Capabilities, Not a Pile of Skills
Building Creatina with the rebuilt Agent Builder: one agent that remembers me, evolves as we talk, and works while I sleep.
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AI development, agentic tooling, and what's actually working right now.
Brian Madison (AKA BMad) — 25+ years in software engineering, creator of the BMad Method, and the person Fortune 500 teams call to go AI-native.
Your Engineers Don't Have an AI Skill Gap. They Have a Permission Problem.
There is a gap, in most engineering organizations right now, between what the AI coding tools can actually do and what their engineers are actually
brian madison
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Trading 25 Years of Pixel Pushing for AI Strategy: The Token Slot Machine, You're Doing UX Backwards, and Why Two Agents Beat Two Hundred Skills
After 25 years of UX design, Marten Angner spent his first 20 minutes with the BMad method and called it a love story — then rebuilt how Whiteport Design Studio works.
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Your AI Should Be Arguing With You... and Making You Sweat!
Inside the PRFAQ gauntlet: Amazon's method for killing bad ideas before they cost you months, now powered by the BMad Method and an
brian madison
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What Does Going AI-Native Actually Mean?
Every few years, something shifts the entire foundation of how software gets built. Containers changed deployment. Cloud changed infrastructure. DevOps changed who was responsible for
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BMad V6 is Finally Here… /bmad-help, /party-mode... Pure Magic 🔥
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What's New
changelog
BMad Update: Web Bundles for Gemini & ChatGPT, plus BMM v6.8.0
Web Bundles launch for Gemini and ChatGPT. BMM v6.8.0 with the new bmad-prd / bmad-brief / bmad-ux / bmad-spec planning generation. Plus a community-driven UI in alpha.
changelog
BMad Builder v1.5.0 — Agents That Remember, Evolve, and Wake on Their Own
The biggest update to BMad Builder since v1.0 just shipped. The agent builder now
changelog
BMad Method v6.2.1 — Rebuilt Code Review, Smarter Quick Dev, and a Growing Global Community
The latest significant release of BMad Method brings a ground-up rewrite of code review,
Open Source
The BMad Method
The AI-native development framework used by teams at some of the largest brands in the industry. From solo developers to Fortune 500 engineering organizations — one methodology, any scale.
100% open source. Always free. Built by practitioners who ship software every day.
$ npx bmad-method install
Installing BMad Method...
Agents, workflows, skills — ready.
Done. Build something great.
New · Web Bundles
Run BMad in Gemini or ChatGPT
Self-contained planning agents for brainstorming, briefs, PRDs, PRFAQs, UX, and market research. Packaged as one-click installs for Google Gemini Gems and ChatGPT Custom GPTs. No IDE, no command line, no coding required.
Run the upfront thinking on your flat-rate web LLM subscription instead of burning IDE tokens. Drop the polished artifacts into your repo when you're ready to build.
Browse the shelf
Free to install · Gemini Advanced or ChatGPT Plus
Brainstorming Coach
60 ideation techniques across 10 categories
Product Brief Coach
Create, Update, or Validate a brief
PRFAQ Coach
Amazon Working Backwards discipline
PRD Coach
Built-in 7-dimension validation
UX Coach
DESIGN.md + EXPERIENCE.md spines
Market Research
Deep Research wrapped in a sharp brief
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