "strong|moderate|weak",
"notes": "Brief explanation of why purpose fits or doesn't fit stages"
},
"complexity_appropriateness": {
"score": "appropriate|over-engineered|under-engineered",
"notes": "Is this the right level of complexity for the task?"
},
"stage_completeness": {
"score": "complete|mostly-complete|gaps-obvious",
"missing_areas": ["area1", "area2"],
"notes": "What's missing that should probably be there"
},
"redundancy_level": {
"score": "clean|some-overlap|significant-redundancy",
"consolidation_opportunities": [
{
"stages": ["stage-a", "stage-b"],
"suggested_consolidation": "How these could be combined"
}
]
},
"dependency_graph": {
"score": "sound|minor-issues|significant-issues",
"circular_deps": false,
"unnecessary_bottlenecks": [],
"missing_dependencies": [],
"notes": "Assessment of after/before/is-required correctness"
},
"output_location_alignment": {
"score": "aligned|partially-aligned|misaligned",
"undeclared_outputs": [],
"declared_but_not_produced": [],
"notes": "Do output-location entries match what stages actually produce?"
},
"external_integration": {
"external_skills_referenced": 0,
"integration_pattern": "intentional|incidental|unclear",
"notes": "How external skills fit into the overall design"
},
"user_journey_score": {
"score": "complete-end-to-end|mostly-complete|fragmented",
"broken_workflows": ["workflow that can't be completed"],
"notes": "Can the skill accomplish its stated purpose end-to-end?"
}
},
"skill_identity": {
"name": "{skill-name}",
"purpose_summary": "Brief characterization of what this skill does",
"primary_outcome": "What this skill produces",
"stage_count": 7
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0, "suggestion": 0, "strength": 0},
"overall_cohesion": "cohesive|mostly-cohesive|fragmented|confused",
"single_most_important_fix": "The ONE thing that would most improve this skill"
}
}
```
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Use |
|----------|-------------|
| **high** | Glaring omission that would obviously break the workflow OR stage that completely contradicts the skill's purpose |
| **medium** | Clear gap in core workflow OR significant redundancy OR moderate misalignment |
| **low** | Minor enhancement opportunity OR edge case not covered |
| **suggestion** | Creative idea, nice-to-have, speculative improvement |
## Process
1. **Parallel read batch:** Read SKILL.md, bmad-manifest.json, all prompt files, and list resources/ — in a single parallel batch
2. Build mental model of the skill as a whole from all files read
3. Evaluate cohesion across all dimensions (flow, purpose, complexity, completeness, redundancy, dependencies, creates alignment, external integration, journey)
4. Generate findings with specific, actionable suggestions
5. Identify strengths (positive feedback is valuable!)
6. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/skill-cohesion-temp.json`
7. Return only the filename: `skill-cohesion-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, think one level deeper and verify completeness and quality:**
### Scan Completeness
- Did I read SKILL.md, bmad-manifest.json, and ALL prompts?
- Did I build a complete mental model of the skill?
- Did I evaluate ALL cohesion dimensions (flow, purpose, complexity, completeness, redundancy, dependencies, output-location, external, journey)?
- Did I check output-location alignment with actual stage outputs?
### Finding Quality
- Are "gap" findings truly missing or intentionally out of scope?
- Are "redundancy" findings actual overlap or complementary stages?
- Are "misalignment" findings real contradictions or just different aspects?
- Are severity ratings appropriate (high only for glaring omissions)?
- Did I include strengths (positive feedback is valuable)?
- Are dependency graph findings based on actual data flow, not assumptions?
### Cohesion Review
- Does single_most_important_fix represent the highest-impact improvement?
- Do findings tell a coherent story about this skill's cohesion?
- Would addressing high-severity issues significantly improve the skill?
- Are creative_suggestions actually valuable, not just nice-to-haves?
- Is the complexity assessment fair and well-reasoned?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.
## Key Principle
You are NOT checking for syntax errors or missing fields. You are evaluating whether this skill makes sense as a coherent workflow. Think like a process engineer reviewing a pipeline: Does this flow? Is it complete? Does it fit together? Is it the right level of complexity? Be opinionated but fair — call out what works well, not just what needs improvement.

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# Quality Scan: Workflow Integrity
You are **WorkflowIntegrityBot**, a quality engineer who validates that a skill is correctly built — everything that should exist does exist, everything is properly wired together, and the structure matches its declared type.
## Overview
You validate structural completeness and correctness across the entire skill: SKILL.md, stage prompts, manifest, and their interconnections. **Why this matters:** Structure is what the AI reads first — frontmatter determines whether the skill triggers, sections establish the mental model, stage files are the executable units, and broken references cause runtime failures. A structurally sound skill is one where the blueprint (SKILL.md) and the implementation (prompt files, references/, manifest) are aligned and complete.
This is a single unified scan that checks both the skill's skeleton (SKILL.md structure) and its organs (stage files, progression, config, manifest). Checking these together lets you catch mismatches that separate scans would miss — like a SKILL.md claiming complex workflow with routing but having no stage files, or stage files that exist but aren't referenced.
## Your Role
Read the skill's SKILL.md, all stage prompts, and manifest (if present). Verify structural completeness, naming conventions, logical consistency, and type-appropriate requirements. Return findings as structured JSON.
## Scan Targets
Find and read:
- `SKILL.md` — Primary structure and blueprint
- `*.md` prompt files at root — Stage prompt files (if complex workflow)
- `bmad-manifest.json` — Module manifest (if present)
---
## Part 1: SKILL.md Structure
### Frontmatter (The Trigger)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| `name` MUST match the folder name AND follows pattern `bmad-{code}-{skillname}` or `bmad-{skillname}` | Naming convention identifies module affiliation |
| `description` follows two-part format: [5-8 word summary]. [trigger clause] | Description is PRIMARY trigger mechanism — wrong format causes over-triggering or under-triggering |
| Trigger clause uses quoted specific phrases: `Use when user says 'create a PRD' or 'edit a PRD'` | Quoted phrases prevent accidental triggering on casual keyword mentions |
| Trigger clause is conservative (explicit invocation) unless organic activation is clearly intentional | Most skills should NOT fire on passing mentions — only on direct requests |
| No vague trigger language like "Use on any mention of..." or "Helps with..." | Over-broad descriptions hijack unrelated conversations |
| No extra frontmatter fields beyond name/description | Extra fields clutter metadata, may not parse correctly |
### Required Sections
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Has `## Overview` section | Primes AI's understanding before detailed instructions — see prompt-craft scanner for depth assessment |
| Has role guidance (who/what executes this workflow) | Clarifies the executor's perspective without creating a full persona |
| Has `## On Activation` with clear activation steps | Prevents confusion about what to do when invoked |
| Sections in logical order | Scrambled sections make AI work harder to understand flow |
### Optional Sections (Valid When Purposeful)
Workflows may include Identity, Communication Style, or Principles sections if personality or tone serves the workflow's purpose. These are more common in agents but not restricted to them.
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| `## Identity` section (if present) serves a purpose | Valid when personality/tone affects workflow outcomes |
| `## Communication Style` (if present) serves a purpose | Valid when consistent tone matters for the workflow |
| `## Principles` (if present) serves a purpose | Valid when guiding values improve workflow outcomes |
| **NO `## On Exit` or `## Exiting` section** | There are NO exit hooks in the system — this section would never run |
### Language & Directness
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| No "you should" or "please" language | Direct commands work better than polite requests |
| No over-specification of obvious things | Wastes tokens, AI already knows basics |
| Instructions address the AI directly | "When activated, this workflow..." is meta — better: "When activated, load config..." |
| No ambiguous phrasing like "handle appropriately" | AI doesn't know what "appropriate" means without specifics |
### Template Artifacts (Incomplete Build Detection)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| No orphaned `{if-complex-workflow}` conditionals | Orphaned conditional means build process incomplete |
| No orphaned `{if-simple-workflow}` conditionals | Should have been resolved during skill creation |
| No orphaned `{if-simple-utility}` conditionals | Should have been resolved during skill creation |
| No bare placeholders like `{displayName}`, `{skillName}` | Should have been replaced with actual values |
| No other template fragments (`{if-module}`, `{if-headless}`, etc.) | Conditional blocks should be removed, not left as text |
| Variables from `bmad-init` are OK | `{user_name}`, `{communication_language}`, `{document_output_language}` are intentional runtime variables |
### Config Integration
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| bmad-init config loading present in On Activation | Config provides user preferences, language settings, project context |
| Config values used where appropriate | Hardcoded values that should come from config cause inflexibility |
---
## Part 2: Workflow Type Detection & Type-Specific Checks
Determine workflow type from SKILL.md before applying type-specific checks:
| Type | Indicators |
|------|-----------|
| Complex Workflow | Has routing logic, references stage files at root, stages table |
| Simple Workflow | Has inline numbered steps, no external stage files |
| Simple Utility | Input/output focused, transformation rules, minimal process |
### Complex Workflow
#### Stage Files
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Each stage referenced in SKILL.md exists at skill root | Missing stage file means workflow cannot proceed — **critical** |
| All stage files at root are referenced in SKILL.md | Orphaned stage files indicate incomplete refactoring |
| Stage files use numbered prefixes (`01-`, `02-`, etc.) | Numbering establishes execution order at a glance |
| Numbers are sequential with no gaps | Gaps suggest missing or deleted stages |
| Stage file names are descriptive after the number | `01-gather-requirements.md` is clear; `01-step.md` is not |
#### Progression Conditions
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Each stage prompt has explicit progression conditions | Without conditions, AI doesn't know when to advance — **critical** |
| Progression conditions are specific and testable | "When ready" is vague; "When all 5 fields are populated" is testable |
| Final stage has completion/output criteria | Workflow needs a defined end state |
| No circular stage references without exit conditions | Infinite loops break workflow execution |
#### Manifest (If Module-Based)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| `bmad-manifest.json` exists if SKILL.md references modules | Missing manifest means module loading fails |
| Manifest lists all stage prompts | Incomplete manifest means stages can't be discovered |
| Manifest stage names match actual filenames | Mismatches cause load failures |
#### Config Headers in Stage Prompts
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Each stage prompt has config header specifying Language | AI needs to know what language to communicate in |
| Stage prompts that create documents specify Output Language | Document language may differ from communication language |
| Config header uses bmad-init variables correctly | `{communication_language}`, `{document_output_language}` |
### Simple Workflow
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Steps are numbered sequentially | Clear execution order prevents confusion |
| Each step has a clear action | Vague steps produce unreliable behavior |
| Steps have defined outputs or state changes | AI needs to know what each step produces |
| Final step has clear completion criteria | Workflow needs a defined end state |
| No references to external stage files | Simple workflows should be self-contained inline |
### Simple Utility
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Input format is clearly defined | AI needs to know what it receives |
| Output format is clearly defined | AI needs to know what to produce |
| Transformation rules are explicit | Ambiguous transformations produce inconsistent results |
| Edge cases for input are addressed | Unexpected input causes failures |
| No unnecessary process steps | Utilities should be direct: input → transform → output |
### Headless Mode (If Declared)
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Headless mode setup is defined if SKILL.md declares headless capability | Headless execution needs explicit non-interactive path |
| All user interaction points have headless alternatives | Prompts for user input break headless execution |
| Default values specified for headless mode | Missing defaults cause headless execution to stall |
---
## Part 3: Logical Consistency (Cross-File Alignment)
These checks verify that the skill's parts agree with each other — catching mismatches that only surface when you look at SKILL.md and its implementation together.
| Check | Why It Matters |
|-------|----------------|
| Description matches what workflow actually does | Mismatch causes confusion when skill triggers inappropriately |
| Workflow type claim matches actual structure | Claiming "complex" but having inline steps signals incomplete build |
| Stage references in SKILL.md point to existing files | Dead references cause runtime failures |
| Activation sequence is logically ordered | Can't route to stages before loading config |
| Routing table entries (if present) match stage files | Routing to nonexistent stages breaks flow |
| SKILL.md type-appropriate sections match detected type | Missing routing logic for complex, or unnecessary stage refs for simple |
---
## Severity Guidelines
| Severity | When to Apply |
|----------|---------------|
| **Critical** | Missing stage files, missing progression conditions, circular dependencies without exit, broken references |
| **High** | Missing On Activation, vague/missing description, orphaned template artifacts, type mismatch |
| **Medium** | Naming convention violations, minor config issues, ambiguous language, orphaned stage files |
| **Low** | Style preferences, ordering suggestions, minor directness improvements |
---
## Output Format
You will receive `{skill-path}` and `{quality-report-dir}` as inputs.
Write JSON findings to: `{quality-report-dir}/workflow-integrity-temp.json`
Output your findings using the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`.
Use EXACTLY these field names: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`. Do not rename, restructure, or add fields to findings.
**Field mapping for this scanner:**
- `title` — Brief description of the issue (was `issue`)
- `detail` — Why this is a problem (was `rationale`)
- `action` — Specific action to resolve (was `fix`)
```json
{
"scanner": "workflow-integrity",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "critical",
"category": "progression",
"title": "Stage 03 has no progression conditions",
"detail": "Without explicit conditions, the AI does not know when to advance to the next stage, causing stalls or premature transitions.",
"action": "Add progression conditions: 'Advance when all required fields are populated and user confirms.'"
}
],
"assessments": {
"workflow_type": "complex|simple-workflow|simple-utility",
"stage_summary": {
"total_stages": 0,
"missing_stages": [],
"orphaned_stages": [],
"stages_without_progression": [],
"stages_without_config_header": []
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"assessment": "Brief 1-2 sentence overall assessment of workflow integrity"
}
}
```
Before writing output, verify: Is your array called `findings`? Does every item have `title`, `detail`, `action`? Is `assessments` an object, not items in the findings array?
## Process
1. **Parallel read batch:** Read SKILL.md, bmad-manifest.json (if present), and list all `.md` files at skill root — in a single parallel batch
2. Validate frontmatter, sections, language, template artifacts from SKILL.md
3. Determine workflow type (complex, simple workflow, simple utility)
4. For complex workflows: **parallel read batch** — read all stage prompt files identified in step 1
5. For complex workflows: cross-reference stage files with SKILL.md references, check progression conditions, config headers, naming
6. For simple workflows: verify inline steps are numbered, clear, and complete
7. For simple utilities: verify input/output format and transformation rules
8. Check headless mode if declared
9. Run logical consistency checks across all files read
10. Write JSON to `{quality-report-dir}/workflow-integrity-temp.json`
11. Return only the filename: `workflow-integrity-temp.json`
## Critical After Draft Output
**Before finalizing, think one level deeper and verify completeness and quality:**
### Scan Completeness
- Did I read the entire SKILL.md file?
- Did I correctly identify the workflow type?
- Did I read ALL stage files at skill root (for complex workflows)?
- Did I verify every stage reference in SKILL.md has a corresponding file?
- Did I check progression conditions in every stage prompt?
- Did I check config headers in stage prompts?
- Did I verify frontmatter, sections, config, language, artifacts, and consistency?
### Finding Quality
- Are missing stages actually missing (not in a different directory)?
- Are template artifacts actual orphans (not intentional runtime variables)?
- Are severity ratings warranted (critical for things that actually break)?
- Are naming issues real convention violations or acceptable variations?
- Are progression condition issues genuine (vague conditions vs. intentionally flexible)?
- Are "invalid-section" findings truly invalid (e.g., On Exit which has no system hook)?
### Cross-File Consistency
- Do SKILL.md references and actual files agree?
- Does the declared workflow type match the actual structure?
- Does the stage_summary accurately reflect the workflow's state?
- Would fixing critical issues resolve the structural problems?
Only after this verification, write final JSON and return filename.

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# Workflow Classification Reference
Classify the skill type based on user requirements. This table is for internal use — DO NOT show to user.
## 3-Type Taxonomy
| Type | Description | Structure | When to Use |
|------|-------------|-----------|-------------|
| **Simple Utility** | Input/output building block. Headless, composable, often has scripts. May opt out of bmad-init for true standalone use. | Single SKILL.md + scripts/ | Composable building block with clear input/output, single-purpose |
| **Simple Workflow** | Multi-step process contained in a single SKILL.md. Uses bmad-init. Minimal or no prompt files. | SKILL.md + optional references/ | Multi-step process that fits in one file, no progressive disclosure needed |
| **Complex Workflow** | Multi-stage with progressive disclosure, numbered prompt files at root, config integration. May support headless mode. | SKILL.md (routing) + prompt stages at root + references/ | Multiple stages, long-running process, progressive disclosure, routing logic |
## Decision Tree
```
1. Is it a composable building block with clear input/output?
└─ YES → Simple Utility
└─ NO ↓
2. Can it fit in a single SKILL.md without progressive disclosure?
└─ YES → Simple Workflow
└─ NO ↓
3. Does it need multiple stages, long-running process, or progressive disclosure?
└─ YES → Complex Workflow
```
## Classification Signals
### Simple Utility Signals
- Clear input → processing → output pattern
- No user interaction needed during execution
- Other skills/workflows call it
- Deterministic or near-deterministic behavior
- Could be a script but needs LLM judgment
- Examples: JSON validator, manifest checker, format converter
### Simple Workflow Signals
- 3-8 numbered steps
- User interaction at specific points
- Uses standard tools (gh, git, npm, etc.)
- Produces a single output artifact
- No need to track state across compactions
- Examples: PR creator, deployment checklist, code review
### Complex Workflow Signals
- Multiple distinct phases/stages
- Long-running (likely to hit context compaction)
- Progressive disclosure needed (too much for one file)
- Routing logic in SKILL.md dispatches to stage prompts
- Produces multiple artifacts across stages
- May support headless/autonomous mode
- Examples: agent builder, module builder, project scaffolder
## Module Context (Orthogonal)
Module context is asked for ALL types:
- **Module-based:** Part of a BMad module. Uses `bmad-{modulecode}-{skillname}` naming. Has bmad-manifest.json.
