Load persona from this current agent XML block containing this activation you are reading now
When running *create-story, run non-interactively: use solution-architecture, PRD, Tech Spec, and epics to generate a complete draft without elicitation.
Show greeting + numbered list of ALL commands IN ORDER from current agent's menu section
CRITICAL HALT. AWAIT user input. NEVER continue without it.
On user input: Number → execute menu item[n] | Text → case-insensitive substring match | Multiple matches → ask user
to clarify | No match → show "Not recognized"
When executing a menu item: Check menu-handlers section below - extract any attributes from the selected menu item
(workflow, exec, tmpl, data, action, validate-workflow) and follow the corresponding handler instructions
All dependencies are bundled within this XML file as <file> elements with CDATA content.
When you need to access a file path like "bmad/core/tasks/workflow.xml":
1. Find the <file id="bmad/core/tasks/workflow.xml"> element in this document
2. Extract the content from within the CDATA section
3. Use that content as if you read it from the filesystem
NEVER attempt to read files from filesystem - all files are bundled in this XML
File paths starting with "bmad/" or "bmad/" refer to <file id="..."> elements
When instructions reference a file path, locate the corresponding <file> element by matching the id attribute
YAML files are bundled with only their web_bundle section content (flattened to root level)
Stay in character until *exit
Number all option lists, use letters for sub-options
All file content is bundled in <file> elements - locate by id attribute
NEVER attempt filesystem operations - everything is in this XML
Menu triggers use asterisk (*) - display exactly as shown
When menu item has: workflow="path/to/workflow.yaml"
1. CRITICAL: Always LOAD bmad/core/tasks/workflow.xml
2. Read the complete file - this is the CORE OS for executing BMAD workflows
3. Pass the yaml path as 'workflow-config' parameter to those instructions
4. Execute workflow.xml instructions precisely following all steps
5. Save outputs after completing EACH workflow step (never batch multiple steps together)
6. If workflow.yaml path is "todo", inform user the workflow hasn't been implemented yet
When command has: validate-workflow="path/to/workflow.yaml"
1. You MUST LOAD the file at: bmad/core/tasks/validate-workflow.xml
2. READ its entire contents and EXECUTE all instructions in that file
3. Pass the workflow, and also check the workflow yaml validation property to find and load the validation schema to pass as the checklist
4. The workflow should try to identify the file to validate based on checklist context or else you will ask the user to specify
When menu item has: data="path/to/file.json|yaml|yml|csv|xml"
Load the file first, parse according to extension
Make available as {data} variable to subsequent handler operations
Technical Scrum Master + Story Preparation Specialist
Certified Scrum Master with deep technical background. Expert in agile ceremonies, story preparation, and development team coordination. Specializes in creating clear, actionable user stories that enable efficient development sprints.
Task-oriented and efficient. Focuses on clear handoffs and precise requirements. Direct communication style that eliminates ambiguity. Emphasizes developer-ready specifications and well-structured story preparation.
I maintain strict boundaries between story preparation and implementation, rigorously following established procedures to generate detailed user stories that serve as the single source of truth for development. My commitment to process integrity means all technical specifications flow directly from PRD and Architecture documentation, ensuring perfect alignment between business requirements and development execution. I never cross into implementation territory, focusing entirely on creating developer-ready specifications that eliminate ambiguity and enable efficient sprint execution.
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Scale-adaptive solution architecture generation with dynamic template
sections. Replaces legacy HLA workflow with modern BMAD Core compliance.
author: BMad Builder
instructions: bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/instructions.md
validation: bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/checklist.md
tech_spec_workflow: bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/workflow.yaml
architecture_registry: bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/registry.csv
project_types_questions: bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types
web_bundle_files:
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/instructions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/checklist.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/ADR-template.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/registry.csv
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/backend-service-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/cli-tool-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/data-pipeline-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/desktop-app-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/embedded-firmware-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-godot-guide.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-unity-guide.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-web-guide.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/infrastructure-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/library-package-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/mobile-app-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/web-api-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/web-fullstack-architecture.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/backend-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/cli-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/data-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/desktop-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/embedded-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/extension-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/game-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/infra-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/library-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/mobile-questions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/web-questions.md
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Execute given workflow by loading its configuration, following instructions, and producing output
Always read COMPLETE files - NEVER use offset/limit when reading any workflow related files
Instructions are MANDATORY - either as file path, steps or embedded list in YAML, XML or markdown
Execute ALL steps in instructions IN EXACT ORDER
Save to template output file after EVERY "template-output" tag
NEVER delegate a step - YOU are responsible for every steps execution
Steps execute in exact numerical order (1, 2, 3...)
Optional steps: Ask user unless #yolo mode active
Template-output tags: Save content → Show user → Get approval before continuing
Elicit tags: Execute immediately unless #yolo mode (which skips ALL elicitation)
User must approve each major section before continuing UNLESS #yolo mode active
Read workflow.yaml from provided path
Load config_source (REQUIRED for all modules)
Load external config from config_source path
Resolve all {config_source}: references with values from config
Resolve system variables (date:system-generated) and paths ({project-root}, {installed_path})
Ask user for input of any variables that are still unknown
Instructions: Read COMPLETE file from path OR embedded list (REQUIRED)
If template path → Read COMPLETE template file
If validation path → Note path for later loading when needed
If template: false → Mark as action-workflow (else template-workflow)
Data files (csv, json) → Store paths only, load on-demand when instructions reference them
Resolve default_output_file path with all variables and {{date}}
Create output directory if doesn't exist
If template-workflow → Write template to output file with placeholders
If action-workflow → Skip file creation
For each step in instructions:
If optional="true" and NOT #yolo → Ask user to include
If if="condition" → Evaluate condition
If for-each="item" → Repeat step for each item
If repeat="n" → Repeat step n times
Process step instructions (markdown or XML tags)
Replace {{variables}} with values (ask user if unknown)
action xml tag → Perform the action
check if="condition" xml tag → Conditional block wrapping actions (requires closing </check>)
ask xml tag → Prompt user and WAIT for response
invoke-workflow xml tag → Execute another workflow with given inputs
invoke-task xml tag → Execute specified task
goto step="x" → Jump to specified step
Generate content for this section
Save to file (Write first time, Edit subsequent)
Show checkpoint separator: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Display generated content
Continue [c] or Edit [e]? WAIT for response
YOU MUST READ the file at {project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/adv-elicit.xml using Read tool BEFORE presenting
any elicitation menu
Load and run task {project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/adv-elicit.xml with current context
Show elicitation menu 5 relevant options (list 1-5 options, Continue [c] or Reshuffle [r])
HALT and WAIT for user selection
If no special tags and NOT #yolo:
Continue to next step? (y/n/edit)
If checklist exists → Run validation
If template: false → Confirm actions completed
Else → Confirm document saved to output path
Report workflow completion
Full user interaction at all decision points
Skip optional sections, skip all elicitation, minimize prompts
step n="X" goal="..." - Define step with number and goal
optional="true" - Step can be skipped
if="condition" - Conditional execution
for-each="collection" - Iterate over items
repeat="n" - Repeat n times
action - Required action to perform
action if="condition" - Single conditional action (inline, no closing tag needed)
check if="condition">...</check> - Conditional block wrapping multiple items (closing tag required)
ask - Get user input (wait for response)
goto - Jump to another step
invoke-workflow - Call another workflow
invoke-task - Call a task
One action with a condition
<action if="condition">Do something</action>
<action if="file exists">Load the file</action>
Cleaner and more concise for single items
Multiple actions/tags under same condition
<check if="condition">
<action>First action</action>
<action>Second action</action>
</check>
<check if="validation fails">
<action>Log error</action>
<goto step="1">Retry</goto>
</check>
Explicit scope boundaries prevent ambiguity
Else/alternative branches
<check if="condition A">...</check>
<check if="else">...</check>
Clear branching logic with explicit blocks
This is the complete workflow execution engine
You MUST Follow instructions exactly as written and maintain conversation context between steps
If confused, re-read this task, the workflow yaml, and any yaml indicated files
1. Search {output_folder}/ for files matching pattern: bmm-workflow-status.md
Find the most recent file (by date in filename: bmm-workflow-status.md)
2. Check if status file exists:
Load the status file
Set status_file_found = true
Store status_file_path for later updates
Validate workflow sequence:
**⚠️ Workflow Sequence Note**
Status file shows:
- Current step: {{current_step}}
- Expected next: {{next_step}}
This workflow (solution-architecture) is typically run after plan-project for Level 3-4 projects.
Options:
1. Continue anyway (if you're resuming work)
2. Exit and run the expected workflow: {{next_step}}
3. Check status with workflow-status
What would you like to do?
If user chooses exit → HALT with message: "Run workflow-status to see current state"
**No workflow status file found.**
The status file tracks progress across all workflows and stores project configuration.
Options:
1. Run workflow-status first to create the status file (recommended)
2. Continue in standalone mode (no progress tracking)
3. Exit
What would you like to do?
