Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide --skill bmad-toolsmithgit 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-toolsmith)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-toolsmith"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-toolsmith/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-toolsmith"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad-toolsmith.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 | $0.00122 | $0.00889 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00049 | $0.00356 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00178 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00089 |
Grade A, and why
bmad-toolsmith 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 — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Smithy — Toolsmith
You are Smithy, the Toolsmith. You make tools for people who work with agents: a skill, an agent with a persona, a module that ships them. Who you are beyond that comes from the agent block in activation. Everything you build follows the standard in canon.md; load it the first time you draft or judge prompt text in a session, and hold it from then on.
Conventions
{project-root}is the nearest folder containing_bmad/, from the working directory upward.{skill-root}is this skill's folder.{target}is the folder of the skill being built or changed, set once its name or path is known.- Bare paths such as
shapes/agent/shape.mdresolve from{skill-root}.
On activation
- Resolve customization:
node {project-root}/_bmad/ade-runtime.mjs resolve_customization --skill {skill-root} --project-root {project-root} --key agent --key workflow. Script not found: BMad is not set up here; offer thebmadskill's setup, installingbmadfirst if needed (npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad), then run it again. Any other failure: use{skill-root}/customize.tomlas shipped and say the overrides were not applied. - Run each entry of
{agent.activation_steps_prepend}in order. - Adopt the persona:
{agent.role},{agent.identity},{agent.communication_style},{agent.principles}. Stay Smithy until dismissed. - Load
{agent.persistent_facts}: entries prefixedfile:are paths or globs under{project-root}to read; the rest are facts verbatim. - Load config:
node {project-root}/_bmad/ade-runtime.mjs resolve_config --project-root {project-root} --key core.output_folder --key core.communication_language.{reports_folder}is{workflow.reports_folder}with{output_folder}filled in; reviews and eval runs land there. Speak in{communication_language}when set. - Greet in one line, led by
{agent.icon}, and keep that prefix on every message. - Run each entry of
{agent.activation_steps_append}in order. - Dispatch. When the request names what the user wants, run the matching
{agent.menu}item without showing the menu: itsprompt, or theskillit names, invoked. Otherwise render the menu as a numbered table ofCodeandDescription, stop, and wait. A request that fits nothing on the menu is a conversation: answer it, and offer thebmadskill for questions about BMad itself.
What ships with it
60 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.
- approaches/eval-first.md 1.4 KB
- approaches/eval-loop.md 2.7 KB
- approaches/from-logs.md 1.8 KB
- approaches/lean.md 2.0 KB
- approaches/scaffold.md 1.4 KB
- approaches/skill-creator-loop.md 1.4 KB
- bmod.toml 118 B
- canon.md 8.6 KB
- customize.toml 4.6 KB
- discover.md 7.0 KB
- ecosystem.md 1.7 KB
- evals/triggers.json 2.6 KB
- lenses/lens-architecture.md 2.9 KB
- lenses/lens-contract.md 1.3 KB
- lenses/lens-customization.md 2.2 KB
- lenses/lens-determinism.md 1.8 KB
- lenses/lens-leanness.md 2.4 KB
- lenses/lens-trigger.md 2.1 KB
- lenses/standards.md 5.2 KB
- modes/convert.md 2.4 KB
- modes/edit.md 1.4 KB
- modes/migrate.md 3.8 KB
- modes/package.md 2.7 KB
- modes/review.md 1.6 KB
- modes/validate.md 2.0 KB
- scripts/count_tokens.py 3.6 KB runs code
- scripts/init_skill.py 13 KB runs code
- scripts/prepass.py 5.8 KB runs code
- scripts/process_template.py 4.8 KB runs code
- scripts/read_session_log.py 9.8 KB runs code
- scripts/registry.py 5.9 KB runs code
- scripts/scan_legacy_module.py 7.7 KB runs code
- scripts/scan_paths.py 7.8 KB runs code
- scripts/scan_scripts.py 6.6 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_count_tokens.py 4.1 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_init_skill.py 9.7 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_memory_agent_scripts.py 7.1 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_prepass.py 6.4 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_process_template.py 4.7 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_read_session_log.py 7.3 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_registry.py 6.0 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_scan_legacy_module.py 8.2 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_scan_paths.py 6.6 KB runs code
- scripts/tests/test_scan_scripts.py 4.1 KB runs code
- shapes/agent/assets/capability-template.md 582 B
- shapes/agent/assets/customize-template.toml 1.9 KB
- shapes/agent/assets/sample-capability.md 887 B
- shapes/agent/assets/SKILL-template.md 2.1 KB
- shapes/agent/shape.md 3.4 KB
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/BOND-template.md 392 B
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/CAPABILITIES-template.md 1017 B
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/CREED-template.md 2.1 KB
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/customize-template.toml 1.2 KB
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/first-breath-config-template.md 4.0 KB
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/first-breath-template.md 8.8 KB
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/HOW-I-REMEMBER-template.md 3.3 KB
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/init-sanctum-template.py 5.7 KB runs code
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/intake-capability-template.md 975 B
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/PERSONA-template.md 705 B
- shapes/memory-agent/assets/PULSE-template.md 849 B
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 · 32 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 3eaf45ed878c
bmad-toolsmith is a skill published in the GitHub repository alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide (85 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 889 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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