Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide --skill bmad-specgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ideWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-spec)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-spec"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-spec/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-spec"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-spec.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00076 | $0.03793 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.01517 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00759 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00379 |
Grade A, and why
bmad-spec scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
BMad Spec
Overview
Canonical transformer for the BMad spec-kernel ecosystem. Takes any intent input — vague idea, brain dump, PRD, GDD, RFC, brief, Slack thread, customer email, meeting transcript, mockups, mixed multi-source — and produces spec-{slug}.md carrying the five-field kernel (Why, Capabilities, Constraints, Non-goals, Success signal) plus companion files for load-bearing content that does not fit or would bloat the kernel with expansive line-item detail. Together they are the machine contract every downstream BMad skill consumes.
Multiple skills may call to update the same spec over time.
Conventions
- Bare paths (e.g.
assets/spec-template.md) resolve from the skill root. {skill-root}is this skill's install dir;{project-root}is the nearest folder containing_bmad/, starting at the working dir and moving up through its parents.{workflow.<name>}resolves to fields incustomize.toml.
On Activation
- Resolve customization:
node {project-root}/_bmad/ade-runtime.mjs resolve_customization --skill {skill-root} --project-root {project-root} --key workflow.- Script not found: BMad is not set up here. Offer to run the
bmadskill's setup, installingbmadfirst if you do not have it (npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad), then run the command again. - Any other failure: read
{skill-root}/customize.tomldirectly.
- Script not found: BMad is not set up here. Offer to run the
- Run
{workflow.activation_steps_prepend}. Treat{workflow.persistent_facts}as foundational context (file:entries are loaded). - Resolve config:
node {project-root}/_bmad/ade-runtime.mjs resolve_config --project-root {project-root} --key core.output_folder --key core.active_initiative.{date}is the current system datetime.- Script not found, or no
output_folder: BMad is not set up here. Offer to run thebmadskill's setup, installingbmadfirst if you do not have it (npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad), then run the command again. - No
active_initiative: hand off to thebmadskill to set or create one, then run the command again and continue. Headless: write loose.
- Script not found, or no
- Detect mode. Headless when any of: no TTY, programmatic caller (another skill or non-interactive runner), or the first message pre-supplies all inputs and asks for an artifact path back. Interactive otherwise. In interactive mode, greet the user and mention that
bmad-party-modeandbmad-advanced-elicitationare available for deeper exploration on any field.
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- today First seen · 158 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 5f3dc3553781
bmad-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide (85 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 3,793 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-26.
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