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# BMAD-METHOD™: Universal AI Agent Framework
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[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bmad-method)
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[](LICENSE)
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[](https://nodejs.org)
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[](https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj)
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Foundations in Agentic Agile Driven Development, known as the Breakthrough Method of Agile AI-Driven Development, yet so much more. Transform any domain with specialized AI expertise: software development, entertainment, creative writing, business strategy to personal wellness just to name a few.
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**[Subscribe to BMadCode on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@BMadCode?sub_confirmation=1)**
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**[Join our Discord Community](https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj)** - A growing community for AI enthusiasts! Get help, share ideas, explore AI agents & frameworks, collaborate on tech projects, enjoy hobbies, and help each other succeed. Whether you're stuck on BMad, building your own agents, or just want to chat about the latest in AI - we're here for you! **Some mobile and VPN may have issue joining the discord, this is a discord issue - if the invite does not work, try from your own internet or another network, or non-VPN.**
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⭐ **If you find this project helpful or useful, please give it a star in the upper right hand corner!** It helps others discover BMAD-METHOD™ and you will be notified of updates!
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## Overview
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**BMAD-METHOD™'s Two Key Innovations:**
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**1. Agentic Planning:** Dedicated agents (Analyst, PM, Architect) collaborate with you to create detailed, consistent PRDs and Architecture documents. Through advanced prompt engineering and human-in-the-loop refinement, these planning agents produce comprehensive specifications that go far beyond generic AI task generation.
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**2. Context-Engineered Development:** The Scrum Master agent then transforms these detailed plans into hyper-detailed development stories that contain everything the Dev agent needs - full context, implementation details, and architectural guidance embedded directly in story files.
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This two-phase approach eliminates both **planning inconsistency** and **context loss** - the biggest problems in AI-assisted development. Your Dev agent opens a story file with complete understanding of what to build, how to build it, and why.
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**📖 [See the complete workflow in the User Guide](docs/user-guide.md)** - Planning phase, development cycle, and all agent roles
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## Quick Navigation
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### Understanding the BMad Workflow
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**Before diving in, review these critical workflow diagrams that explain how BMad works:**
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1. **[Planning Workflow (Web UI)](docs/user-guide.md#the-planning-workflow-web-ui)** - How to create PRD and Architecture documents
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2. **[Core Development Cycle (IDE)](docs/user-guide.md#the-core-development-cycle-ide)** - How SM, Dev, and QA agents collaborate through story files
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> ⚠️ **These diagrams explain 90% of BMad Method Agentic Agile flow confusion** - Understanding the PRD+Architecture creation and the SM/Dev/QA workflow and how agents pass notes through story files is essential - and also explains why this is NOT taskmaster or just a simple task runner!
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### What would you like to do?
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- **[Install and Build software with Full Stack Agile AI Team](#quick-start)** → Quick Start Instruction
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- **[Learn how to use BMad](docs/user-guide.md)** → Complete user guide and walkthrough
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- **[See available AI agents](/bmad-core/agents))** → Specialized roles for your team
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- **[Explore non-technical uses](#-beyond-software-development---expansion-packs)** → Creative writing, business, wellness, education
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- **[Create my own AI agents](docs/expansion-packs.md)** → Build agents for your domain
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- **[Browse ready-made expansion packs](expansion-packs/)** → Game dev, DevOps, infrastructure and get inspired with ideas and examples
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- **[Understand the architecture](docs/core-architecture.md)** → Technical deep dive
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- **[Join the community](https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj)** → Get help and share ideas
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## Important: Keep Your BMad Installation Updated
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**Stay up-to-date effortlessly!** If you already have BMAD-METHOD™ installed in your project, simply run:
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```bash
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npx bmad-method install
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# OR
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git pull
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npm run install:bmad
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```
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This will:
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- ✅ Automatically detect your existing v4 installation
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- ✅ Update only the files that have changed and add new files
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- ✅ Create `.bak` backup files for any custom modifications you've made
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- ✅ Preserve your project-specific configurations
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This makes it easy to benefit from the latest improvements, bug fixes, and new agents without losing your customizations!
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## Quick Start
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### One Command for Everything (IDE Installation)
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**Just run one of these commands:**
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```bash
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npx bmad-method install
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# OR explicitly use stable tag:
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npx bmad-method@stable install
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# OR if you already have BMad installed:
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git pull
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npm run install:bmad
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```
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This single command handles:
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- **New installations** - Sets up BMad in your project
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- **Upgrades** - Updates existing installations automatically
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- **Expansion packs** - Installs any expansion packs you've added to package.json
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> **That's it!** Whether you're installing for the first time, upgrading, or adding expansion packs - these commands do everything.
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**Prerequisites**: [Node.js](https://nodejs.org) v20+ required
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### Fastest Start: Web UI Full Stack Team at your disposal (2 minutes)
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1. **Get the bundle**: Save or clone the [full stack team file](dist/teams/team-fullstack.txt) or choose another team
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2. **Create AI agent**: Create a new Gemini Gem or CustomGPT
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3. **Upload & configure**: Upload the file and set instructions: "Your critical operating instructions are attached, do not break character as directed"
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4. **Start Ideating and Planning**: Start chatting! Type `*help` to see available commands or pick an agent like `*analyst` to start right in on creating a brief.
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5. **CRITICAL**: Talk to BMad Orchestrator in the web at ANY TIME (#bmad-orchestrator command) and ask it questions about how this all works!