- **Standalone:** Independent skill. Uses `bmad-{skillname}` naming.
All workflows use `bmad-init` by default unless explicitly opted out (truly standalone utilities).

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# BMad Module Workflows
Advanced patterns for BMad module workflows — long-running, multi-stage processes with progressive disclosure, config integration, and compaction survival.
---
## Workflow Persona: Facilitator Model
BMad workflows treat the human operator as the expert. The agent's role is **facilitator**, not replacement.
**Principles:**
- Ask clarifying questions when requirements are ambiguous
- Present options with trade-offs, don't assume preferences
- Validate decisions before executing irreversible actions
- The operator knows their domain; the workflow knows the process
**Example voice:**
```markdown
## Discovery
I found 3 API endpoints that could handle this. Which approach fits your use case?
**Option A**: POST /bulk-import — Faster, but no validation until complete
**Option B**: POST /validate + POST /import — Slower, but catches errors early
**Option C**: Streaming import — Best of both, requires backend support
Which would you prefer?
```
---
## Config Reading and Integration
Workflows MUST read config values using the `bmad-init` skill.
### Config Loading Pattern
**Invoke the skill with parameters:**
```
Use bmad-init skill:
- module: {bmad-module-code}
- vars: user_name:BMad,communication_language:English,document_output_language:English,output_folder:{project-root}/_bmad-output,{output-location-variable}:{default-output-path}
```
The skill returns JSON with config values. Store in memory as `{var_name}` for use in prompts.
### Required Core Variables
**Every module workflow MUST load these core variables:**
- `user_name:BMad`
- `communication_language:English`
- `output_folder:{project-root}/_bmad-output`
**Conditionally include:**
- `document_output_language:English` — ONLY if workflow creates documents (check capability `output-location` field)
- Output location variable from capability `output-location` — ONLY if specified in metadata
**Example for BMB workflow (creates documents, has output var):**
```
vars: user_name:BMad,communication_language:English,document_output_language:English,output_folder:{project-root}/_bmad-output,bmad_builder_output_folder:{project-root}/bmad-builder-creations/
```
**Example for analysis workflow (no documents, has output var):**
```
vars: user_name:BMad,communication_language:English,output_folder:{project-root}/_bmad-output,analysis_output_folder:{project-root}/_bmad-output/analysis/
```
**Example for processing workflow (no documents, no output var):**
```
vars: user_name:BMad,communication_language:English,output_folder:{project-root}/_bmad-output
```
### Using Config Values in Prompts
**Every prompt file MUST start with:**
```markdown
Language: {communication_language}
Output Language: {document_output_language} ← ONLY if workflow creates documents
Output Location: {output-variable} ← ONLY if capability output-location is defined
```
**Use throughout prompts:**
```markdown
"Creating documentation in {document_output_language}..." ← ONLY if creates documents
"Writing output to {bmad_builder_output_folder}/report.md" ← ONLY if has output var
"Connecting to API at {my_module_api_url}..."
```
---
## {project_root} Pattern for Portable Paths
Artifacts MUST use `{project_root}` for paths so the skill works regardless of install location (user directory or project).
### Path Pattern
```
{project_root}/docs/foo.md → Correct (portable)
./docs/foo.md → Wrong (breaks if skill in user dir)
~/my-project/docs/foo.md → Wrong (not portable)
/bizarre/absolute/path/foo.md → Wrong (not portable)
```
### Writing Artifacts
```markdown
1. Create the artifact at {project_root}/docs/architecture.md
2. Update {project_root}/CHANGELOG.md with entry
3. Copy template to {project_root}/.bmad-cache/template.md
```
### {project_root} Resolution
`{project_root}` is automatically resolved to the directory where the workflow was launched. This ensures:
- Skills work whether installed globally or per-project
- Multiple projects can use the same skill without conflict
- Artifact paths are always relative to the active project
---
## Long-Running Workflows: Compaction Survival
Workflows that run long (many steps, large context) may trigger context compaction. Critical state MUST be preserved in output files.
### The Document-Itself Pattern
**The output document is the cache.** Write directly to the file you're creating, updating it progressively as the workflow advances.
The document stores both content and context:
- **YAML front matter** — paths to input files used (for recovery after compaction)
- **Draft sections** — progressive content as it's built
- **Status marker** — which stage is complete (for resumption)
This avoids:
- File collisions when working on multiple PRDs/research projects simultaneously
- Extra `_bmad-cache` folder overhead
- State synchronization complexity
### Draft Document Structure
```markdown
---
title: "Analysis: Research Topic"
status: "analysis" # discovery | planning | analysis | synthesis | polish
inputs:
- "{project_root}/docs/brief.md"
- "{project_root}/data/sources.json"
created: "2025-03-02T10:00:00Z"
updated: "2025-03-02T11:30:00Z"
---
# Analysis: Research Topic
## Discovery
[content from stage 1...]
## Analysis
[content from stage 2...]
---
*Last updated: Stage 2 complete*
```
### Input Tracking Pattern
**Stage 1: Initialize document with inputs**
```markdown
## Stage 1: Discovery
1. Gather sources and identify input files
2. Create output document with YAML front matter:
```yaml
---
title: "{document_title}"
status: "discovery"
inputs:
- "{relative_path_to_input_1}"
- "{relative_path_to_input_2}"
created: "{timestamp}"
updated: "{timestamp}"
---
```
3. Write discovery content to document
4. Present summary to user
```
**Stage 2+: Reload context if compacted**
```markdown
## Stage Start: Analysis
1. Read {output_doc_path}
2. Parse YAML front matter for `inputs` list
3. Re-read each input file to restore context
4. Verify status indicates previous stage complete
5. Proceed with analysis, updating document in place
```
```markdown
## Stage 1: Research
1. Gather sources
2. **Write findings to {project_root}/docs/research-topic.md**
3. Present summary to user
## Stage 2: Analysis
1. **Read {project_root}/docs/research-topic.md** (survives compaction)
2. Analyze patterns
3. **Append/insert analysis into the same file**
## Stage 3: Synthesis
1. Read the growing document
2. Synthesize into final structure
3. **Update the same file in place**
## Stage 4: Final Polish
1. Spawn a subagent to polish the completed document:
- Cohesion check
- Redundancy removal
- Contradiction detection and fixes
- Add TOC if long document
2. Write final version to {project_root}/docs/research-topic.md
```
### When to Use This Pattern
**Guided flows with long documents:** Always write updates to the document itself at each stage.
**Yolo flows with multiple turns:** If the workflow takes multiple conversational turns, write to the output file progressively.
**Single-pass yolo:** Can wait to write final output if the entire response fits in one turn.
### Progressive Document Structure
Each stage appends to or restructures the document:
```markdown
## Initial Stage
# Document Title
## Section 1: Initial Research
[content...]
---
## Second Stage (reads file, appends)
# Document Title
## Section 1: Initial Research
[existing content...]
## Section 2: Analysis
[new content...]
---
## Third Stage (reads file, restructures)
# Document Title
## Executive Summary
[ synthesized from sections ]
## Background
[ section 1 content ]
## Analysis
[ section 2 content ]
```
### Final Polish Subagent
At workflow completion, spawn a subagent for final quality pass:
```markdown
## Final Polish
Launch a general-purpose agent with:
```
Task: Polish {output_file_path}
Actions:
1. Check cohesion - do sections flow logically?
2. Find and remove redundancy
3. Detect contradictions and fix them
4. If document is >5 sections, add a TOC at the top
5. Ensure consistent formatting and tone
Write the polished version back to the same file.
```
### Compaction Recovery Pattern
If context is compacted mid-workflow:
```markdown
## Recovery Check
1. Read {output_doc_path}
2. Parse YAML front matter:
- Check `status` for current stage
- Read `inputs` list to restore context
3. Re-read all input files from `inputs`
4. Resume from next stage based on status
```
### When NOT to Use This Pattern
- **Short, single-turn outputs:** Just write once at the end
- **Purely conversational workflows:** No persistent document needed
- **Multiple independent artifacts:** Each gets its own file; write each directly
---
## Sequential Progressive Disclosure
Place numbered prompt files at the skill root when:
- Multi-phase workflow with ordered questions
- Input of one phase affects the next
- User requires specific sequence
- Workflow is long-running and stages shouldn't be visible upfront
### Prompt File Structure
```
my-workflow/
├── SKILL.md
├── 01-discovery.md # Stage 1: Gather requirements, start output doc
├── 02-planning.md # Stage 2: Create plan (uses discovery output)
├── 03-execution.md # Stage 3: Execute (uses plan, updates output)
├── 04-review.md # Stage 4: Review and polish final output
└── references/
└── stage-templates.md
```
### Progression Conditions
Each prompt file specifies when to proceed:
```markdown
# 02-planning.md
## Prerequisites
- Discovery complete (output doc exists and has discovery section)
- User approved scope (user confirmed: proceed)
## On Activation
1. Read the output doc to get discovery context
2. Generate plan based on discovered requirements
3. **Append/insert plan section into the output doc**
4. Present plan summary to user
## Progression Condition
Proceed to execution stage when user confirms: "Proceed with plan" OR user provides modifications
## On User Approval
Route to 03-execution.md
```
### SKILL.md Routes to Prompt Files
Main SKILL.md is minimal — just routing logic:
```markdown
## Workflow Entry
1. Load config from {project-root}/_bmad/bmb/config.yaml
2. Check if workflow in progress:
- If output doc exists (user specifies path or we prompt):
- Read doc to determine current stage
- Resume from last completed section
- Else: Start at 01-discovery.md
3. Route to appropriate prompt file based on stage
```
### When NOT to Use Separate Prompt Files
Keep inline in SKILL.md when:
- Simple skill (session-long context fits)
- Well-known domain tool usage
- Single-purpose utility
- All stages are independent or can be visible upfront
---
## Module Metadata Reference
BMad module workflows require extended frontmatter metadata. See `references/metadata-reference.md` for the metadata template, field explanations, and comparisons between standalone skills and module workflows.
---
## Workflow Architecture Checklist
Before finalizing a BMad module workflow, verify:
- [ ] **Facilitator persona**: Does the workflow treat the operator as expert?
- [ ] **Config integration**: Are language, output locations, and module props read and used?
- [ ] **Portable paths**: All artifact paths use `{project_root}`?
- [ ] **Continuous output**: Does each stage write to the output document directly (survives compaction)?
- [ ] **Document-as-cache**: Output doc has YAML front matter with `status` and `inputs` for recovery?
- [ ] **Input tracking**: Does front matter list relative paths to all input files used?
- [ ] **Final polish**: Does workflow include a subagent polish step at the end?
- [ ] **Progressive disclosure**: Are stages in prompt files at root with clear progression conditions?
- [ ] **Metadata complete**: All bmad-* fields present and accurate?
- [ ] **Recovery pattern**: Can the workflow resume by reading the output doc front matter?
---
## Example: Complete BMad Workflow Skeleton
```
my-module-workflow/
├── SKILL.md # Routing + entry logic
├── 01-discovery.md # Gather requirements
├── 02-planning.md # Create plan
├── 03-execution.md # Execute
├── 04-review.md # Review results
├── references/
│ └── templates.md # Stage templates
└── scripts/
└── validator.sh # Output validation
```
**SKILL.md** (minimal routing):
```yaml
---
name: bmad-mymodule-workflow
description: Complex multi-stage workflow for my module. Use when user requests to 'run my module workflow' or 'create analysis report'.
---
## Workflow Entry
1. Use bmad-init skill (module: mm) — loads user_name, communication_language, document_output_language, output_folder, my_output_folder
2. Ask user for output document path (or suggest {my_output_folder}/analysis-{timestamp}.md)
3. Check if doc exists:
- If yes: read to determine current stage, resume
- If no: start at 01-discovery.md
4. Route to appropriate prompt file based on stage
```
**01-discovery.md**:
```markdown
Language: {communication_language}
Output Language: {document_output_language}
Output Location: {my_output_folder}
## Discovery
1. What are we building?
2. What are the constraints?
3. What input files should we reference?
**Create**: {output_doc_path} with:
```markdown
---
title: "Analysis: {topic}"
status: "discovery"
inputs:
- "{relative_path_to_input_1}"
- "{relative_path_to_input_2}"
created: "{timestamp}"
updated: "{timestamp}"
---
# Analysis: {topic}
## Discovery
[findings...]
---
*Status: Stage 1 complete*
```
## Progression
When complete → 02-planning.md
```
**02-planning.md**:
```markdown
Language: {communication_language}
Output Language: {document_output_language}
## Planning Start
1. Read {output_doc_path}
2. Parse YAML front matter — reload all `inputs` to restore context
3. Verify status is "discovery"
## Planning
1. Generate plan based on discovery
2. Update {output_doc_path}:
- Update status to "planning"
- Append planning section
## Progression
When complete → 03-execution.md
```
**04-review.md**:
```markdown
Language: {communication_language}
Output Language: {document_output_language}
## Final Polish
1. Read the complete output doc
2. Launch a general-purpose agent:
```
Task: Polish {output_doc_path}
Actions:
1. Check cohesion - do sections flow logically?
2. Find and remove redundancy
3. Detect contradictions and fix them
4. If document is >5 sections, add a TOC at the top
5. Ensure consistent formatting and tone
6. Update YAML status to "complete" and remove draft markers
Write the polished version back to the same file.
```
## Progression
When complete → present final result to user
```

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# Manifest Reference
Every BMad skill has a `bmad-manifest.json` at its root. This is the unified format for agents, workflows, and simple skills.
## File Location
```
{skillname}/
├── SKILL.md # name, description, workflow content
├── bmad-manifest.json # Capabilities, module integration
└── ...
```
## SKILL.md Frontmatter (Minimal)
```yaml
---
name: bmad-{modulecode}-{skillname}
description: [5-8 word summary]. [Use when user says 'X' or 'Y'.]
---
```
## bmad-manifest.json
**NOTE:** Do NOT include `$schema` in generated manifests. The schema is used by validation tooling only — it is not part of the delivered skill.
```json
{
"module-code": "bmb",
"replaces-skill": "bmad-original-skill",
"has-memory": true,
"capabilities": [
{
"name": "build",
"menu-code": "BP",
"description": "Builds skills through conversational discovery. Outputs to skill folder.",
"supports-headless": true,
"prompt": "build-process.md",
"phase-name": "design",
"after": ["create-requirements"],
"before": ["quality-optimize"],
"is-required": true,
"output-location": "{bmad_builder_output_folder}"
},
{
"name": "validate",
"menu-code": "VL",
"description": "Runs validation checks and produces quality report.",
"supports-headless": true
}
]
}
```
## Field Reference
### Top-Level Fields
| Field | Type | Required | Purpose |
|-------|------|----------|---------|
| `module-code` | string | If module | Short code for namespacing (e.g., `bmb`, `cis`) |
| `replaces-skill` | string | No | Registered skill name this replaces. Inherits metadata during bmad-init. |
| `persona` | string | Agents only | Succinct distillation of the agent's essence. **Presence = this is an agent.** |
| `has-memory` | boolean | No | Whether state persists across sessions via sidecar memory |
### Capability Fields
| Field | Type | Required | Purpose |
|-------|------|----------|---------|
| `name` | string | Yes | Kebab-case identifier |
| `menu-code` | string | Yes | 2-3 uppercase letter shortcut for menus |
| `description` | string | Yes | What it does and when to suggest it |
| `supports-autonomous` | boolean | No | Can run without user interaction |
| `prompt` | string | No | Relative path to prompt file (internal capability) |
| `skill-name` | string | No | Registered name of external skill (external capability) |
| `phase-name` | string | No | Module phase this belongs to |
| `after` | array | No | Skill names that should run before this capability |
| `before` | array | No | Skill names this capability should run before |
| `is-required` | boolean | No | If true, skills in `before` are blocked until this completes |
| `output-location` | string | No | Where output goes (may use config variables) |
### Three Capability Flavors
1. **Has `prompt`** — internal capability routed to a prompt file
2. **Has `skill-name`** — delegates to another registered skill
3. **Has neither** — SKILL.md handles it directly
### The `replaces-skill` Field
When set, the skill inherits metadata from the replaced skill during `bmad-init`. Explicit fields in the new manifest override inherited values.
## Agent vs Workflow vs Skill
No type field needed — inferred from content:
- **Has `persona`** → agent
- **No `persona`** → workflow or skill (distinction is complexity, not manifest structure)
## Config Loading
All module skills MUST use the `bmad-init` skill at startup.
See `references/complex-workflow-patterns.md` for the config loading pattern.
## Path Construction Rules — CRITICAL
Only use `{project-root}` for `_bmad` paths.
**Three path types:**
- **Skill-internal** — bare relative paths (no prefix)
- **Project `_bmad` paths** — always `{project-root}/_bmad/...`
- **Config variables** — used directly, already contain `{project-root}` in their resolved values
**Correct:**
```
references/reference.md # Skill-internal (bare relative)
stage-one.md # Skill-internal (prompt at root)
{project-root}/_bmad/planning/prd.md # Project _bmad path
{planning_artifacts}/prd.md # Config var (already has full path)
```
**Never use:**
```
../../other-skill/file.md # Cross-skill relative path breaks with reorganization
{project-root}/{config_var}/output.md # Double-prefix
./references/reference.md # Relative prefix breaks context changes
```

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# Quality Dimensions — Quick Reference
Six dimensions to keep in mind when building skills. The quality scanners check these automatically during optimization — this is a mental checklist for the build phase.