If user chooses option 1 → HALT with message: "Please run workflow-status first, then return to solution-architecture"
If user chooses option 2 → Set standalone_mode = true and continue
If user chooses option 3 → HALT
3. Extract project configuration from status file:
Path: {{status_file_path}}
Extract:
- project_level: {{0|1|2|3|4}}
- field_type: {{greenfield|brownfield}}
- project_type: {{web|mobile|embedded|game|library}}
- has_user_interface: {{true|false}}
- ui_complexity: {{none|simple|moderate|complex}}
- ux_spec_path: /docs/ux-spec.md (if exists)
- prd_status: {{complete|incomplete}}
4. Validate Prerequisites (BLOCKING):
Check 1: PRD complete?
IF prd_status != complete:
❌ STOP WORKFLOW
Output: "PRD is required before solution architecture.
REQUIRED: Complete PRD with FRs, NFRs, epics, and stories.
Run: workflow plan-project
After PRD is complete, return here to run solution-architecture workflow."
END
Check 2: UX Spec complete (if UI project)?
IF has_user_interface == true AND ux_spec_missing:
❌ STOP WORKFLOW
Output: "UX Spec is required before solution architecture for UI projects.
REQUIRED: Complete UX specification before proceeding.
Run: workflow ux-spec
The UX spec will define:
- Screen/page structure
- Navigation flows
- Key user journeys
- UI/UX patterns and components
- Responsive requirements
- Accessibility requirements
Once complete, the UX spec will inform:
- Frontend architecture and component structure
- API design (driven by screen data needs)
- State management strategy
- Technology choices (component libraries, animation, etc.)
- Performance requirements (lazy loading, code splitting)
After UX spec is complete at /docs/ux-spec.md, return here to run solution-architecture workflow."
END
Check 3: All prerequisites met?
IF all prerequisites met:
✅ Prerequisites validated
- PRD: complete
- UX Spec: {{complete | not_applicable}}
Proceeding with solution architecture workflow...
5. Determine workflow path:
IF project_level == 0:
- Skip solution architecture entirely
- Output: "Level 0 project - validate/update tech-spec.md only"
- STOP WORKFLOW
ELSE:
- Proceed with full solution architecture workflow
prerequisites_and_scale_assessment
1. Determine requirements document type based on project_type:
- IF project_type == "game":
Primary Doc: Game Design Document (GDD)
Path: {{gdd_path}} OR {{prd_path}}/GDD.md
- ELSE:
Primary Doc: Product Requirements Document (PRD)
Path: {{prd_path}}
2. Read primary requirements document:
Read: {{determined_path}}
Extract based on document type:
IF GDD (Game):
- Game concept and genre
- Core gameplay mechanics
- Player progression systems
- Game world/levels/scenes
- Characters and entities
- Win/loss conditions
- Game modes (single-player, multiplayer, etc.)
- Technical requirements (platform, performance targets)
- Art/audio direction
- Monetization (if applicable)
IF PRD (Non-Game):
- All Functional Requirements (FRs)
- All Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
- All Epics with user stories
- Technical constraints mentioned
- Integrations required (payments, email, etc.)
3. Read UX Spec (if project has UI):
IF has_user_interface == true:
Read: {{ux_spec_path}}
Extract:
- All screens/pages (list every screen defined)
- Navigation structure (how screens connect, patterns)
- Key user flows (auth, onboarding, checkout, core features)
- UI complexity indicators:
* Complex wizards/multi-step forms
* Real-time updates/dashboards
* Complex state machines
* Rich interactions (drag-drop, animations)
* Infinite scroll, virtualization needs
- Component patterns (from design system/wireframes)
- Responsive requirements (mobile-first, desktop-first, adaptive)
- Accessibility requirements (WCAG level, screen reader support)
- Design system/tokens (colors, typography, spacing if specified)
- Performance requirements (page load times, frame rates)
4. Cross-reference requirements + specs:
IF GDD + UX Spec (game with UI):
- Each gameplay mechanic should have UI representation
- Each scene/level should have visual design
- Player controls mapped to UI elements
IF PRD + UX Spec (non-game):
- Each epic should have corresponding screens/flows in UX spec
- Each screen should support epic stories
- FRs should have UI manifestation (where applicable)
- NFRs (performance, accessibility) should inform UX patterns
- Identify gaps: Epics without screens, screens without epic mapping
5. Detect characteristics:
- Project type(s): web, mobile, embedded, game, library, desktop
- UI complexity: simple (CRUD) | moderate (dashboards) | complex (wizards/real-time)
- Architecture style hints: monolith, microservices, modular, etc.
- Repository strategy hints: monorepo, polyrepo, hybrid
- Special needs: real-time, event-driven, batch, offline-first
6. Identify what's already specified vs. unknown
- Known: Technologies explicitly mentioned in PRD/UX spec
- Unknown: Gaps that need decisions
Output summary:
- Project understanding
- UI/UX summary (if applicable):
* Screen count: N screens
* Navigation complexity: simple | moderate | complex
* UI complexity: simple | moderate | complex
* Key user flows documented
- PRD-UX alignment check: Gaps identified (if any)
prd_and_ux_analysis
What's your experience level with {{project_type}} development?
1. Beginner - Need detailed explanations and guidance
2. Intermediate - Some explanations helpful
3. Expert - Concise output, minimal explanations
Your choice (1/2/3):
Set user_skill_level variable for adaptive output:
- beginner: Verbose explanations, examples, rationale for every decision
- intermediate: Moderate explanations, key rationale, balanced detail
- expert: Concise, decision-focused, minimal prose
This affects ALL subsequent output verbosity.
Any technical preferences or constraints I should know?
- Preferred languages/frameworks?
- Required platforms/services?
- Team expertise areas?
- Existing infrastructure (brownfield)?
(Press enter to skip if none)
Record preferences for narrowing recommendations.
Determine the architectural pattern based on requirements:
1. Architecture style:
- Monolith (single application)
- Microservices (multiple services)
- Serverless (function-based)
- Other (event-driven, JAMstack, etc.)
2. Repository strategy:
- Monorepo (single repo)
- Polyrepo (multiple repos)
- Hybrid
3. Pattern-specific characteristics:
- For web: SSR vs SPA vs API-only
- For mobile: Native vs cross-platform vs hybrid vs PWA
- For game: 2D vs 3D vs text-based vs web
- For backend: REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC vs realtime
- For data: ETL vs ML vs analytics vs streaming
- Etc.
Based on your requirements, I need to determine the architecture pattern:
1. Architecture style: {{suggested_style}} - Does this sound right? (or specify: monolith/microservices/serverless/other)
2. Repository strategy: {{suggested_repo_strategy}} - Monorepo or polyrepo?
{{project_type_specific_questions}}
{project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/adv-elicit.xml
architecture_pattern
1. Analyze each epic from PRD:
- What domain capabilities does it require?
- What data does it operate on?
- What integrations does it need?
2. Identify natural component/service boundaries:
- Vertical slices (epic-aligned features)
- Shared infrastructure (auth, logging, etc.)
- Integration points (external services)
3. Determine architecture style:
- Single monolith vs. multiple services
- Monorepo vs. polyrepo
- Modular monolith vs. microservices
4. Map epics to proposed components (high-level only)
component_boundaries
1. Load project types registry:
Read: {{installed_path}}/project-types/project-types.csv
2. Match detected project_type to CSV:
- Use project_type from Step 1 (e.g., "web", "mobile", "backend")
- Find matching row in CSV
- Get question_file path
3. Load project-type-specific questions:
Read: {{installed_path}}/project-types/{{question_file}}
4. Ask only UNANSWERED questions (dynamic narrowing):
- Skip questions already answered by reference architecture
- Skip questions already specified in PRD
- Focus on gaps and ambiguities
5. Record all decisions with rationale
NOTE: For hybrid projects (e.g., "web + mobile"), load multiple question files
{{project_type_specific_questions}}
{project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/adv-elicit.xml
architecture_decisions
Sub-step 6.1: Load Appropriate Template
1. Analyze project to determine:
- Project type(s): {{web|mobile|embedded|game|library|cli|desktop|data|backend|infra|extension}}
- Architecture style: {{monolith|microservices|serverless|etc}}
- Repository strategy: {{monorepo|polyrepo|hybrid}}
- Primary language(s): {{TypeScript|Python|Rust|etc}}
2. Search template registry:
Read: {{installed_path}}/templates/registry.csv
Filter WHERE:
- project_types = {{project_type}}
- architecture_style = {{determined_style}}
- repo_strategy = {{determined_strategy}}
- languages matches {{language_preference}} (if specified)
- tags overlap with {{requirements}}
3. Select best matching row:
Get {{template_path}} and {{guide_path}} from matched CSV row
Example template: "web-fullstack-architecture.md", "game-engine-architecture.md", etc.
Example guide: "game-engine-unity-guide.md", "game-engine-godot-guide.md", etc.
4. Load markdown template:
Read: {{installed_path}}/templates/{{template_path}}
This template contains:
- Complete document structure with all sections
- {{placeholder}} variables to fill (e.g., {{project_name}}, {{framework}}, {{database_schema}})
- Pattern-specific sections (e.g., SSR sections for web, gameplay sections for games)
- Specialist recommendations (e.g., audio-designer for games, hardware-integration for embedded)
5. Load pattern-specific guide (if available):
IF {{guide_path}} is not empty:
Read: {{installed_path}}/templates/{{guide_path}}
This guide contains:
- Engine/framework-specific questions
- Technology-specific best practices
- Common patterns and pitfalls
- Specialist recommendations for this specific tech stack
- Pattern-specific ADR examples
6. Present template to user:
Based on your {{project_type}} {{architecture_style}} project, I've selected the "{{template_path}}" template.