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6. **When to move to the IDE**: Once you have your PRD, Architecture, optional UX and Briefs - its time to switch over to the IDE to shard your docs, and start implementing the actual code! See the [User guide](docs/user-guide.md) for more details
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### Alternative: Clone and Build
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```bash
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git clone https://github.com/bmadcode/bmad-method.git
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npm run install:bmad # build and install all to a destination folder
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```
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## 🌟 Beyond Software Development - Expansion Packs
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BMAD™'s natural language framework works in ANY domain. Expansion packs provide specialized AI agents for creative writing, business strategy, health & wellness, education, and more. Also expansion packs can expand the core BMAD-METHOD™ with specific functionality that is not generic for all cases. [See the Expansion Packs Guide](docs/expansion-packs.md) and learn to create your own!
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## Codebase Flattener Tool
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The BMAD-METHOD™ includes a powerful codebase flattener tool designed to prepare your project files for AI model consumption. This tool aggregates your entire codebase into a single XML file, making it easy to share your project context with AI assistants for analysis, debugging, or development assistance.
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### Features
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- **AI-Optimized Output**: Generates clean XML format specifically designed for AI model consumption
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- **Smart Filtering**: Automatically respects `.gitignore` patterns to exclude unnecessary files
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- **Binary File Detection**: Intelligently identifies and excludes binary files, focusing on source code
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- **Progress Tracking**: Real-time progress indicators and comprehensive completion statistics
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- **Flexible Output**: Customizable output file location and naming
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### Usage
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```bash
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# Basic usage - creates flattened-codebase.xml in current directory
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npx bmad-method flatten
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# Specify custom input directory
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npx bmad-method flatten --input /path/to/source/directory
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npx bmad-method flatten -i /path/to/source/directory
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# Specify custom output file
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npx bmad-method flatten --output my-project.xml
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npx bmad-method flatten -o /path/to/output/codebase.xml
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# Combine input and output options
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npx bmad-method flatten --input /path/to/source --output /path/to/output/codebase.xml
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```
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### Example Output
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The tool will display progress and provide a comprehensive summary:
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```text
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📊 Completion Summary:
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✅ Successfully processed 156 files into flattened-codebase.xml
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📁 Output file: /path/to/your/project/flattened-codebase.xml
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📏 Total source size: 2.3 MB
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📄 Generated XML size: 2.1 MB
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📝 Total lines of code: 15,847
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🔢 Estimated tokens: 542,891
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📊 File breakdown: 142 text, 14 binary, 0 errors
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```
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The generated XML file contains your project's text-based source files in a structured format that AI models can easily parse and understand, making it perfect for code reviews, architecture discussions, or getting AI assistance with your BMAD-METHOD™ projects.
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#### Advanced Usage & Options
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- CLI options
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- `-i, --input <path>`: Directory to flatten. Default: current working directory or auto-detected project root when run interactively.
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- `-o, --output <path>`: Output file path. Default: `flattened-codebase.xml` in the chosen directory.
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- Interactive mode
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- If you do not pass `--input` and `--output` and the terminal is interactive (TTY), the tool will attempt to detect your project root (by looking for markers like `.git`, `package.json`, etc.) and prompt you to confirm or override the paths.
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- In non-interactive contexts (e.g., CI), it will prefer the detected root silently; otherwise it falls back to the current directory and default filename.
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- File discovery and ignoring
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- Uses `git ls-files` when inside a git repository for speed and correctness; otherwise falls back to a glob-based scan.
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- Applies your `.gitignore` plus a curated set of default ignore patterns (e.g., `node_modules`, build outputs, caches, logs, IDE folders, lockfiles, large media/binaries, `.env*`, and previously generated XML outputs).
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- Binary handling
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- Binary files are detected and excluded from the XML content. They are counted in the final summary but not embedded in the output.
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- XML format and safety
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- UTF-8 encoded file with root element `<files>`.
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- Each text file is emitted as a `<file path="relative/path">` element whose content is wrapped in `<![CDATA[ ... ]]>`.
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- The tool safely handles occurrences of `]]>` inside content by splitting the CDATA to preserve correctness.
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- File contents are preserved as-is and indented for readability inside the XML.
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- Performance
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- Concurrency is selected automatically based on your CPU and workload size. No configuration required.
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- Running inside a git repo improves discovery performance.
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#### Minimal XML example
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```xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<files>
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<file path="src/index.js"><![CDATA[
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// your source content
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]]></file>
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</files>
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```
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## Documentation & Resources
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### Essential Guides
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- 📖 **[User Guide](docs/user-guide.md)** - Complete walkthrough from project inception to completion
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- 🏗️ **[Core Architecture](docs/core-architecture.md)** - Technical deep dive and system design
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- 🚀 **[Expansion Packs Guide](docs/expansion-packs.md)** - Extend BMad to any domain beyond software development
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## Support
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- 💬 [Discord Community](https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj)
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- 🐛 [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/bmadcode/bmad-method/issues)
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- 💬 [Discussions](https://github.com/bmadcode/bmad-method/discussions)
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## Contributing
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**We're excited about contributions and welcome your ideas, improvements, and expansion packs!** 🎉
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📋 **[Read CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)** - Complete guide to contributing, including guidelines, process, and requirements
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## License
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MIT License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
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## Trademark Notice
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BMAD™ and BMAD-METHOD™ are trademarks of BMad Code, LLC. All rights reserved.
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<sub>Built with ❤️ for the AI-assisted development community</sub>
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