## 1. Informed Autonomy
The executing agent needs enough context to make judgment calls when situations don't match the script. The Overview section establishes this: domain framing, theory of mind, design rationale.
- Simple utilities need minimal context — input/output is self-explanatory
- Interactive/complex workflows need domain understanding, user perspective, and rationale for non-obvious choices
- When in doubt, explain *why* — an agent that understands the mission improvises better than one following blind steps
## 2. Intelligence Placement
Scripts handle plumbing (fetch, transform, validate). Prompts handle judgment (interpret, classify, decide).
**Test:** If a script contains an `if` that decides what content *means*, intelligence has leaked.
**Reverse test:** If a prompt validates structure, counts items, parses known formats, compares against schemas, or checks file existence — determinism has leaked into the LLM. That work belongs in a script. Scripts have access to full bash, Python with standard library plus PEP 723 dependencies, and system tools — think broadly about what can be offloaded.
## 3. Progressive Disclosure
SKILL.md stays focused. Detail goes where it belongs.
- Stage instructions → prompt files at skill root
- Reference data, schemas, large tables → `references/`
- Templates, config files → `assets/`
- Multi-branch SKILL.md under ~250 lines: fine as-is
- Single-purpose up to ~500 lines: acceptable if focused
## 4. Description Format
Two parts: `[5-8 word summary]. [Use when user says 'X' or 'Y'.]`
Default to conservative triggering. See `references/standard-fields.md` for full format and examples.
## 5. Path Construction
Only use `{project-root}` for `_bmad` paths. Config variables used directly — they already contain `{project-root}`.
See `references/standard-fields.md` for correct/incorrect patterns.
## 6. Token Efficiency
Remove genuine waste (repetition, defensive padding, meta-explanation). Preserve context that enables judgment (domain framing, theory of mind, design rationale). These are different things — the prompt-craft scanner distinguishes between them.

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# Script Opportunities Reference — Workflow Builder
## Core Principle
Scripts handle deterministic operations (validate, transform, count). Prompts handle judgment (interpret, classify, decide). If a check has clear pass/fail criteria, it belongs in a script.
---
## Section 1: How to Spot Script Opportunities
### The Determinism Test
Ask two questions about any operation:
1. **Given identical input, will it always produce identical output?** If yes, it's a script candidate.
2. **Could you write a unit test with expected output?** If yes, it's definitely a script.
**Script territory:** The operation has no ambiguity — same input, same result, every time.
**Prompt territory:** The operation requires interpreting meaning, tone, or context — reasonable people could disagree on the output.
### The Judgment Boundary
| Scripts Handle | Prompts Handle |
|----------------|----------------|
| Fetch | Interpret |
| Transform | Classify (with ambiguity) |
| Validate | Create |
| Count | Decide (with incomplete info) |
| Parse | Evaluate quality |
| Compare | Synthesize meaning |
| Extract | Assess tone/style |
| Format | Generate recommendations |
| Check structure | Weigh tradeoffs |
### Pattern Recognition Checklist
When you see these verbs or patterns in a workflow's requirements, think scripts first:
| Signal Verb / Pattern | Script Type | Example |
|----------------------|-------------|---------|
| validate | Validation script | "Validate frontmatter fields exist" |
| count | Metric script | "Count tokens per file" |
| extract | Data extraction | "Extract all config variable references" |
| convert / transform | Transformation script | "Convert stage definitions to graph" |
| compare | Comparison script | "Compare prompt frontmatter vs manifest" |
| scan for | Pattern scanning | "Scan for orphaned template artifacts" |
| check structure | File structure checker | "Check skill directory has required files" |
| against schema | Schema validation | "Validate output against JSON schema" |
| graph / map dependencies | Dependency analysis | "Map skill-to-skill dependencies" |
| list all | Enumeration script | "List all resource files loaded by prompts" |
| detect pattern | Pattern detector | "Detect subagent delegation patterns" |
| diff / changes between | Diff analysis | "Show what changed between versions" |
### The Outside-the-Box Test
Scripts are not limited to validation. Push your thinking:
- **Data gathering as script:** Could a script collect structured data (file sizes, dependency lists, config values) and return JSON for the LLM to interpret? The LLM gets pre-digested facts instead of reading raw files.
- **Pre-processing:** Could a script reduce what the LLM needs to read? Extract only the relevant sections, strip boilerplate, summarize structure.
- **Post-processing validation:** Could a script validate LLM output after generation? Check that generated YAML parses, that referenced files exist, that naming conventions are followed.
- **Metric collection:** Could scripts count, measure, and tabulate so the LLM makes decisions based on numbers it didn't have to compute? Token counts, file counts, complexity scores — feed these to LLM judgment without making the LLM count.
- **Workflow stage analysis:** Could a script parse stage definitions and progression conditions, giving the LLM a structural map without it needing to parse markdown?
### Your Toolbox
Scripts have access to the full capabilities of the execution environment. Think broadly — if you can express the logic as deterministic code, it's a script candidate.
**Bash:** Full shell power — `jq`, `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, `find`, `diff`, `wc`, `sort`, `uniq`, `curl`, plus piping and composition. Great for file discovery, text processing, and orchestrating other scripts.
**Python:** The entire standard library — `json`, `yaml`, `pathlib`, `re`, `argparse`, `collections`, `difflib`, `ast`, `csv`, `xml.etree`, `textwrap`, `dataclasses`, and more. Plus PEP 723 inline-declared dependencies for anything else: `tiktoken` for accurate token counting, `jsonschema` for schema validation, `pyyaml` for YAML parsing, etc.
**System tools:** `git` commands for history, diff, blame, and log analysis. Filesystem operations for directory scanning and structure validation. Process execution for orchestrating multi-script pipelines.
### The --help Pattern
All scripts use PEP 723 metadata and implement `--help`. This creates a powerful integration pattern for prompts:
Instead of inlining a script's interface details into a prompt, the prompt can simply say:
> Run `scripts/foo.py --help` to understand its inputs and outputs, then invoke appropriately.
This saves tokens in the prompt and keeps a single source of truth for the script's API. When a script's interface changes, the prompt doesn't need updating — `--help` always reflects the current contract.
---
## Section 2: Script Opportunity Catalog
Each entry follows the format: What it does, Why it matters for workflows, What it checks, What it outputs, and Implementation notes.
---
### 1. Frontmatter Validator
**What:** Validate SKILL.md frontmatter structure and content.
**Why:** Frontmatter drives skill triggering and routing. Malformed frontmatter means the skill never activates or activates incorrectly.
**Checks:**
- `name` exists and is kebab-case
- `description` exists and follows "Use when..." pattern
- `argument-hint` is present if the skill accepts arguments
- No forbidden fields or reserved prefixes
- Optional fields have valid values if present
**Output:** JSON with pass/fail per field, line numbers for errors.
**Implementation:** Python with argparse, no external deps needed. Parse YAML frontmatter between `---` delimiters.
---
### 2. Template Artifact Scanner
**What:** Scan all skill files for orphaned template substitution artifacts.
**Why:** The build process may leave behind `{if-autonomous}`, `{displayName}`, `{skill-name}`, or other placeholders that should have been replaced. These cause runtime confusion.
**Checks:**
- Scan all `.md` files for `{placeholder}` patterns
- Distinguish real config variables (loaded at runtime) from build-time artifacts
- Flag any that don't match known runtime variables
**Output:** JSON with file path, line number, artifact text, and whether it looks intentional.
**Implementation:** Bash script with `grep` and `jq` for JSON output, or Python with regex.
---
### 3. Prompt Frontmatter Comparator
**What:** Compare prompt file frontmatter against the skill's `bmad-skill-manifest.yaml`.
**Why:** Capability misalignment between prompts and the manifest causes routing failures — the skill advertises a capability it can't deliver, or has a prompt that's never reachable.
**Checks:**
- Every prompt file at root has frontmatter with `name`, `description`, `menu-code`
- Prompt `name` matches manifest capability name
- `menu-code` matches manifest entry (case-insensitive)
- Every manifest capability with `type: "prompt"` has a corresponding file
- Flag orphaned prompts not listed in manifest
**Output:** JSON with mismatches, missing files, orphaned prompts.
**Implementation:** Python, reads `bmad-skill-manifest.yaml` and all prompt `.md` files at skill root.
---
### 4. Token Counter
**What:** Count approximate token counts for each file in a skill.
**Why:** Identify verbose files that need optimization. Catch skills that exceed context window budgets. Understand where token budget is spent across prompts, resources, and the SKILL.md.
**Checks:**
- Total tokens per `.md` file (approximate: chars / 4, or accurate via tiktoken)
- Code block tokens vs prose tokens
- Cumulative token cost of full skill activation (SKILL.md + loaded resources + initial prompt)
**Output:** JSON with file path, token count, percentage of total, and a sorted ranking.
**Implementation:** Python. Use `tiktoken` (PEP 723 dependency) for accuracy, or fall back to character approximation.
---
### 5. Dependency Graph Generator
**What:** Map dependencies between the current skill and external skills it invokes.
**Why:** Understand the skill's dependency surface. Catch references to skills that don't exist or have been renamed.
**Checks:**
- Parse `bmad-skill-manifest.yaml` for external skill references
- Parse SKILL.md and prompts for skill invocation patterns (`invoke`, `load`, skill name references)
- Build a dependency list with direction (this skill depends on X, Y depends on this skill)
**Output:** JSON adjacency list or DOT format (GraphViz). Include whether each dependency is required or optional.
**Implementation:** Python, JSON/YAML parsing with regex for invocation pattern detection.
---
### 6. Stage Flow Analyzer
**What:** Parse multi-stage workflow definitions to extract stage ordering, progression conditions, and routing logic.
**Why:** Complex workflows define stages with specific progression conditions. Misaligned stage ordering, missing progression gates, or unreachable stages cause workflow failures that are hard to debug at runtime.
**Checks:**
- Extract all defined stages from SKILL.md and prompt files
- Verify each stage has a clear entry condition and exit/progression condition
- Detect unreachable stages (no path leads to them)
- Detect dead-end stages (no progression and not marked as terminal)
- Validate stage ordering matches the documented flow
- Check for circular stage references
**Output:** JSON with stage list, progression map, and structural warnings.
**Implementation:** Python with regex for stage/condition extraction from markdown.
---
### 7. Config Variable Tracker
**What:** Find all `{var}` references across skill files and verify they are loaded or defined.
**Why:** Unresolved config variables cause runtime errors or produce literal `{var_name}` text in outputs. This is especially common after refactoring or renaming variables.
**Checks:**
- Scan all `.md` files for `{variable_name}` patterns
- Cross-reference against variables loaded by `bmad-init` or defined in config
- Distinguish template variables from literal text in code blocks
- Flag undefined variables and unused loaded variables
**Output:** JSON with variable name, locations where used, and whether it's defined/loaded.
**Implementation:** Python with regex scanning and config file parsing.
---
### 8. Resource Loading Analyzer
**What:** Map which resources are loaded at which point during skill execution.
**Why:** Resources loaded too early waste context. Resources never loaded are dead weight in the skill directory. Understanding the loading sequence helps optimize token budget.
**Checks:**
- Parse SKILL.md and prompts for `Load resource` / `Read` / file reference patterns
- Map each resource to the stage/prompt where it's first loaded
- Identify resources in `references/` that are never referenced
- Identify resources referenced but missing from `references/`
- Calculate cumulative token cost at each loading point
**Output:** JSON with resource file, loading trigger (which prompt/stage), and orphan/missing flags.
**Implementation:** Python with regex for load-pattern detection and directory scanning.
---
### 9. Subagent Pattern Detector
**What:** Detect whether a skill that processes multiple sources uses the BMad Advanced Context Pattern (subagent delegation).
**Why:** Skills processing 5+ sources without subagent delegation risk context overflow and degraded output quality. This pattern is required for high-source-count workflows.
**Checks:**
- Count distinct source/input references in the skill
- Look for subagent delegation patterns: "DO NOT read sources yourself", "delegate to sub-agents", `/tmp/analysis-` temp file patterns
- Check for sub-agent output templates (50-100 token summaries)
- Flag skills with 5+ sources that lack the pattern
**Output:** JSON with source count, pattern found/missing, and recommendations.
**Implementation:** Python with keyword search and context extraction.
---
### 10. Prompt Chain Validator
**What:** Trace the chain of prompt loads through a workflow and verify every path is valid.
**Why:** Workflows route between prompts based on user intent and stage progression. A broken link in the chain — a `Load foo.md` where `foo.md` doesn't exist — halts the workflow.
**Checks:**
- Extract all `Load *.md` prompt references from SKILL.md and every prompt file
- Verify each referenced prompt file exists
- Build a reachability map from SKILL.md entry points
- Flag prompts that exist but are unreachable from any entry point
**Output:** JSON with prompt chain map, broken links, and unreachable prompts.
**Implementation:** Python with regex extraction and file existence checks.
---
### 11. Skill Health Check (Composite)
**What:** Run all available validation scripts and aggregate results into a single report.
**Why:** One command to assess overall skill quality. Useful as a build gate or pre-commit check.
**Composition:** Runs scripts 1-10 in sequence, collects JSON outputs, aggregates findings by severity.
**Output:** Unified JSON health report with per-script results and overall status.
**Implementation:** Bash script orchestrating Python scripts, `jq` for JSON aggregation. Or a Python orchestrator using `subprocess`.
---
### 12. Skill Comparison Validator
**What:** Compare two versions of a skill (or two skills) for structural differences.
**Why:** Validate that changes during iteration didn't break structure. Useful for reviewing edits, comparing before/after optimization, or diffing a skill against a template.
**Checks:**
- Frontmatter changes
- Capability additions/removals in manifest
- New or removed prompt files
- Token count changes per file
- Stage flow changes (for workflows)
- Resource additions/removals
**Output:** JSON with categorized changes and severity assessment.
**Implementation:** Bash with `git diff` or file comparison, Python for structural analysis.
---
## Section 3: Script Output Standard and Implementation Checklist
### Script Output Standard
All scripts MUST output structured JSON for agent consumption:
```json
{
"script": "script-name",
"version": "1.0.0",
"skill_path": "/path/to/skill",
"timestamp": "2025-03-08T10:30:00Z",
"status": "pass|fail|warning",
"findings": [
{
"severity": "critical|high|medium|low|info",
"category": "structure|security|performance|consistency",
"location": {"file": "SKILL.md", "line": 42},
"issue": "Clear description",
"fix": "Specific action to resolve"
}
],
"summary": {
"total": 0,
"critical": 0,
"high": 0,
"medium": 0,
"low": 0
}
}
```
### Implementation Checklist
When creating new validation scripts:
- [ ] Uses `--help` for documentation (PEP 723 metadata)
- [ ] Accepts skill path as argument
- [ ] `-o` flag for output file (defaults to stdout)
- [ ] Writes diagnostics to stderr
- [ ] Returns meaningful exit codes: 0=pass, 1=fail, 2=error
- [ ] Includes `--verbose` flag for debugging
- [ ] Self-contained (PEP 723 for Python dependencies)
- [ ] No interactive prompts
- [ ] No network dependencies
- [ ] Outputs valid JSON to stdout
- [ ] Has tests in `scripts/tests/` subfolder

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# Skill Authoring Best Practices
Practical patterns for writing effective BMad skills. For field definitions and description format, see `references/standard-fields.md`. For quality dimensions, see `references/quality-dimensions.md`.
## Core Principle: Informed Autonomy
Give the executing agent enough context to make good judgment calls — not just enough to follow steps. The right test for every piece of content is: "Would the agent make *better decisions* with this context?" If yes, keep it. If it's genuinely redundant or mechanical, cut it.
## Freedom Levels
Match specificity to task fragility:
| Freedom | When to Use | Example |
|---------|-------------|---------|
| **High** (text instructions) | Multiple valid approaches, context-dependent | "Analyze structure, check for issues, suggest improvements" |
| **Medium** (pseudocode/templates) | Preferred pattern exists, some variation OK | `def generate_report(data, format="markdown"):` |
| **Low** (exact scripts) | Fragile operations, consistency critical | `python scripts/migrate.py --verify --backup` (do not modify) |
**Analogy**: Narrow bridge with cliffs = low freedom. Open field = high freedom.
## Common Patterns
### Template Pattern
**Strict** (must follow exactly):
````markdown
## Report structure
ALWAYS use this template:
```markdown
# [Title]
## Summary
[One paragraph]
## Findings
- Finding 1 with data
```
````
**Flexible** (adapt as needed):
````markdown
Here's a sensible default, use judgment:
```markdown
# [Title]
## Summary
[Overview]
```
Adapt based on context.
````
### Examples Pattern
Input/output pairs show expected style:
````markdown
## Commit message format
**Example 1:**
Input: "Added user authentication with JWT tokens"
Output: `feat(auth): implement JWT-based authentication`
````
### Conditional Workflow
```markdown
1. Determine modification type:
**Creating new?** → Creation workflow
**Editing existing?** → Editing workflow
```
### Soft Gate Elicitation
For guided/interactive workflows, use "anything else?" soft gates at natural transition points instead of hard menus. This pattern draws out information users didn't know they had:
```markdown
## After completing a discovery section:
Present what you've captured so far, then:
"Anything else you'd like to add, or shall we move on?"
```
**Why it works:** Users almost always remember one more thing when given a graceful exit ramp rather than a hard stop. The low-pressure phrasing invites contribution without demanding it. This consistently produces richer, more complete artifacts than rigid section-by-section questioning.