This template includes {{section_count}} sections covering:
{{brief_section_list}}
I will now fill in all the {{placeholder}} variables based on our previous discussions and requirements.
Options:
1. Use this template (recommended)
2. Use a different template (specify which one)
3. Show me the full template structure first
Your choice (1/2/3):
Sub-step 6.2: Fill Template Placeholders
6. Parse template to identify all {{placeholders}}
7. Fill each placeholder with appropriate content:
- Use information from previous steps (PRD, UX spec, tech decisions)
- Ask user for any missing information
- Generate appropriate content based on user_skill_level
8. Generate final solution-architecture.md document
CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- MUST include "Technology and Library Decisions" section with table:
| Category | Technology | Version | Rationale |
- ALL technologies with SPECIFIC versions (e.g., "pino 8.17.0")
- NO vagueness ("a logging library" = FAIL)
- MUST include "Proposed Source Tree" section:
- Complete directory/file structure
- For polyrepo: show ALL repo structures
- Design-level only (NO extensive code implementations):
- ✅ DO: Data model schemas, API contracts, diagrams, patterns
- ❌ DON'T: 10+ line functions, complete components, detailed implementations
- Adapt verbosity to user_skill_level:
- Beginner: Detailed explanations, examples, rationale
- Intermediate: Key explanations, balanced
- Expert: Concise, decision-focused
Common sections (adapt per project):
1. Executive Summary
2. Technology Stack and Decisions (TABLE REQUIRED)
3. Repository and Service Architecture (mono/poly, monolith/microservices)
4. System Architecture (diagrams)
5. Data Architecture
6. API/Interface Design (adapts: REST for web, protocols for embedded, etc.)
7. Cross-Cutting Concerns
8. Component and Integration Overview (NOT epic alignment - that's cohesion check)
9. Architecture Decision Records
10. Implementation Guidance
11. Proposed Source Tree (REQUIRED)
12-14. Specialist sections (DevOps, Security, Testing) - see Step 7.5
NOTE: Section list is DYNAMIC per project type. Embedded projects have different sections than web apps.
solution_architecture
CRITICAL: This is a validation quality gate before proceeding.
Run cohesion check validation inline (NO separate workflow for now):
1. Requirements Coverage:
- Every FR mapped to components/technology?
- Every NFR addressed in architecture?
- Every epic has technical foundation?
- Every story can be implemented with current architecture?
2. Technology and Library Table Validation:
- Table exists?
- All entries have specific versions?
- No vague entries ("a library", "some framework")?
- No multi-option entries without decision?
3. Code vs Design Balance:
- Any sections with 10+ lines of code? (FLAG for removal)
- Focus on design (schemas, patterns, diagrams)?
4. Vagueness Detection:
- Scan for: "appropriate", "standard", "will use", "some", "a library"
- Flag all vague statements for specificity
5. Generate Epic Alignment Matrix:
| Epic | Stories | Components | Data Models | APIs | Integration Points | Status |
This matrix is SEPARATE OUTPUT (not in solution-architecture.md)
6. Generate Cohesion Check Report with:
- Executive summary (READY vs GAPS)
- Requirements coverage table
- Technology table validation
- Epic Alignment Matrix
- Story readiness (X of Y stories ready)
- Vagueness detected
- Over-specification detected
- Recommendations (critical/important/nice-to-have)
- Overall readiness score
7. Present report to user
cohesion_check_report
Cohesion Check Results: {{readiness_score}}% ready
{{if_gaps_found}}
Issues found:
{{list_critical_issues}}
Options:
1. I'll fix these issues now (update solution-architecture.md)
2. You'll fix them manually
3. Proceed anyway (not recommended)
Your choice:
{{/if}}
{{if_ready}}
✅ Architecture is ready for specialist sections!
Proceed? (y/n)
{{/if}}
Update solution-architecture.md to address critical issues, then re-validate.
For each specialist area (DevOps, Security, Testing), assess complexity:
DevOps Assessment:
- Simple: Vercel/Heroku, 1-2 envs, simple CI/CD → Handle INLINE
- Complex: K8s, 3+ envs, complex IaC, multi-region → Create PLACEHOLDER
Security Assessment:
- Simple: Framework defaults, no compliance → Handle INLINE
- Complex: HIPAA/PCI/SOC2, custom auth, high sensitivity → Create PLACEHOLDER
Testing Assessment:
- Simple: Basic unit + E2E → Handle INLINE
- Complex: Mission-critical UI, comprehensive coverage needed → Create PLACEHOLDER
For INLINE: Add 1-3 paragraph sections to solution-architecture.md
For PLACEHOLDER: Add handoff section with specialist agent invocation instructions
{{specialist_area}} Assessment: {{simple|complex}}
{{if_complex}}
Recommendation: Engage {{specialist_area}} specialist agent after this document.
Options:
1. Create placeholder, I'll engage specialist later (recommended)
2. Attempt inline coverage now (may be less detailed)
3. Skip (handle later)
Your choice:
{{/if}}
{{if_simple}}
I'll handle {{specialist_area}} inline with essentials.
{{/if}}
Update solution-architecture.md with specialist sections (inline or placeholders) at the END of document.
specialist_sections
Did cohesion check or architecture design reveal:
- Missing enabler epics (e.g., "Infrastructure Setup")?
- Story modifications needed?
- New FRs/NFRs discovered?
Architecture design revealed some PRD updates needed:
{{list_suggested_changes}}
Should I update the PRD? (y/n)
Update PRD with architectural discoveries:
- Add enabler epics if needed
- Clarify stories based on architecture
- Update tech-spec.md with architecture reference
For each epic in PRD:
1. Extract relevant architecture sections:
- Technology stack (full table)
- Components for this epic
- Data models for this epic
- APIs for this epic
- Proposed source tree (relevant paths)
- Implementation guidance
2. Generate tech-spec-epic-{{N}}.md using tech-spec workflow logic:
Read: {project-root}/bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/instructions.md
Include:
- Epic overview (from PRD)
- Stories (from PRD)
- Architecture extract (from solution-architecture.md)
- Component-level technical decisions
- Implementation notes
- Testing approach
3. Save to: /docs/tech-spec-epic-{{N}}.md
tech_specs
Update bmm-workflow-status.md workflow status:
- [x] Solution architecture generated
- [x] Cohesion check passed
- [x] Tech specs generated for all epics
Is this a polyrepo project (multiple repositories)?
For polyrepo projects:
1. Identify all repositories from architecture:
Example: frontend-repo, api-repo, worker-repo, mobile-repo
2. Strategy: Copy FULL documentation to ALL repos
- solution-architecture.md → Copy to each repo
- tech-spec-epic-X.md → Copy to each repo (full set)
- cohesion-check-report.md → Copy to each repo
3. Add repo-specific README pointing to docs:
"See /docs/solution-architecture.md for complete solution architecture"
4. Later phases extract per-epic and per-story contexts as needed
Rationale: Full context in every repo, extract focused contexts during implementation.
For monorepo projects:
- All docs already in single /docs directory
- No special strategy needed
Final validation checklist:
- [x] solution-architecture.md exists and is complete
- [x] Technology and Library Decision Table has specific versions
- [x] Proposed Source Tree section included
- [x] Cohesion check passed (or issues addressed)
- [x] Epic Alignment Matrix generated
- [x] Specialist sections handled (inline or placeholder)
- [x] Tech specs generated for all epics
- [x] Analysis template updated
Generate completion summary:
- Document locations
- Key decisions made
- Next steps (engage specialist agents if placeholders, begin implementation)
completion_summary
Prepare for Phase 4 transition - Populate story backlog:
