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BMAD Method

BMAD-METHOD (“Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development”) is a multi-agent framework with Analyst, PM, Architect, and Dev personas that take you from idea to implementation. Install it with npx bmad-method install.

Its planning agents write markdown to docs/ at your repo root, with a clean handoff at each phase:

  • docs/prd.md after the PM agent drafts the product requirements
  • docs/architecture.md after the Architect agent designs the system
  • docs/stories/*.story.md for the sharded implementation stories

Each of those is a pause point: review it before the next agent picks up the work.

Manual

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After the PM agent writes the PRD, open it for review:

/planbridge-open docs/prd.md

Comment inline, and BMAD revises the PRD before the Architect agent starts. Do the same for the architecture doc and each story:

/planbridge-open docs/architecture.md
/planbridge-open docs/stories/0.1.story.md

Automatic

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To review each planning doc without asking, append a snippet to your global agent instructions:

Terminal window
echo '
## BMAD + PlanBridge


When a BMAD agent writes a planning doc under `docs/` (`prd.md`, `architecture.md`, a file in `docs/stories/`), run `/planbridge-open` on it instead of asking me to review it as text. Treat the returned annotations as my review feedback and revise before the next agent or phase begins.
' >> ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

Notes

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Activate BMAD’s agents and workflows the way its docs describe; the exact agent and command names depend on your install and version. PlanBridge plugs in wherever a phase writes a markdown doc under docs/.