**When to use:** Any guided workflow with collaborative discovery — product briefs, requirements gathering, design reviews, brainstorming synthesis. Use at every natural transition between topics or sections.
**When NOT to use:** Autonomous/headless execution, or steps where additional input would cause scope creep rather than enrich the output.
### Intent-Before-Ingestion
Never scan artifacts, documents, or project context until you understand WHY the user is here. Scanning without purpose produces noise, not signal.
```markdown
## On activation:
1. Greet and understand intent — what is this about?
2. Accept whatever inputs the user offers
3. Ask if they have additional documents or context
4. ONLY THEN scan artifacts, scoped to relevance
```
**Why it works:** Without knowing what the user wants, you can't judge what's relevant in a 100-page research doc vs a brainstorming report. Intent gives you the filter. Without it, scanning is a fool's errand.
**When to use:** Any workflow that ingests documents, project context, or external data as part of its process.
### Capture-Don't-Interrupt
When users provide information beyond the current scope (e.g., dropping requirements during a product brief, mentioning platforms during vision discovery), capture it silently for later use rather than redirecting or stopping them.
```markdown
## During discovery:
If user provides out-of-scope but valuable info:
- Capture it (notes, structured aside, addendum bucket)
- Don't interrupt their flow
- Use it later in the appropriate stage or output
```
**Why it works:** Users in creative flow will share their best insights unprompted. Interrupting to say "we'll cover that later" kills momentum and may lose the insight entirely. Capture everything, distill later.
**When to use:** Any collaborative discovery workflow where the user is brainstorming, explaining, or brain-dumping.
### Dual-Output: Human Artifact + LLM Distillate
Any artifact-producing workflow can output two complementary documents: a polished human-facing artifact AND a token-conscious, structured distillate optimized for downstream LLM consumption.
```markdown
## Output strategy:
1. Primary: Human-facing document (exec summary, report, brief)
2. Optional: LLM distillate — dense, structured, token-efficient
- Captures overflow that doesn't belong in the human doc
- Rejected ideas (so downstream doesn't re-propose them)
- Detail bullets with just enough context to stand alone
- Designed to be loaded as context for the next workflow
```
**Why it works:** Human docs are concise by design — they can't carry all the detail surfaced during discovery. But that detail has value for downstream LLM workflows (PRD creation, architecture design, etc.). The distillate bridges the gap without bloating the primary artifact.
**When to use:** Any workflow producing documents that feed into subsequent LLM workflows. The distillate is always optional — offered to the user, not forced.
### Parallel Review Lenses
Before finalizing any artifact, fan out multiple reviewers with different perspectives to catch blind spots the builder/facilitator missed.
```markdown
## Near completion:
Fan out 2-3 review subagents in parallel:
- Skeptic: "What's missing? What assumptions are untested?"
- Opportunity Spotter: "What adjacent value? What angles?"
- Contextual Reviewer: LLM picks the best third lens
(e.g., "regulatory risk" for healthtech, "DX critic" for devtools)
Graceful degradation: If subagents unavailable,
main agent does a single critical self-review pass.
```
**Why it works:** A single perspective — even an expert one — has blind spots. Multiple lenses surface issues and opportunities that no single reviewer would catch. The contextually-chosen third lens ensures domain-specific concerns aren't missed.
**When to use:** Any workflow producing a significant artifact (briefs, PRDs, designs, architecture docs). The review step is lightweight but high-value.
### Three-Mode Architecture (Guided / Yolo / Autonomous)
For interactive workflows, offer three execution modes that match different user contexts:
| Mode | Trigger | Behavior |
|------|---------|----------|
| **Guided** | Default | Section-by-section with soft gates. Drafts from what it knows, questions what it doesn't. |
| **Yolo** | `--yolo` or "just draft it" | Ingests everything, drafts complete artifact upfront, then walks user through refinement. |
| **Headless** | `--headless` or `-H` | Headless mode. Takes inputs, produces artifact, no interaction. |
**Why it works:** Not every user wants the same experience. A first-timer needs guided discovery. A repeat user with clear inputs wants yolo. A pipeline wants autonomous. Same workflow, three entry points.
**When to use:** Any facilitative workflow that produces an artifact. Not all workflows need all three — but considering them during design prevents painting yourself into a single interaction model.
### Graceful Degradation
Every subagent-dependent feature should have a fallback path. If the platform doesn't support parallel subagents (or subagents at all), the workflow must still progress.
```markdown
## Subagent-dependent step:
Try: Fan out subagents in parallel
Fallback: Main agent performs the work sequentially
Never: Block the workflow because a subagent feature is unavailable
```
**Why it works:** Skills run across different platforms, models, and configurations. A skill that hard-fails without subagents is fragile. A skill that gracefully falls back to sequential processing is robust everywhere.
**When to use:** Any workflow that uses subagents for research, review, or parallel processing.
### Verifiable Intermediate Outputs
For complex tasks: plan → validate → execute → verify
1. Analyze inputs
2. **Create** `changes.json` with planned updates
3. **Validate** with script before executing
4. Execute changes
5. Verify output
Benefits: catches errors early, machine-verifiable, reversible planning.
## Writing Guidelines
- **Consistent terminology** — choose one term per concept, stick to it
- **Third person** in descriptions — "Processes files" not "I help process files"
- **Descriptive file names** — `form_validation_rules.md` not `doc2.md`
- **Forward slashes** in all paths — cross-platform
- **One level deep** for reference files — SKILL.md → reference.md, never SKILL.md → A.md → B.md
- **TOC for long files** — add table of contents for files >100 lines
## Anti-Patterns
| Anti-Pattern | Fix |
|---|---|
| Too many options upfront | One default with escape hatch for edge cases |
| Deep reference nesting (A→B→C) | Keep references 1 level from SKILL.md |
| Inconsistent terminology | Choose one term per concept |
| Vague file names | Name by content, not sequence |
| Scripts that classify meaning via regex | Intelligence belongs in prompts, not scripts |
## Scripts in Skills
- **Execute vs reference** — "Run `analyze.py` to extract fields" (execute) vs "See `analyze.py` for the algorithm" (read)
- **Document constants** — explain why `TIMEOUT = 30`, not just what
- **PEP 723 for Python** — self-contained scripts with inline dependency declarations
- **MCP tools** — use fully qualified names: `ServerName:tool_name`

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# Standard Workflow/Skill Fields
## Common Fields (All Types)
| Field | Description | Example |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| `name` | Full skill name (kebab-case) | `bmad-workflow-builder`, `bmad-validate-json` |
| `skillName` | Functional name (kebab-case) | `workflow-builder`, `validate-json` |
| `description` | [5-8 word summary]. [Use when user says 'X' or 'Y'.] | "Builds workflows through conversational discovery. Use when the user requests to 'build a workflow' or 'modify a workflow'." |
| `role-guidance` | Brief expertise primer | "Act as a senior DevOps engineer" |
| `module-code` | Module code (if module-based) | `bmb`, `cis` |
## Simple Utility Fields
| Field | Description | Example |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| `input-format` | What it accepts | JSON file path, stdin text |
| `output-format` | What it returns | Validated JSON, error report |
| `standalone` | Opts out of bmad-init? | true/false |
| `composability` | How other skills use it | "Called by quality scanners for validation" |
## Simple Workflow Fields
| Field | Description | Example |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| `steps` | Numbered inline steps | "1. Load config 2. Read input 3. Process" |
| `tools-used` | CLIs/tools/scripts | gh, jq, python scripts |
| `output` | What it produces | PR, report, file |
## Complex Workflow Fields
| Field | Description | Example |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| `stages` | Named numbered stages | "01-discover, 02-plan, 03-build" |
| `progression-conditions` | When stages complete | "User approves outline" |
| `headless-mode` | Supports autonomous? | true/false |
| `config-variables` | Beyond core vars | `planning_artifacts`, `output_folder` |
| `output-artifacts` | What it creates (output-location) | "PRD document", "agent skill" |
## Overview Section Format
The Overview is the first section after the title — it primes the AI for everything that follows.
**3-part formula:**
1. **What** — What this workflow/skill does
2. **How** — How it works (approach, key stages)
3. **Why/Outcome** — Value delivered, quality standard
**Templates by skill type:**
**Complex Workflow:**
```markdown
This skill helps you {outcome} through {approach}. Act as {role-guidance}, guiding users through {key stages}. Your output is {deliverable}.
```
**Simple Workflow:**
```markdown
This skill {what it does} by {approach}. Act as {role-guidance}. Use when {trigger conditions}. Produces {output}.
```
**Simple Utility:**
```markdown
This skill {what it does}. Use when {when to use}. Returns {output format} with {key feature}.
```
## SKILL.md Description Format
The frontmatter `description` is the PRIMARY trigger mechanism — it determines when the AI invokes this skill. Most BMad skills are **explicitly invoked** by name (`/skill-name` or direct request), so descriptions should be conservative to prevent accidental triggering.
**Format:** Two parts, one sentence each:
```
[What it does in 5-8 words]. [Use when user says 'specific phrase' or 'specific phrase'.]
```
**The trigger clause** uses one of these patterns depending on the skill's activation style:
- **Explicit invocation (default):** `Use when the user requests to 'create a PRD' or 'edit an existing PRD'.` — Quotes around specific phrases the user would actually say. Conservative — won't fire on casual mentions.
- **Organic/reactive:** `Trigger when code imports anthropic SDK, or user asks to use Claude API.` — For lightweight skills that should activate on contextual signals, not explicit requests.
**Examples:**
Good (explicit): `Builds workflows and skills through conversational discovery. Use when the user requests to 'build a workflow', 'modify a workflow', or 'quality check workflow'.`
Good (organic): `Initializes BMad project configuration. Trigger when any skill needs module-specific configuration values, or when setting up a new BMad project.`
Bad: `Helps with PRDs and product requirements.` — Too vague, would trigger on any mention of PRD even in passing conversation.
Bad: `Use on any mention of workflows, building, or creating things.` — Over-broad, would hijack unrelated conversations.
**Default to explicit invocation** unless the user specifically describes organic/reactive activation during discovery.
## Role Guidance Format
Every generated workflow SKILL.md includes a brief role statement in the Overview or as a standalone line:
```markdown
Act as {role-guidance}. {brief expertise/approach description}.
```
This provides quick prompt priming for expertise and tone. Workflows may also use full Identity/Communication Style/Principles sections when personality serves the workflow's purpose.
## Path Rules
Only use `{project-root}` for `_bmad` paths.
### Skill-Internal Files
Use bare relative paths (no prefix):
- `references/reference.md`
- `01-discover.md`
- `scripts/validate.py`
### Project `_bmad` Paths
Use `{project-root}/_bmad/...`:
- `{project-root}/_bmad/planning/prd.md`
- `{project-root}/_bmad/_memory/{skillName}-sidecar/`
### Config Variables
Use directly — they already contain `{project-root}` in their resolved values:
- `{output_folder}/file.md`
- `{planning_artifacts}/prd.md`
**Never:**
- `{project-root}/{output_folder}/file.md` (WRONG — double-prefix, config var already has path)
- `_bmad/planning/prd.md` (WRONG — bare `_bmad` must have `{project-root}` prefix)

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# Template Substitution Rules
When building the workflow/skill, you MUST apply these conditional blocks to the templates:
## Skill Type Conditionals
### Complex Workflow
- `{if-complex-workflow}` ... `{/if-complex-workflow}` → Keep the content inside
- `{if-simple-workflow}` ... `{/if-simple-workflow}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-simple-utility}` ... `{/if-simple-utility}` → Remove the entire block including markers
### Simple Workflow
- `{if-complex-workflow}` ... `{/if-complex-workflow}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-simple-workflow}` ... `{/if-simple-workflow}` → Keep the content inside
- `{if-simple-utility}` ... `{/if-simple-utility}` → Remove the entire block including markers
### Simple Utility
- `{if-complex-workflow}` ... `{/if-complex-workflow}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-simple-workflow}` ... `{/if-simple-workflow}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-simple-utility}` ... `{/if-simple-utility}` → Keep the content inside
## Module Conditionals
### For Module-Based Skills
- `{if-module}` ... `{/if-module}` → Keep the content inside
- `{if-standalone}` ... `{/if-standalone}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{module-code-or-empty}` → Replace with module code (e.g., `bmb-`)
### For Standalone Skills
- `{if-module}` ... `{/if-module}` → Remove the entire block including markers
- `{if-standalone}` ... `{/if-standalone}` → Keep the content inside
- `{module-code-or-empty}` → Empty string
## bmad-init Conditional
### Uses bmad-init (default)
- `{if-bmad-init}` ... `{/if-bmad-init}` → Keep the content inside
### Opted out of bmad-init (standalone utilities only)
- `{if-bmad-init}` ... `{/if-bmad-init}` → Remove the entire block including markers
## Feature Conditionals
### Headless Mode
- `{if-headless}` ... `{/if-headless}` → Keep if supports headless/autonomous mode, otherwise remove
### Creates Documents
- `{if-creates-docs}` ... `{/if-creates-docs}` → Keep if creates output documents, otherwise remove
### Has Stages (Complex Workflow)
- `{if-stages}` ... `{/if-stages}` → Keep if has numbered stage prompts, otherwise remove
### Has Scripts
- `{if-scripts}` ... `{/if-scripts}` → Keep if has scripts/ directory, otherwise remove
## External Skills
- `{if-external-skills}` ... `{/if-external-skills}` → Keep if skill uses external skills, otherwise remove
- `{external-skills-list}` → Replace with bulleted list of exact skill names:
```markdown
- `bmad-skill-name` — Description
```
## Frontmatter Placeholders
Replace all frontmatter placeholders:
- `{module-code-or-empty}` → Module code prefix (e.g., `bmb-`) or empty
- `{skill-name}` → Skill functional name (kebab-case)
- `{skill-description}` → Full description with trigger phrases
- `{role-guidance}` → Brief role/expertise statement
## Content Placeholders
Replace all content placeholders with skill-specific values:
- `{overview-template}` → Overview paragraph following 3-part formula (What, How, Why/Outcome)
- `{stage-N-name}` → Name of numbered stage
- `{stage-N-purpose}` → Purpose description of numbered stage
- `{progression-condition}` → When this stage completes
## Path References
All generated skills use these paths:
- `bmad-manifest.json` — Module metadata (if module-based)
- `references/{reference}.md` — Reference documents loaded on demand
- `01-{stage}.md` — Numbered stage prompts at skill root (complex workflows)
- `scripts/` — Python/shell scripts for deterministic operations (if needed)

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# Universal Scanner Output Schema
All quality scanners — both LLM-based and deterministic lint scripts — MUST produce output conforming to this schema. No exceptions.
## Top-Level Structure
```json
{
"scanner": "scanner-name",
"skill_path": "{path}",
"findings": [],
"assessments": {},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 0,
"by_severity": {},
"assessment": "1-2 sentence overall assessment"
}
}
```
| Key | Type | Required | Description |
|-----|------|----------|-------------|
| `scanner` | string | yes | Scanner identifier (e.g., `"workflow-integrity"`, `"prompt-craft"`) |
| `skill_path` | string | yes | Absolute path to the skill being scanned |
| `findings` | array | yes | ALL items — issues, strengths, suggestions, opportunities. Always an array, never an object |
| `assessments` | object | yes | Scanner-specific structured analysis (cohesion tables, health metrics, user journeys, etc.). Free-form per scanner |
| `summary` | object | yes | Aggregate counts and brief overall assessment |
## Finding Schema (7 fields)
Every item in `findings[]` has exactly these 7 fields:
```json
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 42,
"severity": "high",
"category": "frontmatter",
"title": "Brief headline of the finding",
"detail": "Full context — rationale, what was observed, why it matters",
"action": "What to do about it — fix, suggestion, or script to create"
}
```
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `file` | string | yes | Relative path to the affected file (e.g., `"SKILL.md"`, `"scripts/build.py"`). Empty string if not file-specific |
| `line` | int\|null | no | Line number (1-based). `null` or `0` if not line-specific |
| `severity` | string | yes | One of the severity values below |
| `category` | string | yes | Scanner-specific category (e.g., `"frontmatter"`, `"token-waste"`, `"lint"`) |
| `title` | string | yes | Brief headline (1 sentence). This is the primary display text |
| `detail` | string | yes | Full context — fold rationale, observation, impact, nuance into one narrative. Empty string if title is self-explanatory |
| `action` | string | yes | What to do — fix instruction, suggestion, or script to create. Empty string for strengths/notes |
## Severity Values (complete enum)
```
critical | high | medium | low | high-opportunity | medium-opportunity | low-opportunity | suggestion | strength | note
```
**Routing rules:**
- `critical`, `high` → "Truly Broken" section in report
- `medium`, `low` → category-specific findings sections
- `high-opportunity`, `medium-opportunity`, `low-opportunity` → enhancement/creative sections
- `suggestion` → creative suggestions section
- `strength` → strengths section (positive observations worth preserving)
- `note` → informational observations, also routed to strengths
## Assessment Sub-Structure Contracts
The `assessments` object is free-form per scanner, but the HTML report renderer expects specific shapes for specific keys. These are the canonical formats.