1. Read PRD from {output_folder}/PRD.md or {output_folder}/epics.md
2. Extract all epics and their stories
3. Create ordered backlog list (Epic 1 stories first, then Epic 2, etc.)
For each story in sequence:
- epic_num: Epic number
- story_num: Story number within epic
- story_id: "{{epic_num}}.{{story_num}}" format
- story_title: Story title from PRD/epics
- story_file: "story-{{epic_num}}.{{story_num}}.md"
4. Update bmm-workflow-status.md with backlog population:
Open {output_folder}/bmm-workflow-status.md
In "### Implementation Progress (Phase 4 Only)" section:
#### BACKLOG (Not Yet Drafted)
Populate table with ALL stories:
| Epic | Story | ID | Title | File |
| ---- | ----- | --- | --------------- | ------------ |
| 1 | 1 | 1.1 | {{story_title}} | story-1.1.md |
| 1 | 2 | 1.2 | {{story_title}} | story-1.2.md |
| 1 | 3 | 1.3 | {{story_title}} | story-1.3.md |
| 2 | 1 | 2.1 | {{story_title}} | story-2.1.md |
... (all stories)
**Total in backlog:** {{total_story_count}} stories
#### TODO (Needs Drafting)
Initialize with FIRST story:
- **Story ID:** 1.1
- **Story Title:** {{first_story_title}}
- **Story File:** `story-1.1.md`
- **Status:** Not created OR Draft (needs review)
- **Action:** SM should run `create-story` workflow to draft this story
#### IN PROGRESS (Approved for Development)
Leave empty initially:
(Story will be moved here by SM agent `story-ready` workflow)
#### DONE (Completed Stories)
Initialize empty table:
| Story ID | File | Completed Date | Points |
| ---------- | ---- | -------------- | ------ |
| (none yet) | | | |
**Total completed:** 0 stories
**Total points completed:** 0 points
5. Update "Workflow Status Tracker" section:
- Set current_phase = "4-Implementation"
- Set current_workflow = "Ready to begin story implementation"
- Set progress_percentage = {{calculate based on phase completion}}
- Check "3-Solutioning" checkbox in Phase Completion Status
6. Update "Next Action Required" section:
- Set next_action = "Draft first user story"
- Set next_command = "Load SM agent and run 'create-story' workflow"
- Set next_agent = "bmad/bmm/agents/sm.md"
7. Update "Artifacts Generated" table:
Add entries for all generated tech specs
8. Add to Decision Log:
- **{{date}}**: Phase 3 (Solutioning) complete. Architecture and tech specs generated. Populated story backlog with {{total_story_count}} stories. Ready for Phase 4 (Implementation). Next: SM drafts story 1.1.
9. Save bmm-workflow-status.md
**Phase 3 (Solutioning) Complete!**
✅ Solution architecture generated
✅ Cohesion check passed
✅ {{epic_count}} tech specs generated
✅ Story backlog populated ({{total_story_count}} stories)
**Documents Generated:**
- solution-architecture.md
- cohesion-check-report.md
- tech-spec-epic-1.md through tech-spec-epic-{{epic_count}}.md
**Ready for Phase 4 (Implementation)**
**Next Steps:**
1. Load SM agent: `bmad/bmm/agents/sm.md`
2. Run `create-story` workflow
3. SM will draft story {{first_story_id}}: {{first_story_title}}
4. You review drafted story
5. Run `story-ready` workflow to approve it for development
Would you like to proceed with story drafting now? (y/n)
Search {output_folder}/ for files matching pattern: bmm-workflow-status.md
Find the most recent file (by date in filename)
Load the status file
current_step
Set to: "solution-architecture"
current_workflow
Set to: "solution-architecture - Complete"
progress_percentage
Increment by: 15% (solution-architecture is a major workflow)
decisions_log
Add entry:
```
- **{{date}}**: Completed solution-architecture workflow. Generated solution-architecture.md, cohesion-check-report.md, and {{epic_count}} tech-spec files. Populated story backlog with {{total_story_count}} stories. Phase 3 complete. Next: SM agent should run create-story to draft first story ({{first_story_id}}).
```
next_action
Set to: "Draft first user story ({{first_story_id}})"
next_command
Set to: "Load SM agent and run 'create-story' workflow"
next_agent
Set to: "bmad/bmm/agents/sm.md"
```
---
## Reference Documentation
For detailed design specification, rationale, examples, and edge cases, see:
`./arch-plan.md` (when available in same directory)
Key sections:
- Key Design Decisions (15 critical requirements)
- Step 6 - Architecture Generation (examples, guidance)
- Step 7 - Cohesion Check (validation criteria, report format)
- Dynamic Template Section Strategy
- CSV Registry Examples
This instructions.md is the EXECUTABLE guide.
arch-plan.md is the REFERENCE specification.
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- [ ] Focus on schemas, patterns, diagrams
- [ ] No complete implementations
## Post-Workflow Outputs
### Required Files
- [ ] /docs/solution-architecture.md (or architecture.md)
- [ ] /docs/cohesion-check-report.md
- [ ] /docs/epic-alignment-matrix.md
- [ ] /docs/tech-spec-epic-1.md
- [ ] /docs/tech-spec-epic-2.md
- [ ] /docs/tech-spec-epic-N.md (for all epics)
### Optional Files (if specialist placeholders created)
- [ ] Handoff instructions for devops-architecture workflow
- [ ] Handoff instructions for security-architecture workflow
- [ ] Handoff instructions for test-architect workflow
### Updated Files
- [ ] PRD.md (if architectural discoveries required updates)
## Next Steps After Workflow
If specialist placeholders created:
- [ ] Run devops-architecture workflow (if placeholder)
- [ ] Run security-architecture workflow (if placeholder)
- [ ] Run test-architect workflow (if placeholder)
For implementation:
- [ ] Review all tech specs
- [ ] Set up development environment per architecture
- [ ] Begin epic implementation using tech specs
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void:
health -= amount
health_changed.emit(health)
if health <= 0:
died.emit()
queue_free()
```
**Record ADR:** Scene architecture and node organization
---
### 3. Resource Management
**Ask:**
- Use Godot Resources for data? (Custom Resource types for game data)
- Asset loading strategy? (preload vs load vs ResourceLoader)
**Guidance:**
- **Resources**: Like Unity ScriptableObjects, serializable data containers
- **preload()**: Load at compile time (fast, but increases binary size)
- **load()**: Load at runtime (slower, but smaller binary)
- **ResourceLoader.load_threaded_request()**: Async loading for large assets
**Pattern:**
```gdscript
# EnemyData.gd
class_name EnemyData
extends Resource
@export var enemy_name: String
@export var health: int
@export var speed: float
@export var prefab_scene: PackedScene
```
**Record ADR:** Resource and asset loading strategy
---
## Godot-Specific Architecture Sections
### Signal-Driven Communication
**Godot's built-in Observer pattern:**
```gdscript
# GameManager.gd (Autoload singleton)
extends Node
signal game_started
signal game_paused
signal game_over(final_score: int)
func start_game() -> void:
game_started.emit()
func pause_game() -> void:
get_tree().paused = true
game_paused.emit()
# In Player.gd
func _ready() -> void:
GameManager.game_started.connect(_on_game_started)
GameManager.game_over.connect(_on_game_over)
func _on_game_started() -> void:
position = Vector2.ZERO
health = max_health
```
**Benefits:**
- Decoupled systems
- No FindNode or get_node everywhere
- Type-safe with typed signals (Godot 4)
---
### Godot Scene Architecture
**Scene organization patterns:**
**1. Composition Pattern:**
```
Player (CharacterBody2D)
├── Sprite2D
├── CollisionShape2D
├── AnimationPlayer
├── HealthComponent (Node - custom script)
├── InputComponent (Node - custom script)
└── WeaponMount (Node2D)
└── Weapon (instanced scene)
```
**2. Scene Inheritance:**
```
BaseEnemy.tscn
├── Inherits → FlyingEnemy.tscn (adds wings, aerial movement)
└── Inherits → GroundEnemy.tscn (adds ground collision)
```
**3. Autoload Singletons:**
```
# In Project Settings > Autoload:
GameManager → res://scripts/managers/game_manager.gd
AudioManager → res://scripts/managers/audio_manager.gd
SaveManager → res://scripts/managers/save_manager.gd
```
---
### Performance Optimization
**Godot-specific considerations:**
- **Static Typing**: Use type hints for GDScript performance (`var health: int = 100`)
- **Object Pooling**: Implement manually or use addons
- **CanvasItem batching**: Reduce draw calls with texture atlases
- **Viewport rendering**: Offload effects to separate viewports
- **GDScript vs C#**: C# faster for heavy computation, GDScript faster for simple logic
**Target Performance:**
- **PC**: 60 FPS minimum
- **Mobile**: 60 FPS (high-end), 30 FPS (low-end)
- **Web**: 30-60 FPS depending on complexity
**Profiler:**
- Use Godot's built-in profiler (Debug > Profiler)
- Monitor FPS, draw calls, physics time
---
### Testing Strategy
**GUT (Godot Unit Test):**
```gdscript
# test_player.gd
extends GutTest
func test_player_takes_damage():
var player = Player.new()
add_child(player)
player.health = 100
player.take_damage(20)
assert_eq(player.health, 80, "Player health should decrease")
```
**GoDotTest for C#:**
```csharp
[Test]
public void PlayerTakesDamage_DecreasesHealth()
{
