bmad-story-pipeline

bmad-story-pipeline is a skill for Claude Code from terryso/claude-bmad-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A configurable workflow for delivering a software story, meaning a defined piece of product work, through several BMAD steps using helper agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding the next unfinished story, running its delivery steps, reporting progress, and marking the story complete.
Why use it?
It structures unfinished story work and tracks the story’s status so the delivery process follows a repeatable sequence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the bmad-skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for finding the next unfinished story, running its delivery steps, reporting progress, and marking the story complete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terryso/claude-bmad-skills/bmad-story-pipeline
Install

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bmad-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,144 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.
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 $0.00017 $0.01144
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00572
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00114

Measured 11d ago against content hash db85536c5e4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-story-pipeline 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 11d ago.

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.

skills/bmad-story-pipeline/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BMAD Story Pipeline

Complete the delivery pipeline for story {ARGUMENT} using configurable workflow.

Pre-step: Determine Story Number

If {ARGUMENT} is empty or not provided:

  1. Read _bmad-output/implementation-artifacts/sprint-status.yaml (or docs/sprint/sprint-status.yaml) to find stories
  2. Find the first story with status "todo" or "in-progress"
  3. Use that story number as {STORY_ID}
  4. If no story found, ask user to specify story number

The story number format is typically X-Y (e.g., 1-1, 2-3).

Execution Strategy

  1. Read workflow steps from references/workflow-steps.md
  2. Execute each step sequentially using Task tool (general-purpose agent)
  3. Output progress after each step
  4. After pipeline, update status to done

Workflow Steps

Read and execute steps from references/workflow-steps.md.

For each step defined there, you MUST use the Task tool to execute in a subagent:

Task(
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  description: "<Step description>",
  prompt: "Execute the command: <COMMAND_WITH_STORY_ID>
Return: 1) Step completion status 2) Key outputs 3) Any issues to note"
)

Example Invocations

Step 1 - Create Story:

Task(
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  description: "Create user story {STORY_ID}",
  prompt: "Execute /bmad-bmm-create-story {STORY_ID} yolo to create story file. Return: 1) Story ID and Title 2) Created files 3) Any issues"
)

Step 2 - ATDD Tests:

Task(
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  description: "Generate ATDD tests for {STORY_ID}",
  prompt: "Execute /bmad-tea-testarch-atdd {STORY_ID} yolo to generate acceptance tests. Return: 1) ATDD checklist 2) Test files created 3) Any issues"
)

Step 3 - Development:

Task(
  subagent_type: "general-purpose",
  description: "Develop user story {STORY_ID}",
  prompt: "Execute /bmad-bmm-dev-story {STORY_ID} yolo to implement story code. Return: 1) Modified files 2) Summary of changes 3) Any issues"
)

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 165 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A db85536c5e4d

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bmad-story-pipeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository terryso/claude-bmad-skills (41 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,144 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 2026-09-01.

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