### user_journeys (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
**Always an array of objects. Never an object keyed by persona.**
```json
"user_journeys": [
{
"archetype": "first-timer",
"summary": "Brief narrative of this user's experience",
"friction_points": ["moment 1", "moment 2"],
"bright_spots": ["what works well"]
}
]
```
### autonomous_assessment (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
```json
"autonomous_assessment": {
"potential": "headless-ready|easily-adaptable|partially-adaptable|fundamentally-interactive",
"hitl_points": 3,
"auto_resolvable": 2,
"needs_input": 1,
"notes": "Brief assessment"
}
```
### top_insights (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
**Always an array of objects with title/detail/action (same shape as findings but without file/line/severity/category).**
```json
"top_insights": [
{
"title": "The key observation",
"detail": "Why it matters",
"action": "What to do about it"
}
]
```
### cohesion_analysis (skill-cohesion / agent-cohesion scanner)
```json
"cohesion_analysis": {
"dimension_name": { "score": "strong|moderate|weak", "notes": "explanation" }
}
```
Dimension names are scanner-specific (e.g., `stage_flow_coherence`, `persona_alignment`). The report renderer iterates all keys and renders a table row per dimension.
### skill_identity / agent_identity (cohesion scanners)
```json
"skill_identity": {
"name": "skill-name",
"purpose_summary": "Brief characterization",
"primary_outcome": "What this skill produces"
}
```
### skillmd_assessment (prompt-craft scanner)
```json
"skillmd_assessment": {
"overview_quality": "appropriate|excessive|missing",
"progressive_disclosure": "good|needs-extraction|monolithic",
"notes": "brief assessment"
}
```
Agent variant adds `"persona_context": "appropriate|excessive|missing"`.
### prompt_health (prompt-craft scanner)
```json
"prompt_health": {
"total_prompts": 3,
"with_config_header": 2,
"with_progression": 1,
"self_contained": 3
}
```
### skill_understanding (enhancement-opportunities scanner)
```json
"skill_understanding": {
"purpose": "what this skill does",
"primary_user": "who it's for",
"assumptions": ["assumption 1", "assumption 2"]
}
```
### stage_summary (workflow-integrity scanner)
```json
"stage_summary": {
"total_stages": 0,
"missing_stages": [],
"orphaned_stages": [],
"stages_without_progression": [],
"stages_without_config_header": []
}
```
### metadata (structure scanner)
Free-form key-value pairs. Rendered as a metadata block.
### script_summary (scripts lint)
```json
"script_summary": {
"total_scripts": 5,
"by_type": {"python": 3, "shell": 2},
"missing_tests": ["script1.py"]
}
```
### existing_scripts (script-opportunities scanner)
Array of strings (script paths that already exist).
## Complete Example
```json
{
"scanner": "workflow-integrity",
"skill_path": "/path/to/skill",
"findings": [
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 12,
"severity": "high",
"category": "frontmatter",
"title": "Missing required 'version' field in frontmatter",
"detail": "The SKILL.md frontmatter is missing the version field. This prevents the manifest generator from producing correct output and breaks version-aware consumers.",
"action": "Add 'version: 1.0.0' to the YAML frontmatter block"
},
{
"file": "build-process.md",
"line": null,
"severity": "strength",
"category": "design",
"title": "Excellent progressive disclosure pattern in build stages",
"detail": "Each stage provides exactly the context needed without front-loading information. This reduces token waste and improves LLM comprehension.",
"action": ""
},
{
"file": "SKILL.md",
"line": 45,
"severity": "medium-opportunity",
"category": "experience-gap",
"title": "No guidance for first-time users unfamiliar with build workflows",
"detail": "A user encountering this skill for the first time has no onboarding path. The skill assumes familiarity with stage-based workflows, which creates friction for newcomers.",
"action": "Add a 'Getting Started' section or link to onboarding documentation"
}
],
"assessments": {
"stage_summary": {
"total_stages": 7,
"missing_stages": [],
"orphaned_stages": ["cleanup"]
}
},
"summary": {
"total_findings": 3,
"by_severity": {"high": 1, "medium-opportunity": 1, "strength": 1},
"assessment": "Well-structured skill with one critical frontmatter gap. Progressive disclosure is a notable strength."
}
}
```
## DO NOT
- **DO NOT** rename fields. Use exactly: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`
- **DO NOT** use `issues` instead of `findings` — the array is always called `findings`
- **DO NOT** add fields to findings beyond the 7 defined above. Put scanner-specific structured data in `assessments`
- **DO NOT** use separate arrays for strengths, suggestions, or opportunities — they go in `findings` with appropriate severity values
- **DO NOT** change `user_journeys` from an array to an object keyed by persona name
- **DO NOT** restructure assessment sub-objects — use the shapes defined above
- **DO NOT** put free-form narrative data into `assessments` — that belongs in `detail` fields of findings or in `summary.assessment`
## Self-Check Before Output
Before writing your JSON output, verify:
1. Is your array called `findings` (not `issues`, not `opportunities`)?
2. Does every item in `findings` have all 7 fields: `file`, `line`, `severity`, `category`, `title`, `detail`, `action`?
3. Are strengths in `findings` with `severity: "strength"` (not in a separate `strengths` array)?
4. Are suggestions in `findings` with `severity: "suggestion"` (not in a separate `creative_suggestions` array)?
5. Is `assessments` an object containing structured analysis data (not items that belong in findings)?
6. Is `user_journeys` an array of objects (not an object keyed by persona)?
7. Do `top_insights` items use `title`/`detail`/`action` (not `insight`/`suggestion`/`why_it_matters`)?

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# Quality Scan Report Creator
You are a master quality engineer tech writer agent QualityReportBot-9001. You create comprehensive, cohesive quality reports from multiple scanner outputs. You read all temporary JSON fragments, consolidate findings, remove duplicates, and produce a well-organized markdown report using the provided template. You are quality obsessed — nothing gets dropped. You will never attempt to fix anything — you are a writer, not a fixer.
## Inputs
- `{skill-path}` — Path to the workflow/skill being validated
- `{quality-report-dir}` — Directory containing scanner temp files AND where to write the final report
## Template
Read `assets/quality-report-template.md` for the report structure. The template contains:
- `{placeholder}` markers — replace with actual data
- `{if-section}...{/if-section}` blocks — include only when data exists, omit entirely when empty
- `<!-- comments -->` — inline guidance for what data to pull and from where; strip from final output
## Process
### Step 1: Ingest Everything
1. Read `assets/quality-report-template.md`
2. List ALL files in `{quality-report-dir}` — both `*-temp.json` (scanner findings) and `*-prepass.json` (structural metrics)
3. Read EVERY JSON file
### Step 2: Extract All Data Types
All scanners now use the universal schema defined in `references/universal-scan-schema.md`. Scanner-specific data lives in `assessments{}`, not as top-level keys.
For each scanner file, extract not just `findings` arrays but ALL of these data types:
| Data Type | Where It Lives | Report Destination |
|-----------|---------------|-------------------|
| Issues/findings (severity: critical-low) | All scanner `findings[]` | Detailed Findings by Category |
| Strengths (severity: "strength"/"note", category: "strength") | All scanners: findings where severity="strength" | Strengths section |
| Cohesion dimensional analysis | skill-cohesion `assessments.cohesion_analysis` | Cohesion Analysis table |
| Craft & skill assessment | prompt-craft `assessments.skillmd_assessment`, `assessments.prompt_health`, `summary.assessment` | Prompt Craft section header + Executive Summary |
| User journeys | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.user_journeys[]` | User Journeys section |
| Autonomous assessment | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.autonomous_assessment` | Autonomous Readiness section |
| Skill understanding | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.skill_understanding` | Creative section header |
| Top insights | enhancement-opportunities `assessments.top_insights[]` | Top Insights in Creative section |
| Creative suggestions | `findings[]` with severity="suggestion" (no separate creative_suggestions array) | Creative Suggestions in Cohesion section |
| Optimization opportunities | `findings[]` with severity ending in "-opportunity" (no separate opportunities array) | Optimization Opportunities in Efficiency section |
| Script inventory & token savings | scripts `assessments.script_summary`, script-opportunities `summary` | Scripts section |
| Stage summary | workflow-integrity `assessments.stage_summary` | Structural section header |
| Prepass metrics | `*-prepass.json` files | Context data points where useful |
### Step 3: Populate Template
Fill the template section by section, following the `<!-- comment -->` guidance in each. Key rules:
- **Conditional sections:** Only include `{if-...}` blocks when the data exists. If a scanner didn't produce user_journeys, omit the entire User Journeys section.
- **Empty severity levels:** Within a category, omit severity sub-headers that have zero findings (don't write "**Critical Issues** — None").
- **Strip comments:** Remove all `<!-- ... -->` blocks from final output.
### Step 4: Deduplicate
- **Same issue, two scanners:** Keep ONE entry, cite both sources. Use the more detailed description.
- **Same issue pattern, multiple files:** List once with all file:line references in a table.
- **Issue + strength about same thing:** Keep BOTH — strength shows what works, issue shows what could be better.
- **Overlapping creative suggestions:** Merge into the richer description.
- **Routing:** "note"/"strength" severity → Strengths section. "suggestion" severity → Creative subsection. Do not mix these into issue lists.
### Step 5: Verification Pass
**This step is mandatory.** After populating the report, re-read every temp file and verify against this checklist:
- [ ] Every finding from every `*-temp.json` findings[] array
- [ ] All findings with severity="strength" from any scanner
- [ ] All positive notes from prompt-craft (severity="note")
- [ ] Cohesion analysis dimensional scores table (if present)
- [ ] Craft assessment and skill assessment summaries
- [ ] ALL user journeys with ALL friction_points and bright_spots per archetype
- [ ] The autonomous_assessment block (all fields)
- [ ] All findings with severity="suggestion" from cohesion scanners
- [ ] All findings with severity ending in "-opportunity" from execution-efficiency
- [ ] assessments.top_insights from enhancement-opportunities
- [ ] Script inventory and token savings from script-opportunities
- [ ] Skill understanding (purpose, primary_user, key_assumptions)
- [ ] Stage summary from workflow-integrity (if stages exist)
- [ ] Prompt health summary from prompt-craft (if prompts exist)
If any item was dropped, add it to the appropriate section before writing.
### Step 6: Write and Return
Write report to: `{quality-report-dir}/quality-report.md`
Return JSON:
```json
{
"report_file": "{full-path-to-report}",
"summary": {
"total_issues": 0,
"critical": 0,
"high": 0,
"medium": 0,
"low": 0,
"strengths_count": 0,
"enhancements_count": 0,
"user_journeys_count": 0,
"overall_quality": "Excellent|Good|Fair|Poor",
"overall_cohesion": "cohesive|mostly-cohesive|fragmented|confused",
"craft_assessment": "brief summary from prompt-craft",
"truly_broken_found": true,
"truly_broken_count": 0
},
"by_category": {
"structural": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"prompt_craft": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"cohesion": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"efficiency": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"quality": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"scripts": {"critical": 0, "high": 0, "medium": 0, "low": 0},
"creative": {"high_opportunity": 0, "medium_opportunity": 0, "low_opportunity": 0}
},
"high_impact_quick_wins": [
{"issue": "description", "file": "location", "effort": "low"}
]
}
```
## Scanner Reference
| Scanner | Temp File | Primary Category |
|---------|-----------|-----------------|
| workflow-integrity | workflow-integrity-temp.json | Structural |
| prompt-craft | prompt-craft-temp.json | Prompt Craft |
| skill-cohesion | skill-cohesion-temp.json | Cohesion |
| execution-efficiency | execution-efficiency-temp.json | Efficiency |
| path-standards | path-standards-temp.json | Quality |
| scripts | scripts-temp.json | Scripts |
| script-opportunities | script-opportunities-temp.json | Scripts |
| enhancement-opportunities | enhancement-opportunities-temp.json | Creative |

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{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"title": "BMad Manifest Schema",
"description": "Unified schema for all BMad skill manifest files (agents, workflows, skills)",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"$schema": {
"description": "JSON Schema identifier",
"type": "string"
},
"module-code": {
"description": "Short code for the module this skill belongs to (e.g., bmb, cis). Omit for standalone skills.",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$"
},
"replaces-skill": {
"description": "Registered name of the BMad skill this replaces. Inherits metadata during bmad-init.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"persona": {
"description": "Succinct distillation of the agent's essence — who they are, how they operate, what drives them. Presence of this field indicates the skill is an agent. Useful for other skills/agents to understand who they're interacting with.",
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1
},
"has-memory": {
"description": "Whether this skill persists state across sessions via sidecar memory.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"capabilities": {
"description": "What this skill can do. Every skill has at least one capability.",
"type": "array",
"minItems": 1,
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"description": "Capability identifier (kebab-case)",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$"
},
"menu-code": {
"description": "2-3 uppercase letter shortcut for interactive menus",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[A-Z]{2,3}$"
},
"description": {
"description": "What this capability does and when to suggest it",
"type": "string"
},
"supports-headless": {
"description": "Whether this capability can run without user interaction",
"type": "boolean"
},
"prompt": {
"description": "Relative path to the prompt file for internal capabilities (e.g., build-process.md). Omit if handled by SKILL.md directly or if this is an external skill call.",
"type": "string"
},
"skill-name": {
"description": "Registered name of an external skill this capability delegates to. Omit for internal capabilities.",
"type": "string"
},
"phase-name": {
"description": "Which module phase this capability belongs to (e.g., planning, design, anytime). For module sequencing.",
"type": "string"
},
"after": {
"description": "Skill names that should ideally run before this capability. If is-required is true on those skills, they block this one.",
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"before": {
"description": "Skill names that this capability should ideally run before. Helps the module sequencer understand ordering.",
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"is-required": {
"description": "Whether this capability must complete before skills listed in its 'before' array can proceed.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"output-location": {
"description": "Where this capability writes its output. May contain config variables (e.g., {bmad_builder_output_folder}/agents/).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": ["name", "menu-code", "description"],
"additionalProperties": false
}
}
},
"required": ["capabilities"],
"additionalProperties": false
}

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""BMad manifest CRUD and validation.
All manifest operations go through this script. Validation runs automatically
on every write. Prompts call this instead of touching JSON directly.
Usage:
python3 scripts/manifest.py create <skill-path> [options]
python3 scripts/manifest.py add-capability <skill-path> [options]
python3 scripts/manifest.py update <skill-path> --set key=value [...]
python3 scripts/manifest.py remove-capability <skill-path> --name <name>
python3 scripts/manifest.py read <skill-path> [--capabilities|--capability <name>]
python3 scripts/manifest.py validate <skill-path>
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# dependencies = [
# "jsonschema>=4.0.0",
# ]
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any
try:
from jsonschema import Draft7Validator
except ImportError:
print("Error: jsonschema required. Run with: uv run scripts/manifest.py (PEP 723 handles deps)", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
MANIFEST_FILENAME = "bmad-manifest.json"
SCHEMA_FILENAME = "bmad-manifest-schema.json"
def get_schema_path() -> Path:
"""Schema is co-located with this script."""
return Path(__file__).parent / SCHEMA_FILENAME
def get_manifest_path(skill_path: Path) -> Path:
return skill_path / MANIFEST_FILENAME
def load_schema() -> dict[str, Any]:
path = get_schema_path()
if not path.exists():
print(f"Error: Schema not found: {path}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
with path.open() as f:
return json.load(f)
def load_manifest(skill_path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
path = get_manifest_path(skill_path)
if not path.exists():
return {}
with path.open() as f:
try:
return json.load(f)
except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
print(f"Error: Invalid JSON in {path}: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
def save_manifest(skill_path: Path, data: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
"""Save manifest after validation. Returns True if valid and saved."""
errors = validate(data)
if errors:
print(f"Validation failed with {len(errors)} error(s):", file=sys.stderr)
for err in errors:
print(f" [{err['path']}] {err['message']}", file=sys.stderr)
return False
path = get_manifest_path(skill_path)
path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
with path.open("w") as f:
json.dump(data, f, indent=2)
f.write("\n")
return True
def validate(data: dict[str, Any]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Validate manifest against schema. Returns list of errors."""
schema = load_schema()
validator = Draft7Validator(schema)
errors = []
for error in validator.iter_errors(data):
errors.append({
"path": ".".join(str(p) for p in error.path) if error.path else "root",
"message": error.message,
})
return errors
def validate_extras(data: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
"""Additional checks beyond schema validation."""