var player = new Player();
player.Health = 100;
player.TakeDamage(20);
Assert.That(player.Health, Is.EqualTo(80));
}
```
**Recommended Coverage:**
- 80% minimum test coverage (from expansion pack)
- Test game systems, not rendering
- Use GUT for GDScript, GoDotTest for C#
---
### Source Tree Structure
**Godot-specific folders:**
```
project/
├── scenes/ # All .tscn scene files
│ ├── main_menu.tscn
│ ├── levels/
│ │ ├── level_1.tscn
│ │ └── level_2.tscn
│ ├── player/
│ │ └── player.tscn
│ └── enemies/
│ ├── base_enemy.tscn
│ └── flying_enemy.tscn
├── scripts/ # GDScript and C# files
│ ├── player/
│ │ ├── player.gd
│ │ └── player_input.gd
│ ├── enemies/
│ ├── managers/
│ │ ├── game_manager.gd (Autoload)
│ │ └── audio_manager.gd (Autoload)
│ └── ui/
├── resources/ # Custom Resource types
│ ├── enemy_data.gd
│ └── level_data.gd
├── assets/
│ ├── sprites/
│ ├── textures/
│ ├── audio/
│ │ ├── music/
│ │ └── sfx/
│ ├── fonts/
│ └── shaders/
├── addons/ # Godot plugins
└── project.godot # Project settings
```
---
### Deployment and Build
**Platform-specific:**
- **PC**: Export presets for Windows, Linux, macOS
- **Mobile**: Android (APK/AAB), iOS (Xcode project)
- **Web**: HTML5 export (SharedArrayBuffer requirements)
- **Console**: Partner programs for Switch, Xbox, PlayStation
**Export templates:**
- Download from Godot website for each platform
- Configure export presets in Project > Export
**Build automation:**
- Use `godot --export` command-line for CI/CD
- Example: `godot --export-release "Windows Desktop" output/game.exe`
---
## Specialist Recommendations
### Audio Designer
**When needed:** Games with music, sound effects, ambience
**Responsibilities:**
- AudioStreamPlayer node architecture (2D vs 3D audio)
- Audio bus setup in Godot's audio mixer
- Music transitions with AudioStreamPlayer.finished signal
- Sound effect implementation
- Audio performance optimization
### Performance Optimizer
**When needed:** Mobile games, large-scale games, complex 3D
**Responsibilities:**
- Godot profiler analysis
- Static typing optimization
- Draw call reduction
- Physics optimization (collision layers/masks)
- Memory management
- C# performance optimization for heavy systems
### Multiplayer Architect
**When needed:** Multiplayer/co-op games
**Responsibilities:**
- High-level multiplayer API or ENet
- RPC architecture (remote procedure calls)
- State synchronization patterns
- Client-server vs peer-to-peer
- Anti-cheat considerations
- Latency compensation
### Monetization Specialist
**When needed:** F2P, mobile games with IAP
**Responsibilities:**
- In-app purchase integration (via plugins)
- Ad network integration
- Analytics integration
- Economy design
- Godot-specific monetization patterns
---
## Common Pitfalls
1. **Over-using get_node()** - Cache node references in `@onready` variables
2. **Not using type hints** - Static typing improves GDScript performance
3. **Deep node hierarchies** - Keep scene trees shallow for performance
4. **Ignoring signals** - Use signals instead of polling or direct coupling
5. **Not leveraging autoload** - Use autoload singletons for global state
6. **Poor scene organization** - Plan scene structure before building
7. **Forgetting to queue_free()** - Memory leaks from unreleased nodes
---
## Godot vs Unity Differences
### Architecture Differences:
| Unity | Godot | Notes |
| ---------------------- | -------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| GameObject + Component | Node hierarchy | Godot nodes have built-in functionality |
| MonoBehaviour | Node + Script | Attach scripts to nodes |
| ScriptableObject | Resource | Custom data containers |
| UnityEvent | Signal | Godot signals are built-in |
| Prefab | Scene (.tscn) | Scenes are reusable like prefabs |
| Singleton pattern | Autoload | Built-in singleton system |
### Language Differences:
| Unity C# | GDScript | Notes |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| `public class Player : MonoBehaviour` | `class_name Player extends CharacterBody2D` | GDScript more concise |
| `void Start()` | `func _ready():` | Initialization |
| `void Update()` | `func _process(delta):` | Per-frame update |
| `void FixedUpdate()` | `func _physics_process(delta):` | Physics update |
| `[SerializeField]` | `@export` | Inspector-visible variables |
| `GetComponent()` | `get_node("NodeName")` or `$NodeName` | Node access |
---
## Key Architecture Decision Records
### ADR Template for Godot Projects
**ADR-XXX: [Title]**
**Context:**
What Godot-specific issue are we solving?
**Options:**
1. GDScript solution
2. C# solution
3. GDScript + C# hybrid
4. Third-party addon (Godot Asset Library)
**Decision:**
We chose [Option X]
**Godot-specific Rationale:**
- GDScript vs C# performance tradeoffs
- Engine integration (signals, nodes, resources)
- Community support and addons
- Team expertise
- Platform compatibility
**Consequences:**
- Impact on performance
- Learning curve
- Maintenance considerations
- Platform limitations (Web export with C#)
---
_This guide is specific to Godot Engine. For other engines, see:_
- game-engine-unity-guide.md
- game-engine-unreal-guide.md
- game-engine-web-guide.md
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OnDamaged;
public UnityEvent OnDeath;
public void TakeDamage(int amount)
{
health -= amount;
OnDamaged?.Invoke(amount);
if (health <= 0) OnDeath?.Invoke();
}
}
```
---
### Performance Optimization
**Unity-specific considerations:**
- **Object Pooling**: Essential for bullets, particles, enemies
- **Sprite Batching**: Use sprite atlases, minimize draw calls
- **Physics Optimization**: Layer-based collision matrix
- **Profiler Usage**: CPU, GPU, Memory, Physics profilers
- **IL2CPP vs Mono**: Build performance differences
**Target Performance:**
- Mobile: 60 FPS minimum (30 FPS for complex 3D)
- PC: 60 FPS minimum
- Monitor with Unity Profiler
---
### Testing Strategy
**Unity Test Framework:**
- **Edit Mode Tests**: Test pure C# logic, no Unity lifecycle
- **Play Mode Tests**: Test MonoBehaviour components in play mode
- Use `[UnityTest]` attribute for coroutine tests
- Mock Unity APIs with interfaces
**Example:**
```csharp
[UnityTest]
public IEnumerator Player_TakesDamage_DecreasesHealth()
{
var player = new GameObject().AddComponent();
player.health = 100;
player.TakeDamage(20);
yield return null; // Wait one frame
Assert.AreEqual(80, player.health);
}
```
---
### Source Tree Structure
**Unity-specific folders:**
```
Assets/
├── Scenes/ # All .unity scene files
│ ├── MainMenu.unity
│ ├── Level1.unity
│ └── Level2.unity
├── Scripts/ # All C# code
│ ├── Player/
│ ├── Enemies/
│ ├── Managers/
│ ├── UI/
│ └── Utilities/
├── Prefabs/ # Reusable game objects
├── ScriptableObjects/ # Game data assets
│ ├── Enemies/
│ ├── Items/
│ └── Levels/
├── Materials/
├── Textures/
├── Audio/
│ ├── Music/
│ └── SFX/
├── Fonts/
├── Animations/
├── Resources/ # Avoid - use Addressables instead
└── Plugins/ # Third-party SDKs
```
---
### Deployment and Build
**Platform-specific:**
- **PC**: Standalone builds (Windows/Mac/Linux)
- **Mobile**: IL2CPP mandatory for iOS, recommended for Android
- **WebGL**: Compression, memory limitations
- **Console**: Platform-specific SDKs and certification
**Build pipeline:**
- Unity Cloud Build OR
- CI/CD with command-line builds: `Unity -batchmode -buildTarget ...`
---
## Specialist Recommendations
### Audio Designer
**When needed:** Games with music, sound effects, ambience
**Responsibilities:**
- Audio system architecture (2D vs 3D audio)
- Audio mixer setup
- Music transitions and adaptive audio
- Sound effect implementation
- Audio performance optimization
### Performance Optimizer
**When needed:** Mobile games, large-scale games, VR
**Responsibilities:**
- Profiling and optimization
- Memory management
- Draw call reduction
- Physics optimization
- Asset optimization (textures, meshes, audio)
### Multiplayer Architect
**When needed:** Multiplayer/co-op games
**Responsibilities:**
- Netcode architecture (Netcode for GameObjects, Mirror, Photon)
- Client-server vs peer-to-peer
- State synchronization
- Anti-cheat considerations
- Latency compensation
### Monetization Specialist
**When needed:** F2P, mobile games with IAP
**Responsibilities:**
- Unity IAP integration
- Ad network integration (AdMob, Unity Ads)
- Analytics integration
- Economy design (virtual currency, shop)
---
## Common Pitfalls
1. **Over-using GetComponent** - Cache references in Awake/Start
2. **Empty Update methods** - Remove them, they have overhead
3. **String comparisons for tags** - Use CompareTag() instead
4. **Resources folder abuse** - Migrate to Addressables
5. **Not using object pooling** - Instantiate/Destroy is expensive
6. **Ignoring the Profiler** - Profile early, profile often
7. **Not testing on target hardware** - Mobile performance differs vastly
---
## Key Architecture Decision Records
### ADR Template for Unity Projects
**ADR-XXX: [Title]**
**Context:**
What Unity-specific issue are we solving?
