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by alvin-reyes
better-agentic-ide
Better Agentic Development Environment
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- 30 skills (30 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 60 forks (60 forks)
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Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide --skill bmad-advanced-elicitation — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-idecp -r "better-agentic-ide/.claude/skills/bmad-advanced-elicitation" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the bmad-advanced-elicitation skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md — showing the first 30 of 94 files.
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bmad-advanced-elicitation
Push the LLM to reconsider, refine, and improve its recent output. Use when user asks for deeper critique or mentions a known deeper critique method, e.g. socratic, first principles, pre-mortem, red team
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bmad-agent-analyst
Business analyst for market research, competitive analysis, and requirements. Use when the user asks to talk to Mary or requests the business analyst
.claude/skills/bmad-agent-analyst/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-agent-architect
System architect and technical design leader. Use when the user asks to talk to Winston or requests the architect
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bmad-agent-dev
Senior software engineer who implements stories and code changes. Use when the user asks to talk to Amelia or requests the developer agent
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bmad-agent-pm
Product manager for PRD creation and requirements discovery. Use when the user asks to talk to John or requests the product manager
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bmad-agent-ux-designer
UX designer and UI specialist. Use when the user asks to talk to Sally or requests the UX designer
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bmad-architecture
Work out and record the architecture decisions that keep separately built parts of a system consistent, in a short architecture document. Creates, updates, or validates one; works from a spec, a raw idea, or an existing codebase. Use when the user says "create the architecture", "create technical architecture", "architecture spine", or "create a solution design"
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bmad-brainstorming
Facilitate a brainstorming session using diverse creative techniques. Use when the user says 'help me brainstorm' or 'help me ideate'
.claude/skills/bmad-brainstorming/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-build-auto
One iteration of an unattended development loop. Use when invoked by name
.claude/skills/bmad-build-auto/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-build
Turns implementation work into working code, reviewed and verified. Use when the user delegates a feature, story, bug fix, or meaningful change; a bare story or issue link counts. Skip obvious, low-risk mechanical maintenance such as small ignore-file, typo-only, formatting-only, or configuration-hygiene edits. Explicit BMAD requests always qualify. Do not volunteer for user-directed interactive…
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bmad-code-review
Review code changes with several independent reviewers in parallel, then triage and present the findings. Use when the user says "run code review" or "review this code"
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bmad-correct-course
Assess the impact of a significant change during sprint execution across the PRD, epics, architecture, and UX documents, and produce a sprint change proposal. Use when the user says "correct course" or "propose sprint change"
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bmad-customize
Authors and updates customization overrides for installed BMad skills. Use when the user says 'customize bmad', 'override a skill', 'change agent behavior', or 'customize a workflow'
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bmad-deep-recon
Research a topic to support a decision, three ways: draft a research prompt for the user to run in their own tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, …), turn a finished research report into a short summary with cited sources that other skills can use directly, or run the research here with parallel web searches. Built-in research types: market, domain, technical, competitive, user-voice, academi…
.claude/skills/bmad-deep-recon/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-eval
Runs the evals of a BMad skill through the agent harness the user works in and reports what they show: baseline against the bare model, variant against a stripped or prior version, quality against a rubric, and trigger accuracy of the description with an optional optimization loop. Use when the user asks to evaluate, benchmark, test the triggers of, grade, or compare versions of a skill, or when…
.claude/skills/bmad-eval/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-forge-idea
Test a half-formed idea in a questioning conversation, with different personas probing its weak points, until the user can act on it or drop it with confidence. Optionally writes a short brief for planning skills to build on. Use when the user says 'forge an idea', 'pressure-test this idea', 'stress-test my thinking', or 'harden this idea'
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bmad-party-mode
Orchestrates lively group discussions between installed BMAD agents or custom personas, and helps author custom parties. Use when the user requests party mode, a roundtable, or multiple agent perspectives — or wants to create/configure a party, define personas, or build an AI focus-group panel
.claude/skills/bmad-party-mode/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-prd
Create, update, or validate a PRD. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a PRD
.claude/skills/bmad-prd/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-prfaq
Test a product concept with Amazon's Working Backwards method: write the press release for the finished product first, then answer hard customer and stakeholder questions, ending in a complete PRFAQ document. Use when the user requests to 'create a PRFAQ', 'work backwards', or 'run the PRFAQ challenge'
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bmad-product-brief
Create, update, or validate a product brief. Use when the user wants help producing, editing, or validating a brief
.claude/skills/bmad-product-brief/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-project-context
Set up, adopt, refresh, or audit a repository's agent instructions (the AGENTS.md block) so AI agents work well in that repo. Also records observed agent mistakes as pitfalls. Use when invoked by name
.claude/skills/bmad-project-context/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-qa-generate-e2e-tests
Generate automated API and end-to-end tests for implemented features. Use when the user says "create qa automated tests for [feature]"
.claude/skills/bmad-qa-generate-e2e-tests/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-retrospective
Review a finished epic folder in the ticket tree against the evidence it left behind — the epic file, each ticket plan, diffs, commits — and produce a retrospective with sourced findings, action items, and an acceptance decision. Use when the user says "run a retrospective" or "lets retro the epic [epic]". Supports -H/--headless
.claude/skills/bmad-retrospective/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-review
Runs one or more installed review lenses — adversarial critique, edge cases, verification gaps, structure, prose — and reports triaged findings. Use when, and only when, the user asks you to review a diff, a pull request, or an artifact — code or documents, one or many — and actually says "review"; an explicit skill:bmad-review directive from another skill counts as that ask. A request to act on…
.claude/skills/bmad-review/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-spec
Condense any input — an idea, brief, PRD, transcript, or mixed notes — into a short spec: one kernel file plus supporting files that downstream skills build from. Also updates and validates existing specs. Use when the user says "create a spec", "distill this into a spec", "validate this spec", or "update the spec"
.claude/skills/bmad-spec/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-ticket
Create and manage tickets — initiatives, epics, stories, bugs. Use when the user says "create a new initiative", "slice this initiative", "split this epic up", "break this into stories", "incept this epic", "make a ticket", "refine this ticket", "what's ready", "status of a story", "publish ticket changes", "validate these tickets", "set up the ticket store".
.claude/skills/bmad-ticket/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-toolsmith
Smithy the Toolsmith builds, converts, reviews, packages, validates and migrates BMad skills, agents and modules. Use when the user wants a skill, agent, persona, command or module made, changed, reviewed or packaged; a prompt or rule from another tool turned into a skill; a skill mined from session logs; an old module migrated; or asks for Smithy. Not for running evals (`bmad-eval`), overriding…
.claude/skills/bmad-toolsmith/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-ux
Capture the user's UX vision in two documents: DESIGN.md for how the product looks and EXPERIENCE.md for how it behaves. Use when the user says "lets create UX design" or "create UX specifications" or "help me plan the UX"
.claude/skills/bmad-ux/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad-walkthrough
Guide a human review of a commit, PR, file, or directory. Use when invoked by name
.claude/skills/bmad-walkthrough/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
bmad
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.
.claude/skills/bmad/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
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Review before you install
A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.