This release introduces significant enhancements across multiple areas:
QA Agent Transformation:
- Transform QA agent into senior developer role with active code refactoring abilities
- Add review-story task enabling QA to review, refactor, and improve code directly
- Integrate QA review step into standard development workflow (SM → Dev → QA)
- QA can fix small issues directly and leave checklist for remaining items
- Updated dev agent to maintain File List for QA review focus
Knowledge Base Improvements:
- Add extensive brownfield development documentation and best practices
- Clarify Web UI vs IDE usage with cost optimization strategies
- Document PRD-first approach for large codebases/monorepos
- Add comprehensive expansion packs explanation
- Update IDE workflow to include QA review step
- Clarify agent usage (bmad-master vs specialized agents)
Brownfield Enhancements:
- Create comprehensive Working in the Brownfield guide
- Add document-project task to analyst agent capabilities
- Implement PRD-first workflow option for focused documentation
- Transform document-project to create practical brownfield architecture docs
- Document technical debt, workarounds, and real-world constraints
- Reference actual files instead of duplicating content
- Add impact analysis when PRD is provided
Documentation Task Improvements:
- Simplify to always create ONE unified architecture document
- Add deep codebase analysis phase with targeted questions
- Focus on documenting reality including technical debt
- Include Quick Reference section with key file paths
- Add practical sections: useful commands, debugging tips, known issues
Workflow Updates:
- Update all 6 workflow files with detailed IDE transition instructions
- Add clear SM → Dev → QA → Dev cycle explanation
- Emphasize Gemini Web for brownfield analysis (1M+ context advantage)
- Support both PRD-first and document-first approaches
This release significantly improves the brownfield development experience and introduces a powerful shift-left QA approach with senior developer mentoring.
* feat: add expansion pack installation system with game dev and infrastructure expansion packs
- Added expansion pack discovery and installation to BMAD installer
- Supports interactive and CLI installation of expansion packs
- Expansion pack files install to destination root (.bmad-core)
- Added game development expansion pack (.bmad-2d-phaser-game-dev)
- Game designer, developer, and scrum master agents
- Game-specific templates, tasks, workflows, and guidelines
- Specialized for Phaser 3 + TypeScript development
- Added infrastructure devops expansion pack (.bmad-infrastructure-devops)
- Platform engineering agent and infrastructure templates
- Expansion pack agents automatically integrate with IDE rules
- Added list:expansions command and --expansion-packs CLI option
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* alpha expansion packs and installer update to support installing expansion packs optionally
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Major refactoring to streamline agent configuration structure and improve build reliability:
Agent Configuration Simplification:
- Remove environment sections from all agent YAML files
- Add single 'persona' property to agent configs pointing to persona file
- All agents now use consistent, simplified structure without web/ide environment splits
- Fix dev agent to be available for web environment (was causing team-dev bundle build failure)
Build System Updates:
- Update dependency-resolver.js to use new persona property instead of environments.web.persona_file
- Update bundle-optimizer.js to load personas using agent's persona property
- Remove environment availability checks since all agents are now web-compatible
- Change output directory from dist/web/bundles/ to dist/web/teams/ for clarity
File Organization:
- Move IDE-specific personas (dev.ide.md, devops-pe.ide.md, sm.ide.md) to bmad-core/ide-agents/
- Rename team bundles for clarity:
- team-full.yml → team-full-app.yml (web application teams)
- team-planning.yml → team-small-service.yml (backend service teams)
- Remove team-full-ide.yml (IDE teams will be handled separately)
This change ensures all 3 web team bundles build successfully and simplifies future agent maintenance.
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