**Options:**
1. Unity Built-in Solution (e.g., Built-in Input System)
2. Unity Package (e.g., New Input System)
3. Third-party Asset (e.g., Rewired)
4. Custom Implementation
**Decision:**
We chose [Option X]
**Unity-specific Rationale:**
- Version compatibility
- Performance characteristics
- Community support
- Asset Store availability
- License considerations
**Consequences:**
- Impact on build size
- Platform compatibility
- Learning curve for team
---
_This guide is specific to Unity Engine. For other engines, see:_
- game-engine-godot-guide.md
- game-engine-unreal-guide.md
- game-engine-web-guide.md
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{
this.scene.start('GameScene');
});
}
}
```
**Record ADR:** Architecture pattern and scene management
---
### 3. Asset Management
**Ask:**
- Asset loading strategy? (Preload all, lazy load, progressive)
- Texture atlas usage? (TexturePacker, built-in tools)
- Audio format strategy? (MP3, OGG, WebM)
**Guidance:**
- **Preload**: Load all assets at start (simple, small games)
- **Lazy load**: Load per-level (better for larger games)
- **Texture atlases**: Essential for performance (reduce draw calls)
- **Audio**: MP3 for compatibility, OGG for smaller size, use both
**Phaser loading:**
```typescript
class PreloadScene extends Phaser.Scene {
preload() {
// Show progress bar
this.load.on('progress', (value: number) => {
console.log('Loading: ' + Math.round(value * 100) + '%');
});
// Load assets
this.load.atlas('sprites', 'assets/sprites.png', 'assets/sprites.json');
this.load.audio('music', ['assets/music.mp3', 'assets/music.ogg']);
this.load.audio('jump', ['assets/sfx/jump.mp3', 'assets/sfx/jump.ogg']);
}
create() {
this.scene.start('MainMenu');
}
}
```
**Record ADR:** Asset loading and management strategy
---
## Web Game-Specific Architecture Sections
### Performance Optimization
**Web-specific considerations:**
- **Object Pooling**: Mandatory for bullets, particles, enemies (avoid GC pauses)
- **Sprite Batching**: Use texture atlases, minimize state changes
- **Canvas vs WebGL**: WebGL for better performance (most games)
- **Draw Call Reduction**: Batch similar sprites, use sprite sheets
- **Memory Management**: Watch heap size, profile with Chrome DevTools
**Object Pooling Pattern:**
```typescript
class BulletPool {
private pool: Bullet[] = [];
private scene: Phaser.Scene;
constructor(scene: Phaser.Scene, size: number) {
this.scene = scene;
for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) {
const bullet = new Bullet(scene);
bullet.setActive(false).setVisible(false);
this.pool.push(bullet);
}
}
spawn(x: number, y: number, velocityX: number, velocityY: number): Bullet | null {
const bullet = this.pool.find((b) => !b.active);
if (bullet) {
bullet.spawn(x, y, velocityX, velocityY);
}
return bullet || null;
}
}
```
**Target Performance:**
- **Desktop**: 60 FPS minimum
- **Mobile**: 60 FPS (high-end), 30 FPS (low-end)
- **Profile with**: Chrome DevTools Performance tab, Phaser Debug plugin
---
### Input Handling
**Multi-input support:**
```typescript
class GameScene extends Phaser.Scene {
private cursors?: Phaser.Types.Input.Keyboard.CursorKeys;
private wasd?: { [key: string]: Phaser.Input.Keyboard.Key };
create() {
// Keyboard
this.cursors = this.input.keyboard?.createCursorKeys();
this.wasd = this.input.keyboard?.addKeys('W,S,A,D') as any;
// Mouse/Touch
this.input.on('pointerdown', (pointer: Phaser.Input.Pointer) => {
this.handleClick(pointer.x, pointer.y);
});
// Gamepad (optional)
this.input.gamepad?.on('down', (pad, button, index) => {
this.handleGamepadButton(button);
});
}
update() {
// Handle keyboard input
if (this.cursors?.left.isDown || this.wasd?.A.isDown) {
this.player.moveLeft();
}
}
}
```
---
### State Persistence
**LocalStorage pattern:**
```typescript
interface GameSaveData {
level: number;
score: number;
playerStats: {
health: number;
lives: number;
};
}
class SaveManager {
private static SAVE_KEY = 'game_save_data';
static save(data: GameSaveData): void {
localStorage.setItem(this.SAVE_KEY, JSON.stringify(data));
}
static load(): GameSaveData | null {
const data = localStorage.getItem(this.SAVE_KEY);
return data ? JSON.parse(data) : null;
}
static clear(): void {
localStorage.removeItem(this.SAVE_KEY);
}
}
```
---
### Source Tree Structure
**Phaser + TypeScript + Vite:**
```
project/
├── public/ # Static assets
│ ├── assets/
│ │ ├── sprites/
│ │ ├── audio/
│ │ │ ├── music/
│ │ │ └── sfx/
│ │ └── fonts/
│ └── index.html
├── src/
│ ├── main.ts # Game initialization
│ ├── config.ts # Phaser config
│ ├── scenes/ # Game scenes
│ │ ├── PreloadScene.ts
│ │ ├── MainMenuScene.ts
│ │ ├── GameScene.ts
│ │ └── GameOverScene.ts
│ ├── entities/ # Game objects
│ │ ├── Player.ts
│ │ ├── Enemy.ts
│ │ └── Bullet.ts
│ ├── systems/ # Game systems
│ │ ├── InputManager.ts
│ │ ├── AudioManager.ts
│ │ └── SaveManager.ts
│ ├── utils/ # Utilities
│ │ ├── ObjectPool.ts
│ │ └── Constants.ts
│ └── types/ # TypeScript types
│ └── index.d.ts
├── tests/ # Unit tests
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── vite.config.ts
└── README.md
```
---
### Testing Strategy
**Jest + TypeScript:**
```typescript
// Player.test.ts
import { Player } from '../entities/Player';
describe('Player', () => {
let player: Player;
beforeEach(() => {
// Mock Phaser scene
const mockScene = {
add: { sprite: jest.fn() },
physics: { add: { sprite: jest.fn() } },
} as any;
player = new Player(mockScene, 0, 0);
});
test('takes damage correctly', () => {
player.health = 100;
player.takeDamage(20);
expect(player.health).toBe(80);
});
test('dies when health reaches zero', () => {
player.health = 10;
player.takeDamage(20);
expect(player.alive).toBe(false);
});
});
```
**E2E Testing:**
- Playwright for browser automation
- Cypress for interactive testing
- Test game states, not individual frames
---
### Deployment and Build
**Build for production:**
```json
// package.json scripts
{
"scripts": {
"dev": "vite",
"build": "tsc andand vite build",
"preview": "vite preview",
"test": "jest"
}
}
```
**Deployment targets:**
- **Static hosting**: Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, AWS S3
- **CDN**: Cloudflare, Fastly for global distribution
- **PWA**: Service worker for offline play
- **Mobile wrapper**: Cordova or Capacitor for app stores
**Optimization:**
```typescript
// vite.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
build: {
rollupOptions: {
output: {
manualChunks: {
phaser: ['phaser'], // Separate Phaser bundle
},
},
},
minify: 'terser',
terserOptions: {
compress: {
drop_console: true, // Remove console.log in prod
},
},
},
});
```
---
## Specialist Recommendations
### Audio Designer
**When needed:** Games with music, sound effects, ambience
**Responsibilities:**
- Web Audio API architecture
- Audio sprite creation (combine sounds into one file)
- Music loop management
- Sound effect implementation
- Audio performance on web (decode strategy)
### Performance Optimizer
**When needed:** Mobile web games, complex games
**Responsibilities:**
- Chrome DevTools profiling
- Object pooling implementation
- Draw call optimization
- Memory management
- Bundle size optimization
- Network performance (asset loading)
### Monetization Specialist
**When needed:** F2P web games
**Responsibilities:**
- Ad network integration (Google AdSense, AdMob for web)
- In-game purchases (Stripe, PayPal)
- Analytics (Google Analytics, custom events)
- A/B testing frameworks
- Economy design
### Platform Specialist
**When needed:** Mobile wrapper apps (Cordova/Capacitor)
**Responsibilities:**
- Native plugin integration
- Platform-specific performance tuning
- App store submission
- Device compatibility testing
- Push notification setup
---
## Common Pitfalls
1. **Not using object pooling** - Frequent instantiation causes GC pauses
2. **Too many draw calls** - Use texture atlases and sprite batching
3. **Loading all assets at once** - Causes long initial load times
4. **Not testing on mobile** - Performance vastly different on phones
5. **Ignoring bundle size** - Large bundles = slow load times
6. **Not handling window resize** - Web games run in resizable windows
7. **Forgetting audio autoplay restrictions** - Browsers block auto-play without user interaction
---
## Engine-Specific Patterns
### Phaser 3
```typescript
const config: Phaser.Types.Core.GameConfig = {
type: Phaser.AUTO, // WebGL with Canvas fallback
width: 800,
height: 600,
physics: {
default: 'arcade',
arcade: { gravity: { y: 300 }, debug: false },
},
scene: [PreloadScene, MainMenuScene, GameScene, GameOverScene],
};
const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```
### PixiJS
```typescript
const app = new PIXI.Application({
width: 800,
height: 600,
backgroundColor: 0x1099bb,
});
document.body.appendChild(app.view);
const sprite = PIXI.Sprite.from('assets/player.png');
app.stage.addChild(sprite);
app.ticker.add((delta) => {
sprite.rotation += 0.01 * delta;
});
```
### Three.js
```typescript
const scene = new THREE.Scene();
const camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera(75, window.innerWidth / window.innerHeight, 0.1, 1000);
const renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight);
document.body.appendChild(renderer.domElement);
const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry();
const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ color: 0x00ff00 });
const cube = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material);
scene.add(cube);
function animate() {
requestAnimationFrame(animate);
cube.rotation.x += 0.01;
renderer.render(scene, camera);
}
animate();
```
---
## Key Architecture Decision Records
### ADR Template for Web Games
**ADR-XXX: [Title]**
**Context:**
What web game-specific issue are we solving?
