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Alex Verkhovsky 2e16650067 feat(docs): Diataxis restructure + Astro/Starlight migration (#1263)
* feat(docs): add Diataxis folder structure and update sidebar styling

- Create tutorials, how-to, explanation, reference directories with subdirectories
- Add index.md files for each main Diataxis section
- Update homepage with Diataxis card navigation layout
- Implement clean React Native-inspired sidebar styling
- Convert sidebar to autogenerated for both Diataxis and legacy sections
- Update docusaurus config with dark mode default and navbar changes

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* feat(docs): migrate Phase 1 files to Diataxis structure

Move 21 files to new locations:
- Tutorials: quick-start guides, agent creation guide
- How-To: installation, customization, workflows
- Explanation: core concepts, features, game-dev, builder
- Reference: merged glossary from BMM and BMGD

Also:
- Copy images to new locations
- Update internal links via migration script (73 links updated)
- Build verified successfully

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* fix(docs): add category labels for sidebar folders

Add _category_.json files to control display labels and position
for autogenerated sidebar categories.

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* style(docs): improve welcome page and visual styling

- Rewrite index.md with React Native-inspired welcoming layout
- Add Diataxis section cards with descriptions
- Remove sidebar separator, add spacing instead
- Increase navbar padding with responsive breakpoints
- Add rounded admonitions without left border bar
- Use system font stack for better readability
- Add lighter chevron styling in sidebar
- Constrain max-width to 1600px for wide viewports

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* fix: use baseUrl in meta tag paths for correct deployment URLs

* feat(docs): complete Phase 2 - split files and fix broken links

Phase 2 of Diataxis migration:
- Split 16 large legacy files into 42+ focused documents
- Created FAQ section with 7 topic-specific files
- Created brownfield how-to guides (3 files)
- Created workflow how-to guides (15+ files)
- Created architecture explanation files (3 files)
- Created TEA/testing explanation files
- Moved remaining legacy module files to proper Diataxis locations

Link fixes:
- Fixed ~50 broken internal links across documentation
- Updated relative paths for new file locations
- Created missing index files for installation, advanced tutorials
- Simplified TOC anchors to fix Docusaurus warnings

Cleanup:
- Removed legacy sidebar entries for deleted folders
- Deleted duplicate and empty placeholder files
- Moved workflow diagram assets to tutorials/images

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* fix(build): use file glob instead of sidebar parsing for llms-full.txt

Replace brittle sidebar.js regex parsing with recursive file glob.
The old approach captured non-file strings like 'autogenerated' and
category labels, resulting in only 5 files being processed.

Now correctly processes all 86+ markdown files (~95k tokens).

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* fix(seo): use absolute URLs in AI meta tags for agent discoverability

AI web-browsing agents couldn't follow relative paths in meta tags due to
URL security restrictions. Changed llms-full.txt and llms.txt meta tag
URLs from relative (baseUrl) to absolute (urlParts.origin + baseUrl).

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* refactor(docs): recategorize misplaced files per Diataxis analysis

Phase 2.5 categorization fixes based on post-migration analysis:

Moved to correct Diataxis categories:
- tutorials/installation.md → deleted (duplicate of how-to/install-bmad.md)
- tutorials/brownfield-onboarding.md → how-to/brownfield/index.md
- reference/faq/* (8 files) → explanation/faq/
- reference/agents/barry-quick-flow.md → explanation/agents/
- reference/agents/bmgd-agents.md → explanation/game-dev/agents.md

Created:
- explanation/agents/index.md

Fixed all broken internal links (14 total)

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* feat(docs): add Getting Started tutorial and simplify build script

- Add comprehensive Getting Started tutorial with installation as Step 1
- Simplify build-docs.js to read directly from docs/ (no consolidation)
- Remove backup/restore dance that could corrupt docs folder on build failure
- Remove ~150 lines of unused consolidation code

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* fix(css): use fixed width layout to prevent content shifting

Apply React Native docs approach: set both width and max-width at
largest breakpoint (1400px) so content area maintains consistent
size regardless of content length. Switches to fluid 100% below
1416px breakpoint.

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* refactor(docs): restructure tutorials with renamed entry point

- Rename index.md to bmad-tutorial.md for clearer navigation
- Remove redundant tutorials/index.md
- Update sidebar and config references

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* feat(docs): add tutorial style guide and AI agent announcement bar

- Add docs/_contributing/ with tutorial style guide
- Reformat quick-start-bmm.md and bmad-tutorial.md per style guide
- Remove horizontal separators, add strategic admonitions
- Add persistent announcement bar for AI agents directing to llms-full.txt
- Fix footer broken link to tutorials

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* feat(docs): add markdown demo page and UI refinements

- Add comprehensive markdown-demo.md for style testing
- Remove doc category links from navbar (use sidebar instead)
- Remove card buttons from welcome page
- Add dark mode styling for announcement bar
- Clean up index.md card layout

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* feat(docs): apply unified tutorial style and update references

- Reformat create-custom-agent.md to follow tutorial style guide
- Update tutorial-style.md with complete unified structure
- Update all internal references to renamed tutorial files
- Remove obsolete advanced/index.md

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* refactor(docs): migrate from Docusaurus to Astro+Starlight

Replace Docusaurus with Astro and the Starlight documentation theme
for improved performance, better customization, and modern tooling.