warnings = []
capabilities = data.get("capabilities", [])
if not capabilities:
warnings.append("No capabilities defined — every skill needs at least one")
return warnings
menu_codes: dict[str, str] = {}
for i, cap in enumerate(capabilities):
name = cap.get("name", f"<capability-{i}>")
# Duplicate menu-code check
mc = cap.get("menu-code", "")
if mc and mc in menu_codes:
warnings.append(f"Duplicate menu-code '{mc}' in '{menu_codes[mc]}' and '{name}'")
elif mc:
menu_codes[mc] = name
# Both prompt and skill-name
if "prompt" in cap and "skill-name" in cap:
warnings.append(f"Capability '{name}' has both 'prompt' and 'skill-name' — pick one")
return warnings
# --- Commands ---
def cmd_create(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
existing = load_manifest(skill_path)
if existing:
print(f"Error: Manifest already exists at {get_manifest_path(skill_path)}", file=sys.stderr)
print("Use 'update' to modify or delete the file first.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
data: dict[str, Any] = {}
if args.module_code:
data["module-code"] = args.module_code
if args.replaces_skill:
data["replaces-skill"] = args.replaces_skill
if args.persona:
data["persona"] = args.persona
if args.has_memory:
data["has-memory"] = True
data["capabilities"] = []
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Created {get_manifest_path(skill_path)}")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_add_capability(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found. Run 'create' first.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
capabilities = data.setdefault("capabilities", [])
# Check for duplicate name
for cap in capabilities:
if cap.get("name") == args.name:
print(f"Error: Capability '{args.name}' already exists. Use 'update' to modify.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
cap: dict[str, Any] = {
"name": args.name,
"menu-code": args.menu_code,
"description": args.description,
}
if args.supports_autonomous:
cap["supports-headless"] = True
if args.prompt:
cap["prompt"] = args.prompt
if args.skill_name:
cap["skill-name"] = args.skill_name
if args.phase_name:
cap["phase-name"] = args.phase_name
if args.after:
cap["after"] = args.after
if args.before:
cap["before"] = args.before
if args.is_required:
cap["is-required"] = True
if args.output_location:
cap["output-location"] = args.output_location
capabilities.append(cap)
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Added capability '{args.name}' [{args.menu_code}]")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_update(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found. Run 'create' first.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
# Parse --set key=value pairs
for pair in args.set:
if "=" not in pair:
print(f"Error: Invalid --set format '{pair}'. Use key=value.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
key, value = pair.split("=", 1)
# Handle boolean values
if value.lower() == "true":
value = True
elif value.lower() == "false":
value = False
# Handle capability updates: capability.name.field=value
if key.startswith("capability."):
parts = key.split(".", 2)
if len(parts) != 3:
print("Error: Capability update format: capability.<name>.<field>=<value>", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
cap_name, field = parts[1], parts[2]
found = False
for cap in data.get("capabilities", []):
if cap.get("name") == cap_name:
cap[field] = value
found = True
break
if not found:
print(f"Error: Capability '{cap_name}' not found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
else:
# Handle removing fields with empty value
if value == "":
data.pop(key, None)
else:
data[key] = value
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Updated {get_manifest_path(skill_path)}")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_remove_capability(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
capabilities = data.get("capabilities", [])
original_len = len(capabilities)
data["capabilities"] = [c for c in capabilities if c.get("name") != args.name]
if len(data["capabilities"]) == original_len:
print(f"Error: Capability '{args.name}' not found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if save_manifest(skill_path, data):
print(f"Removed capability '{args.name}'")
return 0
return 1
def cmd_read(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if args.capabilities:
caps = data.get("capabilities", [])
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(caps, indent=2))
else:
for cap in caps:
prompt_or_skill = cap.get("prompt", cap.get("skill-name", "(SKILL.md)"))
auto = " [autonomous]" if cap.get("supports-headless") else ""
print(f" [{cap.get('menu-code', '??')}] {cap['name']} — {cap.get('description', '')}{auto}")
print(f" → {prompt_or_skill}")
return 0
if args.capability:
for cap in data.get("capabilities", []):
if cap.get("name") == args.capability:
print(json.dumps(cap, indent=2))
return 0
print(f"Error: Capability '{args.capability}' not found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if args.json:
print(json.dumps(data, indent=2))
else:
# Summary view
is_agent = "persona" in data
print(f"Type: {'Agent' if is_agent else 'Workflow/Skill'}")
if data.get("module-code"):
print(f"Module: {data['module-code']}")
if is_agent:
print(f"Persona: {data['persona'][:80]}...")
if data.get("has-memory"):
print("Memory: enabled")
caps = data.get("capabilities", [])
print(f"Capabilities: {len(caps)}")
for cap in caps:
prompt_or_skill = cap.get("prompt", cap.get("skill-name", "(SKILL.md)"))
auto = " [autonomous]" if cap.get("supports-headless") else ""
print(f" [{cap.get('menu-code', '??')}] {cap['name']}{auto} → {prompt_or_skill}")
return 0
def cmd_validate(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
skill_path = Path(args.skill_path).resolve()
data = load_manifest(skill_path)
if not data:
print("Error: No manifest found.", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
errors = validate(data)
warnings = validate_extras(data)
if args.json:
print(json.dumps({
"valid": len(errors) == 0,
"errors": errors,
"warnings": warnings,
}, indent=2))
else:
if not errors:
print("✓ Manifest is valid")
else:
print(f"✗ {len(errors)} error(s):", file=sys.stderr)
for err in errors:
print(f" [{err['path']}] {err['message']}", file=sys.stderr)
if warnings:
print(f"\n⚠ {len(warnings)} warning(s):", file=sys.stderr)
for w in warnings:
print(f" {w}", file=sys.stderr)
return 0 if not errors else 1
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="BMad manifest CRUD and validation",
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
)
sub = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
# create
p_create = sub.add_parser("create", help="Create a new manifest")
p_create.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_create.add_argument("--module-code", type=str)
p_create.add_argument("--replaces-skill", type=str)
p_create.add_argument("--persona", type=str)
p_create.add_argument("--has-memory", action="store_true")
# add-capability
p_add = sub.add_parser("add-capability", help="Add a capability")
p_add.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_add.add_argument("--name", required=True, type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--menu-code", required=True, type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--description", required=True, type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--supports-autonomous", action="store_true")
p_add.add_argument("--prompt", type=str, help="Relative path to prompt file")
p_add.add_argument("--skill-name", type=str, help="External skill name")
p_add.add_argument("--phase-name", type=str)
p_add.add_argument("--after", nargs="*", help="Skill names that should run before this")
p_add.add_argument("--before", nargs="*", help="Skill names this should run before")
p_add.add_argument("--is-required", action="store_true")
p_add.add_argument("--output-location", type=str)
# update
p_update = sub.add_parser("update", help="Update manifest fields")
p_update.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_update.add_argument("--set", nargs="+", required=True, help="key=value pairs")
# remove-capability
p_remove = sub.add_parser("remove-capability", help="Remove a capability")
p_remove.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_remove.add_argument("--name", required=True, type=str)
# read
p_read = sub.add_parser("read", help="Read manifest")
p_read.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_read.add_argument("--capabilities", action="store_true", help="List capabilities only")
p_read.add_argument("--capability", type=str, help="Show specific capability")
p_read.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="JSON output")
# validate
p_validate = sub.add_parser("validate", help="Validate manifest")
p_validate.add_argument("skill_path", type=str, help="Path to skill directory")
p_validate.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="JSON output")
args = parser.parse_args()
commands = {
"create": cmd_create,
"add-capability": cmd_add_capability,
"update": cmd_update,
"remove-capability": cmd_remove_capability,
"read": cmd_read,
"validate": cmd_validate,
}
return commands[args.command](args)
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic pre-pass for execution efficiency scanner.
Extracts dependency graph data and execution patterns from a BMad skill
so the LLM scanner can evaluate efficiency from compact structured data.
Covers:
- Dependency graph from bmad-manifest.json (after, before arrays)
- Circular dependency detection
- Transitive dependency redundancy
- Parallelizable stage groups (independent nodes)
- Sequential pattern detection in prompts (numbered Read/Grep/Glob steps)
- Subagent-from-subagent detection
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
def detect_cycles(graph: dict[str, list[str]]) -> list[list[str]]:
"""Detect circular dependencies in a directed graph using DFS."""
cycles = []
visited = set()
path = []
path_set = set()
def dfs(node: str) -> None:
if node in path_set:
cycle_start = path.index(node)
cycles.append(path[cycle_start:] + [node])
return
if node in visited:
return
visited.add(node)
path.append(node)
path_set.add(node)
for neighbor in graph.get(node, []):
dfs(neighbor)
path.pop()
path_set.discard(node)
for node in graph:
dfs(node)
return cycles
def find_transitive_redundancy(graph: dict[str, list[str]]) -> list[dict]:
"""Find cases where A declares dependency on C, but A->B->C already exists."""
redundancies = []
def get_transitive(node: str, visited: set | None = None) -> set[str]:
if visited is None:
visited = set()
for dep in graph.get(node, []):
if dep not in visited:
visited.add(dep)
get_transitive(dep, visited)
return visited
for node, direct_deps in graph.items():
for dep in direct_deps:
# Check if dep is reachable through other direct deps
other_deps = [d for d in direct_deps if d != dep]
for other in other_deps:
transitive = get_transitive(other)
if dep in transitive:
redundancies.append({
'node': node,
'redundant_dep': dep,
'already_via': other,
'issue': f'"{node}" declares "{dep}" as dependency, but already reachable via "{other}"',
})
return redundancies
def find_parallel_groups(graph: dict[str, list[str]], all_nodes: set[str]) -> list[list[str]]:
"""Find groups of nodes that have no dependencies on each other (can run in parallel)."""
# Nodes with no incoming edges from other nodes in the set
independent_groups = []
# Simple approach: find all nodes at each "level" of the DAG
remaining = set(all_nodes)
while remaining:
# Nodes whose dependencies are all satisfied (not in remaining)
ready = set()
for node in remaining:
deps = set(graph.get(node, []))
if not deps & remaining:
ready.add(node)
if not ready:
break # Circular dependency, can't proceed
if len(ready) > 1:
independent_groups.append(sorted(ready))
remaining -= ready
return independent_groups
def scan_sequential_patterns(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Detect sequential operation patterns that could be parallel."""
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
patterns = []
# Sequential numbered steps with Read/Grep/Glob
tool_steps = re.findall(
r'^\s*\d+\.\s+.*?\b(Read|Grep|Glob|read|grep|glob)\b.*$',
content, re.MULTILINE
)
if len(tool_steps) >= 3:
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': 'sequential-tool-calls',
'count': len(tool_steps),
'issue': f'{len(tool_steps)} sequential tool call steps found — check if independent calls can be parallel',
})
# "Read all files" / "for each" loop patterns
loop_patterns = [
(r'[Rr]ead all (?:files|documents|prompts)', 'read-all'),
(r'[Ff]or each (?:file|document|prompt|stage)', 'for-each-loop'),
(r'[Aa]nalyze each', 'analyze-each'),
(r'[Ss]can (?:through|all|each)', 'scan-all'),
(r'[Rr]eview (?:all|each)', 'review-all'),
]
for pattern, ptype in loop_patterns:
matches = re.findall(pattern, content)
if matches:
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': ptype,
'count': len(matches),
'issue': f'"{matches[0]}" pattern found — consider parallel subagent delegation',
})
# Subagent spawning from subagent (impossible)
if re.search(r'(?i)spawn.*subagent|launch.*subagent|create.*subagent', content):
# Check if this file IS a subagent (non-SKILL.md, non-numbered prompt at root)
if rel_path != 'SKILL.md' and not re.match(r'^\d+-', rel_path):
patterns.append({
'file': rel_path,
'type': 'subagent-chain-violation',
'count': 1,
'issue': 'Subagent file references spawning other subagents — subagents cannot spawn subagents',
})
return patterns
def scan_execution_deps(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Run all deterministic execution efficiency checks."""
# Parse manifest for dependency graph
dep_graph: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
prefer_after: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
all_stages: set[str] = set()
manifest_found = False
for manifest_path in [
skill_path / 'bmad-manifest.json',
]:
if manifest_path.exists():
manifest_found = True
try:
data = json.loads(manifest_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8'))
if isinstance(data, dict):
# Single manifest
name = data.get('name', manifest_path.stem)
all_stages.add(name)
# New unified format uses per-capability fields
caps = data.get('capabilities', [])
for cap in caps:
cap_name = cap.get('name', name)
# 'after' = hard/soft dependencies (things that should run before this)
dep_graph[cap_name] = cap.get('after', []) or []
# 'before' = downstream consumers (things this should run before)
prefer_after[cap_name] = cap.get('before', []) or []
all_stages.add(cap_name)
except json.JSONDecodeError:
pass
break
# Also check for stage-level prompt files at skill root
for f in sorted(skill_path.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name != 'SKILL.md':
all_stages.add(f.stem)
# Cycle detection
cycles = detect_cycles(dep_graph)
# Transitive redundancy
redundancies = find_transitive_redundancy(dep_graph)
# Parallel groups
parallel_groups = find_parallel_groups(dep_graph, all_stages)
# Sequential pattern detection across all prompt and agent files at root
sequential_patterns = []
for f in sorted(skill_path.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name != 'SKILL.md':
patterns = scan_sequential_patterns(f, f.name)
sequential_patterns.extend(patterns)
# Also scan SKILL.md
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if skill_md.exists():
sequential_patterns.extend(scan_sequential_patterns(skill_md, 'SKILL.md'))
# Build issues from deterministic findings
issues = []
for cycle in cycles:
issues.append({
'severity': 'critical',
'category': 'circular-dependency',
'issue': f'Circular dependency detected: {" → ".join(cycle)}',
})
for r in redundancies:
issues.append({
'severity': 'medium',
'category': 'dependency-bloat',
'issue': r['issue'],
})
for p in sequential_patterns:
severity = 'critical' if p['type'] == 'subagent-chain-violation' else 'medium'
issues.append({
'file': p['file'],
'severity': severity,
'category': p['type'],
'issue': p['issue'],
})
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
for issue in issues:
sev = issue['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
status = 'pass'
if by_severity['critical'] > 0:
status = 'fail'
elif by_severity['medium'] > 0:
status = 'warning'
return {
'scanner': 'execution-efficiency-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-execution-deps.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': status,
'dependency_graph': {
'manifest_found': manifest_found,
'stages': sorted(all_stages),
'hard_dependencies': dep_graph,
'soft_dependencies': prefer_after,
'cycles': cycles,
'transitive_redundancies': redundancies,
'parallel_groups': parallel_groups,
},
'sequential_patterns': sequential_patterns,
'issues': issues,
'summary': {
'total_issues': len(issues),
'by_severity': by_severity,
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Extract execution dependency graph and patterns for LLM scanner pre-pass',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_execution_deps(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic pre-pass for prompt craft scanner.
Extracts metrics and flagged patterns from SKILL.md and prompt files
so the LLM scanner can work from compact data instead of reading raw files.
Covers:
- SKILL.md line count and section inventory
- Overview section size
- Inline data detection (tables, fenced code blocks)
- Defensive padding pattern grep
- Meta-explanation pattern grep
- Back-reference detection ("as described above")
- Config header and progression condition presence per prompt
- File-level token estimates (chars / 4 rough approximation)
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# Defensive padding / filler patterns
WASTE_PATTERNS = [
(r'\b[Mm]ake sure (?:to|you)\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "make sure to/you"'),
(r"\b[Dd]on'?t forget (?:to|that)\b", 'defensive-padding', "Defensive: \"don't forget\""),
(r'\b[Rr]emember (?:to|that)\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "remember to/that"'),
(r'\b[Bb]e sure to\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "be sure to"'),
(r'\b[Pp]lease ensure\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "please ensure"'),
(r'\b[Ii]t is important (?:to|that)\b', 'defensive-padding', 'Defensive: "it is important"'),
(r'\b[Yy]ou are an AI\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "you are an AI"'),
(r'\b[Aa]s a language model\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "as a language model"'),
(r'\b[Aa]s an AI assistant\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "as an AI assistant"'),
(r'\b[Tt]his (?:workflow|skill|process) is designed to\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "this workflow is designed to"'),
(r'\b[Tt]he purpose of this (?:section|step) is\b', 'meta-explanation', 'Meta: "the purpose of this section is"'),
(r"\b[Ll]et'?s (?:think about|begin|start)\b", 'filler', "Filler: \"let's think/begin\""),
(r'\b[Nn]ow we(?:\'ll| will)\b', 'filler', "Filler: \"now we'll\""),
]
# Back-reference patterns (self-containment risk)
BACKREF_PATTERNS = [
(r'\bas described above\b', 'Back-reference: "as described above"'),
(r'\bper the overview\b', 'Back-reference: "per the overview"'),
(r'\bas mentioned (?:above|in|earlier)\b', 'Back-reference: "as mentioned above/in/earlier"'),
(r'\bsee (?:above|the overview)\b', 'Back-reference: "see above/the overview"'),
(r'\brefer to (?:the )?(?:above|overview|SKILL)\b', 'Back-reference: "refer to above/overview"'),
]
def count_tables(content: str) -> tuple[int, int]:
"""Count markdown tables and their total lines."""
table_count = 0
table_lines = 0
in_table = False
for line in content.split('\n'):
if '|' in line and re.match(r'^\s*\|', line):
if not in_table:
table_count += 1
in_table = True
table_lines += 1
else:
in_table = False
return table_count, table_lines
def count_fenced_blocks(content: str) -> tuple[int, int]:
"""Count fenced code blocks and their total lines."""
block_count = 0
block_lines = 0
in_block = False
for line in content.split('\n'):
if line.strip().startswith('```'):
if in_block:
in_block = False
else:
in_block = True
block_count += 1
elif in_block:
block_lines += 1
return block_count, block_lines
def extract_overview_size(content: str) -> int:
"""Count lines in the ## Overview section."""
lines = content.split('\n')
in_overview = False
overview_lines = 0
for line in lines:
if re.match(r'^##\s+Overview\b', line):
in_overview = True
continue
elif in_overview and re.match(r'^##\s', line):
break
elif in_overview:
overview_lines += 1
return overview_lines
def scan_file_patterns(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> dict:
"""Extract metrics and pattern matches from a single file."""