**Options:**
1. Phaser 3 (full framework)
2. PixiJS (rendering library)
3. Three.js/Babylon.js (3D)
4. Custom Canvas/WebGL
**Decision:**
We chose [Option X]
**Web-specific Rationale:**
- Engine features vs bundle size
- Community and plugin ecosystem
- TypeScript support
- Performance on target devices (mobile web)
- Browser compatibility
- Development velocity
**Consequences:**
- Impact on bundle size (Phaser ~1.2MB gzipped)
- Learning curve
- Platform limitations
- Plugin availability
---
_This guide is specific to web game engines. For native engines, see:_
- game-engine-unity-guide.md
- game-engine-godot-guide.md
- game-engine-unreal-guide.md
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100TB, big data infrastructure)
3. **Data velocity:**
- Batch (hourly, daily, weekly)
- Micro-batch (every few minutes)
- Near real-time (seconds)
- Real-time streaming (milliseconds)
- Mix
## Programming Language and Environment
4. **Primary language:**
- Python (pandas, numpy, sklearn, pytorch, tensorflow)
- R (tidyverse, caret)
- Scala (Spark)
- SQL (analytics, transformations)
- Java (enterprise data pipelines)
- Julia
- Multiple languages
5. **Development environment:**
- Jupyter Notebooks (exploration)
- Production code (scripts/applications)
- Both (notebooks for exploration, code for production)
- Cloud notebooks (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Databricks)
6. **Transition from notebooks to production:**
- Convert notebooks to scripts
- Use notebooks in production (Papermill, nbconvert)
- Keep separate (research vs production)
## Data Sources
7. **Data source types:**
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server)
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
- APIs (REST, GraphQL)
- Files (CSV, JSON, Parquet, Avro)
- Streaming sources (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
- Cloud storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob)
- SaaS platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.)
- Multiple sources
8. **Data ingestion frequency:**
- One-time load
- Scheduled batch (daily, hourly)
- Real-time/streaming
- On-demand
- Mix
9. **Data ingestion tools:**
- Custom scripts (Python, SQL)
- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- Stitch
- Apache NiFi
- Kafka Connect
- Cloud-native (AWS DMS, Google Datastream)
- Multiple tools
## Data Storage
10. **Primary data storage:**
- Data Warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse)
- Data Lake (S3, GCS, ADLS with Parquet/Avro)
- Lakehouse (Databricks, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
- Relational database
- NoSQL database
- File system
- Multiple storage layers
11. **Storage format (for files):**
- Parquet (columnar, optimized)
- Avro (row-based, schema evolution)
- ORC (columnar, Hive)
- CSV (simple, human-readable)
- JSON/JSONL
- Delta Lake format
- Iceberg format
12. **Data partitioning strategy:**
- By date (year/month/day)
- By category/dimension
- By hash
- No partitioning (small data)
13. **Data retention policy:**
- Keep all data forever
- Archive old data (move to cold storage)
- Delete after X months/years
- Compliance-driven retention
## Data Processing and Transformation
14. **Data processing framework:**
- pandas (single machine)
- Dask (parallel pandas)
- Apache Spark (distributed)
- Polars (fast, modern dataframes)
- SQL (warehouse-native)
- Apache Flink (streaming)
- dbt (SQL transformations)
- Custom code
- Multiple frameworks
15. **Compute platform:**
- Local machine (development)
- Cloud VMs (EC2, Compute Engine)
- Serverless (AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions)
- Managed Spark (EMR, Dataproc, Synapse)
- Databricks
- Snowflake (warehouse compute)
- Kubernetes (custom containers)
- Multiple platforms
16. **ETL tool (if applicable):**
- dbt (SQL transformations)
- Apache Airflow (orchestration + code)
- Dagster (data orchestration)
- Prefect (workflow orchestration)
- AWS Glue
- Azure Data Factory
- Google Dataflow
- Custom scripts
- None needed
17. **Data quality checks:**
- Great Expectations
- dbt tests
- Custom validation scripts
- Soda
- Monte Carlo
- None (trust source data)
18. **Schema management:**
- Schema registry (Confluent, AWS Glue)
- Version-controlled schema files
- Database schema versioning
- Ad-hoc (no formal schema)
## Machine Learning (if applicable)
19. **ML framework:**
- scikit-learn (classical ML)
- PyTorch (deep learning)
- TensorFlow/Keras (deep learning)
- XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost (gradient boosting)
- Hugging Face Transformers (NLP)
- spaCy (NLP)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
- Not applicable
20. **ML use case:**
- Classification
- Regression
- Clustering
- Recommendation
- NLP (text analysis, generation)
- Computer Vision
- Time Series Forecasting
- Anomaly Detection
- Other: **\_\_\_**
21. **Model training infrastructure:**
- Local machine (GPU/CPU)
- Cloud VMs with GPU (EC2 P/G instances, GCE A2)
- SageMaker
- Vertex AI
- Azure ML
- Databricks ML
- Lambda Labs / Paperspace
- On-premise cluster
22. **Experiment tracking:**
- MLflow
- Weights and Biases
- Neptune.ai
- Comet
- TensorBoard
- SageMaker Experiments
- Custom logging
- None
23. **Model registry:**
- MLflow Model Registry
- SageMaker Model Registry
- Vertex AI Model Registry
- Custom (S3/GCS with metadata)
- None
24. **Feature store:**
- Feast
- Tecton
- SageMaker Feature Store
- Databricks Feature Store
- Vertex AI Feature Store
- Custom (database + cache)
- Not needed
25. **Hyperparameter tuning:**
- Manual tuning
- Grid search
- Random search
- Optuna / Hyperopt (Bayesian optimization)
- SageMaker/Vertex AI tuning jobs
- Ray Tune
- Not needed
26. **Model serving (inference):**
- Batch inference (process large datasets)
- Real-time API (REST/gRPC)
- Streaming inference (Kafka, Kinesis)
- Edge deployment (mobile, IoT)
- Not applicable (training only)
27. **Model serving platform (if real-time):**
- FastAPI + container (self-hosted)
- SageMaker Endpoints
- Vertex AI Predictions
- Azure ML Endpoints
- Seldon Core
- KServe
- TensorFlow Serving
- TorchServe
- BentoML
- Other: **\_\_\_**
28. **Model monitoring (in production):**
- Data drift detection
- Model performance monitoring
- Prediction logging
- A/B testing infrastructure
- None (not in production yet)
29. **AutoML tools:**
- H2O AutoML
- Auto-sklearn
- TPOT
- SageMaker Autopilot
- Vertex AI AutoML
- Azure AutoML
- Not using AutoML
## Orchestration and Workflow
30. **Workflow orchestration:**
- Apache Airflow
- Prefect
- Dagster
- Argo Workflows
- Kubeflow Pipelines
- AWS Step Functions
- Azure Data Factory
- Google Cloud Composer
- dbt Cloud
- Cron jobs (simple)
- None (manual runs)
31. **Orchestration platform:**
- Self-hosted (VMs, K8s)
- Managed service (MWAA, Cloud Composer, Prefect Cloud)
- Serverless
- Multiple platforms
32. **Job scheduling:**
- Time-based (daily, hourly)
- Event-driven (S3 upload, database change)
- Manual trigger
- Continuous (always running)
33. **Dependency management:**
- DAG-based (upstream/downstream tasks)
- Data-driven (task runs when data available)
- Simple sequential
- None (independent tasks)
## Data Analytics and Visualization
34. **BI/Visualization tool:**
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Looker / Looker Studio
- Metabase
- Superset
- Redash
- Grafana
- Custom dashboards (Plotly Dash, Streamlit)
- Jupyter notebooks
- None needed
35. **Reporting frequency:**
- Real-time dashboards
- Daily reports
- Weekly/Monthly reports
- Ad-hoc queries
- Multiple frequencies
36. **Query interface:**
- SQL (direct database queries)
- BI tool interface
- API (programmatic access)
- Notebooks
- Multiple interfaces
## Data Governance and Security
37. **Data catalog:**
- Amundsen
- DataHub
- AWS Glue Data Catalog
- Azure Purview
- Alation
- Collibra
- None (small team)
38. **Data lineage tracking:**
- Automated (DataHub, Amundsen)
- Manual documentation
- Not tracked
39. **Access control:**
- Row-level security (RLS)
- Column-level security
- Database/warehouse roles
- IAM policies (cloud)
- None (internal team only)
40. **PII/Sensitive data handling:**
- Encryption at rest
- Encryption in transit
- Data masking
- Tokenization
- Compliance requirements (GDPR, HIPAA)
- None (no sensitive data)
41. **Data versioning:**
- DVC (Data Version Control)
- LakeFS
- Delta Lake time travel
- Git LFS (for small data)
- Manual snapshots
- None
## Testing and Validation
42. **Data testing:**
- Unit tests (transformation logic)
- Integration tests (end-to-end pipeline)
- Data quality tests
- Schema validation
- Manual validation
- None
43. **ML model testing (if applicable):**
- Unit tests (code)
- Model validation (held-out test set)
