bmad

bmad is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 207 tokens per session (2,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-delivery process that turns a person's request into a written contract covering the reason, capabilities, limits, exclusions, and success signal. It then guides bounded implementation, review, failure handling, and acceptance checks for work done by people or agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feature requests, bug fixes, delegated builds, or multi-agent projects that need clarified intent, resumable records, scoped implementation, review triage, and observable acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity by preserving decisions and context in durable artifacts instead of leaving them only in conversation. It also limits autonomous work when the requested change is unclear or unsafe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it for feature requests, bug fixes, delegated builds, or multi-agent projects that need clarified intent, resumable records, scoped implementation, review triage, and observable acceptance criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/bmad
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add magnus919/agent-skills --skill bmad
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin bmad/plugin install bmad after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 207 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,299 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • low Excessive Agency · line 125
    Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.
    Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00207 $0.02299
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.01149
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00230

Measured 10d ago against content hash 343356f60383, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check-spec.py, scripts/test_check_spec.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

bmad/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMad: Intent-to-Delivery Control-Plane Protocol

BMad is a software-delivery method built on one idea: human intent should be progressively clarified, recorded, reviewed, and handed to agents as durable context rather than improvised in chat. This skill turns that method into a protocol any agent harness can follow — no official BMad installer required.

The loop: classify the request → compress intent into a contract → route to the smallest safe path → implement one bounded unit → review as triage → route failure to the layer where ambiguity entered → gate autonomy on observable acceptance → learn from completed work.

When to use this skill

Load when a change request, feature, bug report, delegated build, or multi-agent epic needs:

  • intent capture before implementation — a contract, not a vibe;
  • a decision about how much ceremony the work deserves;
  • durable artifacts so work is resumable across sessions or agents;
  • review that triages findings instead of enumerating noise;
  • autonomy that stops safely when the boundary is unsafe.

Work classification (smallest safe path)

Class Shape Process
Direct clear goal, local change, established patterns, small blast radius implement immediately after minimal clarification
Bounded coherent change needing a short contract and plan intent contract → plan → implement → review
Initiative cross-component, multi-story, high-risk, or strategically uncertain analysis → planning → solutioning → implementation → learning

Load references/classification.md for the decision table, the one-question rule, and stop conditions.

The intent contract (five fields)

For bounded or initiative work, establish a contract before implementation:

  1. Why — the outcome and why it matters.
  2. Capabilities — what the system must be able to do.
  3. Constraints — technical, operational, legal, security, privacy, time, cost, organizational boundaries.
  4. Non-goals — what is explicitly out of scope.
  5. Success signal — how we will know the result works and is acceptable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 199 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A 343356f60383

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bmad is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 2,299 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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