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# Token estimate (rough: chars / 4)
token_estimate = len(content) // 4
# Section inventory
sections = []
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = re.match(r'^(#{2,3})\s+(.+)$', line)
if m:
sections.append({'level': len(m.group(1)), 'title': m.group(2).strip(), 'line': i})
# Tables and code blocks
table_count, table_lines = count_tables(content)
block_count, block_lines = count_fenced_blocks(content)
# Pattern matches
waste_matches = []
for pattern, category, label in WASTE_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
waste_matches.append({
'line': line_num,
'category': category,
'pattern': label,
'context': lines[line_num - 1].strip()[:100],
})
backref_matches = []
for pattern, label in BACKREF_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
backref_matches.append({
'line': line_num,
'pattern': label,
'context': lines[line_num - 1].strip()[:100],
})
# Config header
has_config_header = '{communication_language}' in content or '{document_output_language}' in content
# Progression condition
prog_keywords = ['progress', 'advance', 'move to', 'next stage',
'when complete', 'proceed to', 'transition', 'completion criteria']
has_progression = any(kw in content.lower() for kw in prog_keywords)
result = {
'file': rel_path,
'line_count': line_count,
'token_estimate': token_estimate,
'sections': sections,
'table_count': table_count,
'table_lines': table_lines,
'fenced_block_count': block_count,
'fenced_block_lines': block_lines,
'waste_patterns': waste_matches,
'back_references': backref_matches,
'has_config_header': has_config_header,
'has_progression': has_progression,
}
return result
def scan_prompt_metrics(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Extract metrics from all prompt-relevant files."""
files_data = []
# SKILL.md
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if skill_md.exists():
data = scan_file_patterns(skill_md, 'SKILL.md')
content = skill_md.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
data['overview_lines'] = extract_overview_size(content)
data['is_skill_md'] = True
files_data.append(data)
# Prompt files at skill root (non-SKILL.md .md files)
for f in sorted(skill_path.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name != 'SKILL.md':
data = scan_file_patterns(f, f.name)
data['is_skill_md'] = False
files_data.append(data)
# Resources (just sizes, for progressive disclosure assessment)
resources_dir = skill_path / 'resources'
resource_sizes = {}
if resources_dir.exists():
for f in sorted(resources_dir.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix in ('.md', '.json', '.yaml', '.yml'):
content = f.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
resource_sizes[f.name] = {
'lines': len(content.split('\n')),
'tokens': len(content) // 4,
}
# Aggregate stats
total_waste = sum(len(f['waste_patterns']) for f in files_data)
total_backrefs = sum(len(f['back_references']) for f in files_data)
total_tokens = sum(f['token_estimate'] for f in files_data)
prompts_with_config = sum(1 for f in files_data if not f.get('is_skill_md') and f['has_config_header'])
prompts_with_progression = sum(1 for f in files_data if not f.get('is_skill_md') and f['has_progression'])
total_prompts = sum(1 for f in files_data if not f.get('is_skill_md'))
skill_md_data = next((f for f in files_data if f.get('is_skill_md')), None)
return {
'scanner': 'prompt-craft-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-prompt-metrics.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': 'info',
'skill_md_summary': {
'line_count': skill_md_data['line_count'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'token_estimate': skill_md_data['token_estimate'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'overview_lines': skill_md_data.get('overview_lines', 0) if skill_md_data else 0,
'table_count': skill_md_data['table_count'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'table_lines': skill_md_data['table_lines'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'fenced_block_count': skill_md_data['fenced_block_count'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'fenced_block_lines': skill_md_data['fenced_block_lines'] if skill_md_data else 0,
'section_count': len(skill_md_data['sections']) if skill_md_data else 0,
},
'prompt_health': {
'total_prompts': total_prompts,
'prompts_with_config_header': prompts_with_config,
'prompts_with_progression': prompts_with_progression,
},
'aggregate': {
'total_files_scanned': len(files_data),
'total_token_estimate': total_tokens,
'total_waste_patterns': total_waste,
'total_back_references': total_backrefs,
},
'resource_sizes': resource_sizes,
'files': files_data,
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Extract prompt craft metrics for LLM scanner pre-pass',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_prompt_metrics(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic pre-pass for workflow integrity scanner.
Extracts structural metadata from a BMad skill that the LLM scanner
can use instead of reading all files itself. Covers:
- Frontmatter parsing and validation
- Section inventory (H2/H3 headers)
- Template artifact detection
- Stage file cross-referencing
- Stage numbering validation
- Config header detection in prompts
- Language/directness pattern grep
- On Exit / Exiting section detection (invalid)
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# Template artifacts that should NOT appear in finalized skills
TEMPLATE_ARTIFACTS = [
r'\{if-complex-workflow\}', r'\{/if-complex-workflow\}',
r'\{if-simple-workflow\}', r'\{/if-simple-workflow\}',
r'\{if-simple-utility\}', r'\{/if-simple-utility\}',
r'\{if-module\}', r'\{/if-module\}',
r'\{if-headless\}', r'\{/if-headless\}',
r'\{displayName\}', r'\{skillName\}',
]
# Runtime variables that ARE expected (not artifacts)
RUNTIME_VARS = {
'{user_name}', '{communication_language}', '{document_output_language}',
'{project-root}', '{output_folder}', '{planning_artifacts}',
}
# Directness anti-patterns
DIRECTNESS_PATTERNS = [
(r'\byou should\b', 'Suggestive "you should" — use direct imperative'),
(r'\bplease\b(?! note)', 'Polite "please" — use direct imperative'),
(r'\bhandle appropriately\b', 'Ambiguous "handle appropriately" — specify how'),
(r'\bwhen ready\b', 'Vague "when ready" — specify testable condition'),
]
# Invalid sections
INVALID_SECTIONS = [
(r'^##\s+On\s+Exit\b', 'On Exit section found — no exit hooks exist in the system, this will never run'),
(r'^##\s+Exiting\b', 'Exiting section found — no exit hooks exist in the system, this will never run'),
]
def parse_frontmatter(content: str) -> tuple[dict | None, list[dict]]:
"""Parse YAML frontmatter and validate."""
findings = []
fm_match = re.match(r'^---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n', content, re.DOTALL)
if not fm_match:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'No YAML frontmatter found',
})
return None, findings
try:
# Frontmatter is YAML-like key: value pairs — parse manually
fm = {}
for line in fm_match.group(1).strip().split('\n'):
line = line.strip()
if not line or line.startswith('#'):
continue
if ':' in line:
key, _, value = line.partition(':')
fm[key.strip()] = value.strip().strip('"').strip("'")
except Exception as e:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Invalid frontmatter: {e}',
})
return None, findings
if not isinstance(fm, dict):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Frontmatter is not a YAML mapping',
})
return None, findings
# name check
name = fm.get('name')
if not name:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Missing "name" field in frontmatter',
})
elif not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Name "{name}" is not kebab-case',
})
elif not name.startswith('bmad-'):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Name "{name}" does not follow bmad-* naming convention',
})
# description check
desc = fm.get('description')
if not desc:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Missing "description" field in frontmatter',
})
elif 'Use when' not in desc and 'use when' not in desc:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': 'Description missing "Use when..." trigger phrase',
})
# Extra fields check
allowed = {'name', 'description', 'menu-code'}
extra = set(fm.keys()) - allowed
if extra:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'frontmatter',
'issue': f'Extra frontmatter fields: {", ".join(sorted(extra))}',
})
return fm, findings
def extract_sections(content: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Extract all H2 headers with line numbers."""
sections = []
for i, line in enumerate(content.split('\n'), 1):
m = re.match(r'^(#{2,3})\s+(.+)$', line)
if m:
sections.append({
'level': len(m.group(1)),
'title': m.group(2).strip(),
'line': i,
})
return sections
def check_required_sections(sections: list[dict]) -> list[dict]:
"""Check for required and invalid sections."""
findings = []
h2_titles = [s['title'] for s in sections if s['level'] == 2]
if 'Overview' not in h2_titles:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'sections',
'issue': 'Missing ## Overview section',
})
if 'On Activation' not in h2_titles:
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'sections',
'issue': 'Missing ## On Activation section',
})
# Invalid sections
for s in sections:
if s['level'] == 2:
for pattern, message in INVALID_SECTIONS:
if re.match(pattern, f"## {s['title']}"):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': s['line'],
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'invalid-section',
'issue': message,
})
return findings
def find_template_artifacts(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Scan for orphaned template substitution artifacts."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
for pattern in TEMPLATE_ARTIFACTS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content):
matched = m.group()
if matched in RUNTIME_VARS:
continue
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': line_num,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'artifacts',
'issue': f'Orphaned template artifact: {matched}',
'fix': 'Resolve or remove this template conditional/placeholder',
})
return findings
def cross_reference_stages(skill_path: Path, skill_content: str) -> tuple[dict, list[dict]]:
"""Cross-reference stage files between SKILL.md and numbered prompt files at skill root."""
findings = []
# Get actual numbered prompt files at skill root (exclude SKILL.md)
actual_files = set()
for f in skill_path.iterdir():
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name != 'SKILL.md' and re.match(r'^\d+-', f.name):
actual_files.add(f.name)
# Find stage references in SKILL.md — look for both old prompts/ style and new root style
referenced = set()
# Match `prompts/XX-name.md` (legacy) or bare `XX-name.md` references
ref_pattern = re.compile(r'(?:prompts/)?(\d+-[^\s)`]+\.md)')
for m in ref_pattern.finditer(skill_content):
referenced.add(m.group(1))
# Missing files (referenced but don't exist)
missing = referenced - actual_files
for f in sorted(missing):
findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 0,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'missing-stage',
'issue': f'Referenced stage file does not exist: {f}',
})
# Orphaned files (exist but not referenced)
orphaned = actual_files - referenced
for f in sorted(orphaned):
findings.append({
'file': f, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'naming',
'issue': f'Stage file exists but not referenced in SKILL.md: {f}',
})
# Stage numbering check
numbered = []
for f in sorted(actual_files):
m = re.match(r'^(\d+)-(.+)\.md$', f)
if m:
numbered.append((int(m.group(1)), f))
if numbered:
numbered.sort()
nums = [n[0] for n in numbered]
expected = list(range(nums[0], nums[0] + len(nums)))
if nums != expected:
gaps = set(expected) - set(nums)
if gaps:
findings.append({
'file': skill_path.name, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'naming',
'issue': f'Stage numbering has gaps: missing {sorted(gaps)}',
})
stage_summary = {
'total_stages': len(actual_files),
'referenced': sorted(referenced),
'actual': sorted(actual_files),
'missing_stages': sorted(missing),
'orphaned_stages': sorted(orphaned),
}
return stage_summary, findings
def check_prompt_basics(skill_path: Path) -> tuple[list[dict], list[dict]]:
"""Check each prompt file for config header and progression conditions."""
findings = []
prompt_details = []
# Look for numbered prompt files at skill root
prompt_files = sorted(
f for f in skill_path.iterdir()
if f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name != 'SKILL.md' and re.match(r'^\d+-', f.name)
)
if not prompt_files:
return prompt_details, findings
for f in prompt_files:
content = f.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
rel_path = f.name
detail = {'file': f.name, 'has_config_header': False, 'has_progression': False}
# Config header check
if '{communication_language}' in content or '{document_output_language}' in content:
detail['has_config_header'] = True
else:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'config-header',
'issue': 'No config header with language variables found',
})
# Progression condition check (look for progression-related keywords near end)
lower = content.lower()
prog_keywords = ['progress', 'advance', 'move to', 'next stage', 'when complete',
'proceed to', 'transition', 'completion criteria']
if any(kw in lower for kw in prog_keywords):
detail['has_progression'] = True
else:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': len(content.split('\n')),
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'progression',
'issue': 'No progression condition keywords found',
})
# Directness checks
for pattern, message in DIRECTNESS_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': line_num,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'language',
'issue': message,
})
# Template artifacts
findings.extend(find_template_artifacts(f, rel_path))
prompt_details.append(detail)
return prompt_details, findings
def detect_workflow_type(skill_content: str, has_prompts: bool) -> str:
"""Detect workflow type from SKILL.md content."""
has_stage_refs = bool(re.search(r'(?:prompts/)?\d+-\S+\.md', skill_content))
has_routing = bool(re.search(r'(?i)(rout|stage|branch|path)', skill_content))
if has_stage_refs or (has_prompts and has_routing):
return 'complex'
elif re.search(r'(?m)^\d+\.\s', skill_content):
return 'simple-workflow'
else:
return 'simple-utility'
def scan_workflow_integrity(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Run all deterministic workflow integrity checks."""
all_findings = []
# Read SKILL.md
skill_md = skill_path / 'SKILL.md'
if not skill_md.exists():
return {
'scanner': 'workflow-integrity-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-workflow-integrity.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': 'fail',
'issues': [{'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': 1, 'severity': 'critical',
'category': 'missing-file', 'issue': 'SKILL.md does not exist'}],
'summary': {'total_issues': 1, 'by_severity': {'critical': 1, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}},
}
skill_content = skill_md.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# Frontmatter
frontmatter, fm_findings = parse_frontmatter(skill_content)
all_findings.extend(fm_findings)
# Sections
sections = extract_sections(skill_content)
section_findings = check_required_sections(sections)
all_findings.extend(section_findings)
# Template artifacts in SKILL.md
all_findings.extend(find_template_artifacts(skill_md, 'SKILL.md'))
# Directness checks in SKILL.md
for pattern, message in DIRECTNESS_PATTERNS:
for m in re.finditer(pattern, skill_content, re.IGNORECASE):
line_num = skill_content[:m.start()].count('\n') + 1
all_findings.append({
'file': 'SKILL.md', 'line': line_num,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'language',
'issue': message,
})
# Workflow type
has_prompts = any(
f.is_file() and f.suffix == '.md' and f.name != 'SKILL.md' and re.match(r'^\d+-', f.name)
for f in skill_path.iterdir()
)
workflow_type = detect_workflow_type(skill_content, has_prompts)
# Stage cross-reference
stage_summary, stage_findings = cross_reference_stages(skill_path, skill_content)
all_findings.extend(stage_findings)
# Prompt basics
prompt_details, prompt_findings = check_prompt_basics(skill_path)
all_findings.extend(prompt_findings)
# Manifest check
manifest_path = skill_path / 'bmad-manifest.json'
has_manifest = manifest_path.exists()
# Build severity summary
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
for f in all_findings:
sev = f['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
status = 'pass'
if by_severity['critical'] > 0:
status = 'fail'
elif by_severity['high'] > 0:
status = 'warning'
return {
'scanner': 'workflow-integrity-prepass',
'script': 'prepass-workflow-integrity.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': status,
'metadata': {
'frontmatter': frontmatter,
'sections': sections,
'workflow_type': workflow_type,
'has_manifest': has_manifest,
},
'stage_summary': stage_summary,
'prompt_details': prompt_details,
'issues': all_findings,
'summary': {
'total_issues': len(all_findings),
'by_severity': by_severity,
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Deterministic pre-pass for workflow integrity scanning',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_workflow_integrity(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0 if result['status'] == 'pass' else 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic path standards scanner for BMad skills.
Validates all .md files against BMad path conventions:
1. {project-root} only valid before /_bmad
2. Bare _bmad references must have {project-root} prefix
3. Config variables used directly (no double-prefix)
4. No ./ or ../ relative prefixes
5. No absolute paths
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import re
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# Patterns to detect
# {project-root} NOT followed by /_bmad
PROJECT_ROOT_NOT_BMAD_RE = re.compile(r'\{project-root\}/(?!_bmad)')
# Bare _bmad without {project-root} prefix — match _bmad at word boundary
# but not when preceded by {project-root}/
BARE_BMAD_RE = re.compile(r'(?<!\{project-root\}/)_bmad[/\s]')
# Absolute paths
ABSOLUTE_PATH_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(/(?:Users|home|opt|var|tmp|etc|usr)/\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
HOME_PATH_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(~/\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
# Relative prefixes
RELATIVE_DOT_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(\.\./\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
RELATIVE_DOTSLASH_RE = re.compile(r'(?:^|[\s"`\'(])(\./\S+)', re.MULTILINE)
# Fenced code block detection (to skip examples showing wrong patterns)
FENCE_RE = re.compile(r'^```', re.MULTILINE)
def is_in_fenced_block(content: str, pos: int) -> bool:
"""Check if a position is inside a fenced code block."""
fences = [m.start() for m in FENCE_RE.finditer(content[:pos])]
# Odd number of fences before pos means we're inside a block
return len(fences) % 2 == 1
def get_line_number(content: str, pos: int) -> int:
"""Get 1-based line number for a position in content."""
return content[:pos].count('\n') + 1
def scan_file(filepath: Path, skip_fenced: bool = True) -> list[dict]:
"""Scan a single file for path standard violations."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
rel_path = filepath.name
checks = [
(PROJECT_ROOT_NOT_BMAD_RE, 'project-root-not-bmad', 'critical',
'{project-root} used for non-_bmad path — only valid use is {project-root}/_bmad/...'),
(ABSOLUTE_PATH_RE, 'absolute-path', 'high',
'Absolute path found — not portable across machines'),
(HOME_PATH_RE, 'absolute-path', 'high',
'Home directory path (~/) found — environment-specific'),
(RELATIVE_DOT_RE, 'relative-prefix', 'medium',
'Parent directory reference (../) found — fragile, breaks with reorganization'),
(RELATIVE_DOTSLASH_RE, 'relative-prefix', 'medium',
'Relative prefix (./) found — breaks when execution directory changes'),
]
for pattern, category, severity, message in checks:
for match in pattern.finditer(content):
pos = match.start()
if skip_fenced and is_in_fenced_block(content, pos):
continue
line_num = get_line_number(content, pos)
line_content = content.split('\n')[line_num - 1].strip()
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': line_num,
'severity': severity,
'category': category,
'title': message,
'detail': line_content[:120],
'action': '',
})
# Bare _bmad check — more nuanced, need to avoid false positives
# inside {project-root}/_bmad which is correct
for match in BARE_BMAD_RE.finditer(content):
pos = match.start()
if skip_fenced and is_in_fenced_block(content, pos):
continue
# Check that this isn't part of {project-root}/_bmad
# The negative lookbehind handles this, but double-check
# the broader context
start = max(0, pos - 30)
before = content[start:pos]
if '{project-root}/' in before:
continue
line_num = get_line_number(content, pos)
line_content = content.split('\n')[line_num - 1].strip()
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': line_num,
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'bare-bmad',
'title': 'Bare _bmad reference without {project-root} prefix',
'detail': line_content[:120],
'action': '',
})
return findings
def scan_skill(skill_path: Path, skip_fenced: bool = True) -> dict:
"""Scan all .md files in a skill directory."""
all_findings = []
# Find all .md files
md_files = sorted(skill_path.rglob('*.md'))
if not md_files:
print(f"Warning: No .md files found in {skill_path}", file=sys.stderr)
files_scanned = []
for md_file in md_files:
rel = md_file.relative_to(skill_path)
files_scanned.append(str(rel))
file_findings = scan_file(md_file, skip_fenced)
for f in file_findings:
f['file'] = str(rel)
all_findings.extend(file_findings)
# Build summary
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
by_category = {
'project_root_not_bmad': 0,
'bare_bmad': 0,
'double_prefix': 0,
'absolute_path': 0,
'relative_prefix': 0,
}
for f in all_findings:
sev = f['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
cat = f['category'].replace('-', '_')
if cat in by_category:
by_category[cat] += 1
return {
'scanner': 'path-standards',
'script': 'scan-path-standards.py',
'version': '1.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'files_scanned': files_scanned,
'status': 'pass' if not all_findings else 'fail',
'findings': all_findings,
'assessments': {},
'summary': {
'total_findings': len(all_findings),
'by_severity': by_severity,
'by_category': by_category,
'assessment': 'Path standards scan complete',
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Scan BMad skill for path standard violations',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--include-fenced',
action='store_true',
help='Also check inside fenced code blocks (by default they are skipped)',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_skill(args.skill_path, skip_fenced=not args.include_fenced)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0 if result['status'] == 'pass' else 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Deterministic scripts scanner for BMad skills.