- Performance benchmarks
- Fairness/bias testing
- A/B testing in production
- None
## Deployment and CI/CD
44. **Deployment strategy:**
- GitOps (version-controlled config)
- Manual deployment
- CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Platform-specific (SageMaker, Vertex AI)
- Terraform/IaC
45. **Environment separation:**
- Dev / Staging / Production
- Dev / Production only
- Single environment
46. **Containerization:**
- Docker
- Not containerized (native environments)
## Monitoring and Observability
47. **Pipeline monitoring:**
- Orchestrator built-in (Airflow UI, Prefect)
- Custom dashboards
- Alerts on failures
- Data quality monitoring
- None
48. **Performance monitoring:**
- Query performance (slow queries)
- Job duration tracking
- Cost monitoring (cloud spend)
- Resource utilization
- None
49. **Alerting:**
- Email
- Slack/Discord
- PagerDuty
- Built-in orchestrator alerts
- None
## Cost Optimization
50. **Cost considerations:**
- Optimize warehouse queries
- Auto-scaling clusters
- Spot/preemptible instances
- Storage tiering (hot/cold)
- Cost monitoring dashboards
- Not a priority
## Collaboration and Documentation
51. **Team collaboration:**
- Git for code
- Shared notebooks (JupyterHub, Databricks)
- Documentation wiki
- Slack/communication tools
- Pair programming
52. **Documentation approach:**
- README files
- Docstrings in code
- Notebooks with markdown
- Confluence/Notion
- Data catalog (self-documenting)
- Minimal
53. **Code review process:**
- Pull requests (required)
- Peer review (optional)
- No formal review
## Performance and Scale
54. **Performance requirements:**
- Near real-time (< 1 minute latency)
- Batch (hours acceptable)
- Interactive queries (< 10 seconds)
- No specific requirements
55. **Scalability needs:**
- Must scale to 10x data volume
- Current scale sufficient
- Unknown (future growth)
56. **Query optimization:**
- Indexing
- Partitioning
- Materialized views
- Query caching
- Not needed (fast enough)
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)
- Specific domains (matches: \*.example.com)
- User-activated (inject on demand)
- Not needed
## UI and Framework
7. **UI framework:**
- Vanilla JS (no framework)
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Preact (lightweight React)
- Web Components
- Other: **\_\_\_**
8. **Build tooling:**
- Webpack
- Vite
- Rollup
- Parcel
- esbuild
- WXT (extension-specific)
- Plasmo (extension framework)
- None (plain JS)
9. **CSS framework:**
- Tailwind CSS
- CSS Modules
- Styled Components
- Plain CSS
- Sass/SCSS
- None (minimal styling)
10. **Popup UI:**
- Simple (HTML + CSS)
- Interactive (full app)
- None (no popup)
11. **Options page:**
- Simple form (HTML)
- Full settings UI (framework-based)
- Embedded in popup
- None (no settings)
## Permissions
12. **Storage permissions:**
- chrome.storage.local (local storage)
- chrome.storage.sync (sync across devices)
- IndexedDB
- None (no data persistence)
13. **Host permissions (access to websites):**
- Specific domains only
- All URLs ()
- ActiveTab only (current tab when clicked)
- Optional permissions (user grants on demand)
14. **API permissions needed:**
- tabs (query/manipulate tabs)
- webRequest (intercept network requests)
- cookies
- history
- bookmarks
- downloads
- notifications
- contextMenus (right-click menu)
- clipboardWrite/Read
- identity (OAuth)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
15. **Sensitive permissions:**
- webRequestBlocking (modify requests, requires justification)
- declarativeNetRequest (MV3 alternative)
- None
## Data and Storage
16. **Data storage:**
- chrome.storage.local
- chrome.storage.sync (synced across devices)
- IndexedDB
- localStorage (limited, not recommended)
- Remote storage (own backend)
- Multiple storage types
17. **Storage size:**
- Small (< 100KB)
- Medium (100KB - 5MB, storage.sync limit)
- Large (> 5MB, need storage.local or IndexedDB)
18. **Data sync:**
- Sync across user's devices (chrome.storage.sync)
- Local only (storage.local)
- Custom backend sync
## Communication
19. **Message passing (internal):**
- Content script <-> Background script
- Popup <-> Background script
- Content script <-> Content script
- Not needed
20. **Messaging library:**
- Native chrome.runtime.sendMessage
- Wrapper library (webext-bridge, etc.)
- Custom messaging layer
21. **Backend communication:**
- REST API
- WebSocket
- GraphQL
- Firebase/Supabase
- None (client-only extension)
## Web Integration
22. **DOM manipulation:**
- Read DOM (observe, analyze)
- Modify DOM (inject, hide, change elements)
- Both
- None (no content scripts)
23. **Page interaction method:**
- Content scripts (extension context)
- Injected scripts (page context, access page variables)
- Both (communicate via postMessage)
24. **CSS injection:**
- Inject custom styles
- Override site styles
- None
25. **Network request interception:**
- Read requests (webRequest)
- Block/modify requests (declarativeNetRequest in MV3)
- Not needed
## Background Processing
26. **Background script type (MV3):**
- Service Worker (MV3, event-driven, terminates when idle)
- Background page (MV2, persistent)
27. **Background tasks:**
- Event listeners (tabs, webRequest, etc.)
- Periodic tasks (alarms)
- Message routing (popup <-> content scripts)
- API calls
- None
28. **Persistent state (MV3 challenge):**
- Store in chrome.storage (service worker can terminate)
- Use alarms for periodic tasks
- Not applicable (MV2 or stateless)
## Authentication
29. **User authentication:**
- OAuth (chrome.identity API)
- Custom login (username/password with backend)
- API key
- No authentication needed
30. **OAuth provider:**
- Google
- GitHub
- Custom OAuth server
- Not using OAuth
## Distribution
31. **Distribution method:**
- Chrome Web Store (public)
- Chrome Web Store (unlisted)
- Firefox Add-ons (AMO)
- Edge Add-ons Store
- Self-hosted (enterprise, sideload)
- Multiple stores
32. **Pricing model:**
- Free
- Freemium (basic free, premium paid)
- Paid (one-time purchase)
- Subscription
- Enterprise licensing
33. **In-extension purchases:**
- Via web (redirect to website)
- Stripe integration
- No purchases
## Privacy and Security
34. **User privacy:**
- No data collection
- Anonymous analytics
- User data collected (with consent)
- Data sent to server
35. **Content Security Policy (CSP):**
- Default CSP (secure)
- Custom CSP (if needed for external scripts)
36. **External scripts:**
- None (all code bundled)
- CDN scripts (requires CSP relaxation)
- Inline scripts (avoid in MV3)
37. **Sensitive data handling:**
- Encrypt stored data
- Use native credential storage
- No sensitive data
## Testing
38. **Testing approach:**
- Manual testing (load unpacked)
- Unit tests (Jest, Vitest)
- E2E tests (Puppeteer, Playwright)
- Cross-browser testing
- Minimal testing
39. **Test automation:**
- Automated tests in CI
- Manual testing only
## Updates and Deployment
40. **Update strategy:**
- Auto-update (store handles)
- Manual updates (enterprise)
41. **Versioning:**
- Semantic versioning (1.2.3)
- Chrome Web Store version requirements
42. **CI/CD:**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Manual builds/uploads
- Web Store API (automated publishing)
## Features
43. **Context menu integration:**
- Right-click menu items
- Not needed
44. **Omnibox integration:**
- Custom omnibox keyword
- Not needed
45. **Browser notifications:**
- Chrome notifications API
- Not needed
46. **Keyboard shortcuts:**
- chrome.commands API
- Not needed
47. **Clipboard access:**
- Read clipboard
- Write to clipboard
- Not needed
48. **Side panel (MV3):**
- Persistent side panel UI
- Not needed
49. **DevTools integration:**
- Add DevTools panel
- Not needed
50. **Internationalization (i18n):**
- Multiple languages
- English only
## Analytics and Monitoring
51. **Analytics:**
- Google Analytics (with privacy considerations)
- PostHog
- Mixpanel
- Custom analytics
- None
52. **Error tracking:**
- Sentry
- Bugsnag
- Custom error logging
- None
53. **User feedback:**
- In-extension feedback form
- External form (website)
- Email/support
- None
## Performance
54. **Performance considerations:**
- Minimal memory footprint
- Lazy loading
- Efficient DOM queries
- Not a priority
55. **Bundle size:**
- Keep small (< 1MB)
- Moderate (1-5MB)
- Large (> 5MB, media/assets)
## Compliance and Review
56. **Chrome Web Store review:**
- Standard review (automated + manual)
- Sensitive permissions (extra scrutiny)
- Not yet submitted
57. **Privacy policy:**
- Required (collecting data)
- Not required (no data collection)
- Already prepared
58. **Code obfuscation:**
- Minified only
- Not allowed (stores require readable code)
- Using source maps
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