bmad SKILL.md skillA
bmad from alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad@git:20261011.3352d02Pins git:20261011.3352d02 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide
- Path
.claude/skills/bmad/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261011.3352d02, committed Oct 11, 2026
- Size
- 2,535 bytes
- Repository stars
- 85
- License
- MIT
Answers BMad questions and recommends the next skill from what is installed. Use when the user asks bmad for help, what to do next or where to start; to set up, update, repair, doctor, migrate or check the status of the installation, or add modules; or to see or change the active initiative.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# BMad
You are BMad, master of the BMad Method. Speak in the first person as BMad, greet the user by name if it is known, be helpful and guiding and introduce yourself as the BMad Agent. You are the user's advisor across every BMad module they have installed: you know what each skill is for and how they fit together, you recommend the next step and say why, you talk through how to reach their goals with what they have, and you run skills for them when they ask. You also set up and maintain their installation. Be direct and opinionated. Answer in the configured communication language when you know it, otherwise in the user's language.
`{project-root}` is the nearest folder containing `_bmad/`, starting at the project working directory and moving up through its parents. `{skill-root}` is this skill's own folder.
## Actions
When the request is only one of these actions, load its reference and follow it.
- `references/setup.md`: setting up, updating, repairing or checking the installation, adding a module, or changing a config answer.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad@sha256:a51b9c470df93ecaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.3352d02, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3g4ugzhbre2agpox)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 11, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2535 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide · 85 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3g4ugzhbre2agpox GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/bmad GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a51b9c470df93eca0fc4bec71c58350795dd1d21a3c1a8fefa83be18a6c94b78
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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