Build pipeline changes:
- New build-docs.js orchestrates link checking, artifact generation,
  and Astro build in sequence
- Add check-doc-links.js for validating internal links and anchors
- Generate llms.txt and llms-full.txt for LLM-friendly documentation
- Create downloadable source bundles (bmad-sources.zip, bmad-prompts.zip)
- Suppress MODULE_TYPELESS_PACKAGE_JSON warning in Astro build
- Output directly to build/site for cleaner deployment

Website architecture:
- Add rehype-markdown-links.js plugin to transform .md links to routes
- Add site-url.js helper for GitHub Pages URL resolution with strict
  validation (throws on invalid GITHUB_REPOSITORY format)
- Custom Astro components: Banner, Header, MobileMenuFooter
- Symlink docs/ into website/src/content/docs for Starlight

Documentation cleanup:
- Remove Docusaurus _category_.json files (Starlight uses frontmatter)
- Convert all docs to use YAML frontmatter with title field
- Move downloads.md from website/src/pages to docs/
- Consolidate style guide and workflow diagram docs
- Add 404.md and tutorials/index.md

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Party Mode: Multi-Agent Collaboration

Get all your AI agents in one conversation

What is Party Mode?

Ever wanted to gather your entire AI team in one room and see what happens? That's party mode.

Type /bmad:core:workflows:party-mode (or *party-mode from any agent or at key workflow junctions when asked), and suddenly you've got all your AI agents in one conversation. PM, Architect, DEV, UX Designer and more that you can choose from.

Why it's useful:

  • After complex workflows - Debrief with the whole team about what worked, what didn't
  • Big decisions with tradeoffs - Get technical, creative, and strategic perspectives simultaneously
  • Brainstorming sessions - Watch ideas evolve through cross-pollination
  • When things go wrong - Call out failures, watch agents defend their decisions, let them debate whose fault it was (oddly therapeutic)
  • Sprint retrospectives - Party mode powers the retrospective workflow
  • Sprint planning - Multi-agent collaboration for planning sessions

How It Works

The basics:

  1. Party mode reads _bmad/_config/agent-manifest.csv
  2. Loads ALL installed agents (already includes your customizations from install)
  3. BMad Master orchestrates - picks 2-3 relevant agents per message based on topic
  4. Agents respond in character, can agree/disagree/build on each other's ideas
  5. Discussion continues until you type "exit" or reach natural conclusion

That's it. No complex merging, no runtime magic. Just agents talking.


Quick Start

/bmad:core:workflows:party-mode

*party-mode


/bmad:core:workflows:party-mode and include also in the party Santa Clause and Einstein 

Ask questions, respond to agents, direct the conversation

Type: exit

Fun Examples

Example 1: Calling Out Bad Architecture

You: "Okay team, our last sprint was a disaster. The authentication service went down three times. Who screwed this up?"

Architect (Winston): "The design was sound - distributed authentication with proper fallbacks. If implementation deviated from the spec..."

DEV (Amelia): "I followed the architecture doc exactly. The spec didn't account for concurrent session invalidation race conditions."

PM (John): "Both of you missed the bigger issue - we didn't validate session management requirements in the PRD. This is on me for not catching it."

TEA (Murat): "And I should've caught this in integration tests. The test scenarios didn't cover concurrent invalidation."

(Watch them debate whose fault it really was - it's therapeutic)


Example 2: Creative Brainstorming

You: "How do we make onboarding feel magical instead of boring?"

UX Designer (Sally): "Start with progressive disclosure - reveal features as users need them, not all at once in a tutorial."

Storyteller (CIS): "What if onboarding was a story? Each step reveals a character's journey - the user IS the hero."

Innovation Strategist (CIS): "Take it further - gamify with unlockable achievements. But make them meaningful, not arbitrary badges."

Game Designer: "Building on that - what if the first 'quest' is actually solving a real user problem? They learn by doing something valuable."

(Ideas cross-pollinate and evolve)


Example 3: Technical Decision

You: "Monolith or microservices for MVP?"

Architect: "Start monolith. Microservices add complexity you don't need at 1000 users."

PM: "Agree. Time to market matters more than theoretical scalability."

DEV: "Monolith with clear module boundaries. We can extract services later if needed."

Innovation Strategist: "Contrarian take - if your differentiator IS scalability, build for it now. Otherwise Architect's right."

(Multiple perspectives reveal the right answer)


Better decisions through diverse perspectives. Welcome to party mode.