BMAD Method

BMAD Method is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daffy0208/ai-dev-standards. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,683 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method that connects a product’s business model—how it earns and spends money—with its technical architecture, the structure of its software and infrastructure. It is intended to keep technical choices aligned with long-term business needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a product, redesigning its architecture, moving beyond an MVP, evaluating build-versus-buy choices, or changing a revenue model.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid building an architecture that is too expensive, difficult to scale, or poorly matched to how the product makes money. It brings business effects into decisions about building, buying, and changing systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/bmad-method
Any agent
npx skills add daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill bmad-method
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards

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Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.02683
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01341
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00268

Measured 5d ago against content hash b3a8f0ca5046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

BMAD Method 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 5d ago.

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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.

skills/bmad-method/SKILL.md · 437 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 437 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMAD Method (Business Model and Architecture Design)

Overview

The BMAD Method bridges business strategy and technical architecture. It ensures your technical decisions support long-term business sustainability, not just immediate feature delivery.

Core Insight: Your architecture IS your business model in code form.

When to Use This Skill

Use BMAD when:

  • Starting a new product or major architectural redesign
  • Technical decisions have direct revenue/cost implications
  • Scaling challenges intersect with business model constraints
  • Evaluating build vs. buy for core capabilities
  • Transitioning from MVP to sustainable growth
  • Business model changes require architectural shifts

Key Capabilities

  • Map business model to technical architecture decisions
  • Identify architectural implications of revenue models
  • Design for cost sustainability at scale
  • Align technology investments with business value
  • Evaluate infrastructure costs vs. revenue potential
  • Plan architecture evolution alongside business growth

Workflow

Step 1: Business Model Analysis

Understand the Revenue Engine:

  • How does money flow? (One-time, subscription, usage-based, marketplace, advertising)
  • What's the unit economics? (CAC, LTV, gross margin, payback period)
  • What are the scale expectations? (10 users? 10k? 10M?)
  • What's the competitive moat? (Network effects, data, tech, brand)

Key Questions:

  • Is this B2B or B2C?
  • What's the pricing model?
  • What drives costs? (Infrastructure, support, sales, dev)
  • What's the target gross margin?

Step 2: Architecture Alignment

Map Business Model to Architecture:

Subscription SaaS (B2B):

  • Multi-tenancy architecture
  • Pay-as-you-grow infrastructure (starts cheap)
  • Enterprise features (SSO, RBAC, audit logs)
  • 99.9%+ uptime SLA requirements
  • Data isolation and security compliance

Usage-Based (API/Platform):

  • Serverless/metered infrastructure
  • Rate limiting and quota management
  • Detailed usage tracking and billing
  • Developer experience (docs, SDKs)
  • Predictable per-request costs

Read the full file on GitHub · 437 lines

Files

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 5d ago First seen · 437 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A b3a8f0ca5046

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BMAD Method is a skill published in the GitHub repository daffy0208/ai-dev-standards (36 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,683 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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