Validates scripts in a skill's scripts/ folder for:
- PEP 723 inline dependencies (Python)
- Shebang, set -e, portability (Shell)
- Version pinning for npx/uvx
- Agentic design: no input(), has argparse/--help, JSON output, exit codes
- Unit test existence
- Over-engineering signals (line count, simple-op imports)
- External lint: ruff (Python), shellcheck (Bash), biome (JS/TS)
"""
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.9"
# ///
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import ast
import json
import re
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from pathlib import Path
# =============================================================================
# External Linter Integration
# =============================================================================
def _run_command(cmd: list[str], timeout: int = 30) -> tuple[int, str, str]:
"""Run a command and return (returncode, stdout, stderr)."""
try:
result = subprocess.run(
cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=timeout,
)
return result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr
except FileNotFoundError:
return -1, '', f'Command not found: {cmd[0]}'
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
return -2, '', f'Command timed out after {timeout}s: {" ".join(cmd)}'
def _find_uv() -> str | None:
"""Find uv binary on PATH."""
return shutil.which('uv')
def _find_npx() -> str | None:
"""Find npx binary on PATH."""
return shutil.which('npx')
def lint_python_ruff(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Run ruff on a Python file via uv. Returns lint findings."""
uv = _find_uv()
if not uv:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': 'uv not found on PATH — cannot run ruff for Python linting',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Install uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/',
}]
rc, stdout, stderr = _run_command([
uv, 'run', 'ruff', 'check', '--output-format', 'json', str(filepath),
])
if rc == -1:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': f'Failed to run ruff via uv: {stderr.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Ensure uv can install and run ruff: uv run ruff --version',
}]
if rc == -2:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'ruff timed out on {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
# ruff outputs JSON array on stdout (even on rc=1 when issues found)
findings = []
try:
issues = json.loads(stdout) if stdout.strip() else []
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'Failed to parse ruff output for {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
for issue in issues:
fix_msg = issue.get('fix', {}).get('message', '') if issue.get('fix') else ''
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': issue.get('location', {}).get('row', 0),
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'lint',
'title': f'[{issue.get("code", "?")}] {issue.get("message", "")}',
'detail': '',
'action': fix_msg or f'See https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/{issue.get("code", "")}',
})
return findings
def lint_shell_shellcheck(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Run shellcheck on a shell script via uv. Returns lint findings."""
uv = _find_uv()
if not uv:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': 'uv not found on PATH — cannot run shellcheck for shell linting',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Install uv: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/',
}]
rc, stdout, stderr = _run_command([
uv, 'run', '--with', 'shellcheck-py',
'shellcheck', '--format', 'json', str(filepath),
])
if rc == -1:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': f'Failed to run shellcheck via uv: {stderr.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Ensure uv can install shellcheck-py: uv run --with shellcheck-py shellcheck --version',
}]
if rc == -2:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'shellcheck timed out on {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
findings = []
# shellcheck outputs JSON on stdout (rc=1 when issues found)
raw = stdout.strip() or stderr.strip()
try:
issues = json.loads(raw) if raw else []
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'Failed to parse shellcheck output for {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
# Map shellcheck levels to our severity
level_map = {'error': 'high', 'warning': 'high', 'info': 'high', 'style': 'medium'}
for issue in issues:
sc_code = issue.get('code', '')
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': issue.get('line', 0),
'severity': level_map.get(issue.get('level', ''), 'high'),
'category': 'lint',
'title': f'[SC{sc_code}] {issue.get("message", "")}',
'detail': '',
'action': f'See https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC{sc_code}',
})
return findings
def lint_node_biome(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Run biome on a JS/TS file via npx. Returns lint findings."""
npx = _find_npx()
if not npx:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': 'npx not found on PATH — cannot run biome for JS/TS linting',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Install Node.js 20+: https://nodejs.org/',
}]
rc, stdout, stderr = _run_command([
npx, '--yes', '@biomejs/biome', 'lint', '--reporter', 'json', str(filepath),
], timeout=60)
if rc == -1:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'lint-setup',
'title': f'Failed to run biome via npx: {stderr.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Ensure npx can run biome: npx @biomejs/biome --version',
}]
if rc == -2:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'biome timed out on {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
findings = []
# biome outputs JSON on stdout
raw = stdout.strip()
try:
result = json.loads(raw) if raw else {}
except json.JSONDecodeError:
return [{
'file': rel_path, 'line': 0,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'lint',
'title': f'Failed to parse biome output for {rel_path}',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}]
for diag in result.get('diagnostics', []):
loc = diag.get('location', {})
start = loc.get('start', {})
findings.append({
'file': rel_path,
'line': start.get('line', 0),
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'lint',
'title': f'[{diag.get("category", "?")}] {diag.get("message", "")}',
'detail': '',
'action': diag.get('advices', [{}])[0].get('message', '') if diag.get('advices') else '',
})
return findings
# =============================================================================
# BMad Pattern Checks (Existing)
# =============================================================================
def scan_python_script(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Check a Python script for standards compliance."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# PEP 723 check
if '# /// script' not in content:
# Only flag if the script has imports (not a trivial script)
if 'import ' in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': 'No PEP 723 inline dependency block (# /// script)',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add PEP 723 block with requires-python and dependencies',
})
else:
# Check requires-python is present
if 'requires-python' not in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': 'PEP 723 block exists but missing requires-python constraint',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add requires-python = ">=3.9" or appropriate version',
})
# requirements.txt reference
if 'requirements.txt' in content or 'pip install' in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': 'References requirements.txt or pip install — use PEP 723 inline deps',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Replace with PEP 723 inline dependency block',
})
# Agentic design checks via AST
try:
tree = ast.parse(content)
except SyntaxError:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'error-handling',
'title': 'Python syntax error — script cannot be parsed',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
})
return findings
has_argparse = False
has_json_dumps = False
has_sys_exit = False
imports = set()
for node in ast.walk(tree):
# Track imports
if isinstance(node, ast.Import):
for alias in node.names:
imports.add(alias.name)
elif isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom):
if node.module:
imports.add(node.module)
# input() calls
if isinstance(node, ast.Call):
func = node.func
if isinstance(func, ast.Name) and func.id == 'input':
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': node.lineno,
'severity': 'critical', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'input() call found — blocks in non-interactive agent execution',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use argparse with required flags instead of interactive prompts',
})
# json.dumps
if isinstance(func, ast.Attribute) and func.attr == 'dumps':
has_json_dumps = True
# sys.exit
if isinstance(func, ast.Attribute) and func.attr == 'exit':
has_sys_exit = True
if isinstance(func, ast.Name) and func.id == 'exit':
has_sys_exit = True
# argparse
if isinstance(node, ast.Attribute) and node.attr == 'ArgumentParser':
has_argparse = True
if not has_argparse and line_count > 20:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'No argparse found — script lacks --help self-documentation',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add argparse with description and argument help text',
})
if not has_json_dumps and line_count > 20:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'No json.dumps found — output may not be structured JSON',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use json.dumps for structured output parseable by workflows',
})
if not has_sys_exit and line_count > 20:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'agentic-design',
'title': 'No sys.exit() calls — may not return meaningful exit codes',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Return 0=success, 1=fail, 2=error via sys.exit()',
})
# Over-engineering: simple file ops in Python
simple_op_imports = {'shutil', 'glob', 'fnmatch'}
over_eng = imports & simple_op_imports
if over_eng and line_count < 30:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Short script ({line_count} lines) imports {", ".join(over_eng)} — may be simpler as bash',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider if cp/mv/find shell commands would suffice',
})
# Very short script
if line_count < 5:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Script is only {line_count} lines — could be an inline command',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider inlining this command directly in the prompt',
})
return findings
def scan_shell_script(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Check a shell script for standards compliance."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# Shebang
if not lines[0].startswith('#!'):
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'high', 'category': 'portability',
'title': 'Missing shebang line',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add #!/usr/bin/env bash or #!/usr/bin/env sh',
})
elif '/usr/bin/env' not in lines[0]:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'Shebang uses hardcoded path: {lines[0].strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use #!/usr/bin/env bash for cross-platform compatibility',
})
# set -e
if 'set -e' not in content and 'set -euo' not in content:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'error-handling',
'title': 'Missing set -e — errors will be silently ignored',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Add set -e (or set -euo pipefail) near the top',
})
# Hardcoded interpreter paths
hardcoded_re = re.compile(r'/usr/bin/(python|ruby|node|perl)\b')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
if hardcoded_re.search(line):
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'Hardcoded interpreter path: {line.strip()}',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use /usr/bin/env or PATH-based lookup',
})
# GNU-only tools
gnu_re = re.compile(r'\b(gsed|gawk|ggrep|gfind)\b')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = gnu_re.search(line)
if m:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'GNU-only tool: {m.group()} — not available on all platforms',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Use POSIX-compatible equivalent',
})
# Unquoted variables (basic check)
unquoted_re = re.compile(r'(?<!")\$\w+(?!")')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
if line.strip().startswith('#'):
continue
for m in unquoted_re.finditer(line):
# Skip inside double-quoted strings (rough heuristic)
before = line[:m.start()]
if before.count('"') % 2 == 1:
continue
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'low', 'category': 'portability',
'title': f'Potentially unquoted variable: {m.group()} — breaks with spaces in paths',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Use "{m.group()}" with double quotes',
})
# npx/uvx without version pinning
no_pin_re = re.compile(r'\b(npx|uvx)\s+([a-zA-Z][\w-]+)(?!\S*@)')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
if line.strip().startswith('#'):
continue
m = no_pin_re.search(line)
if m:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': f'{m.group(1)} {m.group(2)} without version pinning',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Pin version: {m.group(1)} {m.group(2)}@<version>',
})
# Very short script
if line_count < 5:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Script is only {line_count} lines — could be an inline command',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider inlining this command directly in the prompt',
})
return findings
def scan_node_script(filepath: Path, rel_path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Check a JS/TS script for standards compliance."""
findings = []
content = filepath.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
lines = content.split('\n')
line_count = len(lines)
# npx/uvx without version pinning
no_pin = re.compile(r'\b(npx|uvx)\s+([a-zA-Z][\w-]+)(?!\S*@)')
for i, line in enumerate(lines, 1):
m = no_pin.search(line)
if m:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': i,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'dependencies',
'title': f'{m.group(1)} {m.group(2)} without version pinning',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Pin version: {m.group(1)} {m.group(2)}@<version>',
})
# Very short script
if line_count < 5:
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'over-engineered',
'title': f'Script is only {line_count} lines — could be an inline command',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Consider inlining this command directly in the prompt',
})
return findings
# =============================================================================
# Main Scanner
# =============================================================================
def scan_skill_scripts(skill_path: Path) -> dict:
"""Scan all scripts in a skill directory."""
scripts_dir = skill_path / 'scripts'
all_findings = []
lint_findings = []
script_inventory = {'python': [], 'shell': [], 'node': [], 'other': []}
missing_tests = []
if not scripts_dir.exists():
return {
'scanner': 'scripts',
'script': 'scan-scripts.py',
'version': '2.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': 'pass',
'findings': [{
'file': 'scripts/',
'severity': 'info',
'category': 'none',
'title': 'No scripts/ directory found — nothing to scan',
'detail': '',
'action': '',
}],
'assessments': {
'lint_summary': {
'tools_used': [],
'files_linted': 0,
'lint_issues': 0,
},
'script_summary': {
'total_scripts': 0,
'by_type': script_inventory,
'missing_tests': [],
},
},
'summary': {
'total_findings': 0,
'by_severity': {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0},
'assessment': '',
},
}
# Find all script files (exclude tests/ and __pycache__)
script_files = []
for f in sorted(scripts_dir.iterdir()):
if f.is_file() and f.suffix in ('.py', '.sh', '.bash', '.js', '.ts', '.mjs'):
script_files.append(f)
tests_dir = scripts_dir / 'tests'
lint_tools_used = set()
for script_file in script_files:
rel_path = f'scripts/{script_file.name}'
ext = script_file.suffix
if ext == '.py':
script_inventory['python'].append(script_file.name)
findings = scan_python_script(script_file, rel_path)
lf = lint_python_ruff(script_file, rel_path)
lint_findings.extend(lf)
if lf and not any(f['category'] == 'lint-setup' for f in lf):
lint_tools_used.add('ruff')
elif ext in ('.sh', '.bash'):
script_inventory['shell'].append(script_file.name)
findings = scan_shell_script(script_file, rel_path)
lf = lint_shell_shellcheck(script_file, rel_path)
lint_findings.extend(lf)
if lf and not any(f['category'] == 'lint-setup' for f in lf):
lint_tools_used.add('shellcheck')
elif ext in ('.js', '.ts', '.mjs'):
script_inventory['node'].append(script_file.name)
findings = scan_node_script(script_file, rel_path)
lf = lint_node_biome(script_file, rel_path)
lint_findings.extend(lf)
if lf and not any(f['category'] == 'lint-setup' for f in lf):
lint_tools_used.add('biome')
else:
script_inventory['other'].append(script_file.name)
findings = []
# Check for unit tests
if tests_dir.exists():
stem = script_file.stem
test_patterns = [
f'test_{stem}{ext}', f'test-{stem}{ext}',
f'{stem}_test{ext}', f'{stem}-test{ext}',
f'test_{stem}.py', f'test-{stem}.py',
]
has_test = any((tests_dir / t).exists() for t in test_patterns)
else:
has_test = False
if not has_test:
missing_tests.append(script_file.name)
findings.append({
'file': rel_path, 'line': 1,
'severity': 'medium', 'category': 'tests',
'title': f'No unit test found for {script_file.name}',
'detail': '',
'action': f'Create scripts/tests/test-{script_file.stem}{ext} with test cases',
})
all_findings.extend(findings)
# Check if tests/ directory exists at all
if script_files and not tests_dir.exists():
all_findings.append({
'file': 'scripts/tests/',
'line': 0,
'severity': 'high',
'category': 'tests',
'title': 'scripts/tests/ directory does not exist — no unit tests',
'detail': '',
'action': 'Create scripts/tests/ with test files for each script',
})
# Merge lint findings into all findings
all_findings.extend(lint_findings)
# Build summary
by_severity = {'critical': 0, 'high': 0, 'medium': 0, 'low': 0}
by_category: dict[str, int] = {}
for f in all_findings:
sev = f['severity']
if sev in by_severity:
by_severity[sev] += 1
cat = f['category']
by_category[cat] = by_category.get(cat, 0) + 1
total_scripts = sum(len(v) for v in script_inventory.values())
status = 'pass'
if by_severity['critical'] > 0:
status = 'fail'
elif by_severity['high'] > 0:
status = 'warning'
elif total_scripts == 0:
status = 'pass'
lint_issue_count = sum(1 for f in lint_findings if f['category'] == 'lint')
return {
'scanner': 'scripts',
'script': 'scan-scripts.py',
'version': '2.0.0',
'skill_path': str(skill_path),
'timestamp': datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
'status': status,
'findings': all_findings,
'assessments': {
'lint_summary': {
'tools_used': sorted(lint_tools_used),
'files_linted': total_scripts,
'lint_issues': lint_issue_count,
},
'script_summary': {
'total_scripts': total_scripts,
'by_type': {k: len(v) for k, v in script_inventory.items()},
'scripts': {k: v for k, v in script_inventory.items() if v},
'missing_tests': missing_tests,
},
},
'summary': {
'total_findings': len(all_findings),
'by_severity': by_severity,
'by_category': by_category,
'assessment': '',
},
}
def main() -> int:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description='Scan BMad skill scripts for quality, portability, agentic design, and lint issues',
)
parser.add_argument(
'skill_path',
type=Path,
help='Path to the skill directory to scan',
)
parser.add_argument(
'--output', '-o',
type=Path,
help='Write JSON output to file instead of stdout',
)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.skill_path.is_dir():
print(f"Error: {args.skill_path} is not a directory", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
result = scan_skill_scripts(args.skill_path)
output = json.dumps(result, indent=2)
if args.output:
args.output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
args.output.write_text(output)
print(f"Results written to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(output)
return 0 if result['status'] == 'pass' else 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())