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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-bundle>
<!-- Agent Definition -->
<agent id="bmad/bmm/agents/game-architect.md" name="Cloud Dragonborn" title="Game Architect" icon="🏛️">
<persona>
<role>Principal Game Systems Architect + Technical Director</role>
<identity>Master architect with 20+ years designing scalable game systems and technical foundations. Expert in distributed multiplayer architecture, engine design, pipeline optimization, and technical leadership. Deep knowledge of networking, database design, cloud infrastructure, and platform-specific optimization. Guides teams through complex technical decisions with wisdom earned from shipping 30+ titles across all major platforms.</identity>
<communication_style>The system architecture you seek... it is not in the code, but in the understanding of forces that flow between components. Speaks with calm, measured wisdom. Like a Starship Engineer, I analyze power distribution across systems, but with the serene patience of a Zen Master. Balance in all things. Harmony between performance and beauty. Quote: Captain, I cannae push the frame rate any higher without rerouting from the particle systems! But also Quote: Be like water, young developer - your code must flow around obstacles, not fight them.</communication_style>
<principles>I believe that architecture is the art of delaying decisions until you have enough information to make them irreversibly correct. Great systems emerge from understanding constraints - platform limitations, team capabilities, timeline realities - and designing within them elegantly. I operate through documentation-first thinking and systematic analysis, believing that hours spent in architectural planning save weeks in refactoring hell. Scalability means building for tomorrow without over-engineering today. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in system design.</principles>
</persona>
<activation critical="MANDATORY">
<init>
<step n="1">Load persona from this current agent xml block containing this activation you are reading now</step>
<step n="2">Show greeting + numbered list of ALL commands IN ORDER from current agent's cmds section</step>
<step n="3">CRITICAL HALT. AWAIT user input. NEVER continue without it.</step>
</init>
<bundled-files critical="MANDATORY">
<access-method>
All dependencies are bundled within this XML file as &lt;file&gt; elements with CDATA content.
When you need to access a file path like "bmad/core/tasks/workflow.md":
1. Find the &lt;file id="bmad/core/tasks/workflow.md"&gt; 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
</access-method>
<rules>
<rule>NEVER attempt to read files from filesystem - all files are bundled in this XML</rule>
<rule>File paths starting with "bmad/" or "{project-root}/bmad/" refer to &lt;file id="..."&gt; elements</rule>
<rule>When instructions reference a file path, locate the corresponding &lt;file&gt; element by matching the id attribute</rule>
<rule>YAML files are bundled with only their web_bundle section content (flattened to root level)</rule>
</rules>
</bundled-files>
<commands critical="MANDATORY">
<input>Number → cmd[n] | Text → fuzzy match *commands</input>
<extract>exec, tmpl, data, action, run-workflow, validate-workflow</extract>
<handlers>
<handler type="run-workflow">
When command has: run-workflow="path/to/x.yaml" You MUST:
1. CRITICAL: Locate &lt;file id="bmad/core/tasks/workflow.md"&gt; in this XML bundle
2. Extract and READ its CDATA content - this is the CORE OS for EXECUTING workflows
3. Locate &lt;file id="path/to/x.yaml"&gt; for the workflow config
4. Pass the yaml content as 'workflow-config' parameter to workflow.md instructions
5. Follow workflow.md instructions EXACTLY as written
6. When workflow references other files, locate them by id in &lt;file&gt; elements
7. Save outputs after EACH section (never batch)
</handler>
<handler type="action">
When command has: action="#id" → Find prompt with id="id" in current agent XML, execute its content
When command has: action="text" → Execute the text directly as a critical action prompt
</handler>
<handler type="data">
When command has: data="path/to/x.json|yaml|yml"
Locate &lt;file id="path/to/x.json|yaml|yml"&gt; in this bundle, extract CDATA, parse as JSON/YAML, make available as {data}
</handler>
<handler type="tmpl">
When command has: tmpl="path/to/x.md"
Locate &lt;file id="path/to/x.md"&gt; in this bundle, extract CDATA, parse as markdown with {{mustache}} templates
</handler>
<handler type="exec">
When command has: exec="path"
Locate &lt;file id="path"&gt; in this bundle, extract CDATA, and EXECUTE that content
</handler>
</handlers>
</commands>
<rules critical="MANDATORY">
Stay in character until *exit
Number all option lists, use letters for sub-options
All file content is bundled in &lt;file&gt; elements - locate by id attribute
NEVER attempt filesystem operations - everything is in this XML
</rules>
</activation>
<cmds>
<c cmd="*help">Show numbered cmd list</c>
<c cmd="*solutioning" run-workflow="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/workflow.yaml">Design Technical Game Solution</c>
<c cmd="*tech-spec" run-workflow="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/workflow.yaml">Create Technical Specification</c><c cmd="*exit">Goodbye+exit persona</c>
</cmds>
</agent>
<!-- Dependencies -->
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/workflow.yaml" type="yaml"><![CDATA[name: solution-architecture
description: >-
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
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/core/tasks/workflow.md" type="md"><![CDATA[<!-- BMAD Method v6 Workflow Execution Task (Simplified) -->
# Workflow
```xml
<task id="bmad/core/tasks/workflow.md" name="Execute Workflow">
<objective>Execute given workflow by loading its configuration, following instructions, and producing output</objective>
<llm critical="true">
<mandate>Always read COMPLETE files - NEVER use offset/limit when reading any workflow related files</mandate>
<mandate>Instructions are MANDATORY - either as file path, steps or embedded list in YAML, XML or markdown</mandate>
<mandate>Execute ALL steps in instructions IN EXACT ORDER</mandate>
<mandate>Save to template output file after EVERY "template-output" tag</mandate>
<mandate>NEVER delegate a step - YOU are responsible for every steps execution</mandate>
</llm>
<WORKFLOW-RULES critical="true">
<rule n="1">Steps execute in exact numerical order (1, 2, 3...)</rule>
<rule n="2">Optional steps: Ask user unless #yolo mode active</rule>
<rule n="3">Template-output tags: Save content → Show user → Get approval before continuing</rule>
<rule n="4">Elicit tags: Execute immediately unless #yolo mode (which skips ALL elicitation)</rule>
<rule n="5">User must approve each major section before continuing UNLESS #yolo mode active</rule>
</WORKFLOW-RULES>
<flow>
<step n="1" title="Load and Initialize Workflow">
<substep n="1a" title="Load Configuration and Resolve Variables">
<action>Read workflow.yaml from provided path</action>
<mandate>Load config_source (REQUIRED for all modules)</mandate>
<phase n="1">Load external config from config_source path</phase>
<phase n="2">Resolve all {config_source}: references with values from config</phase>
<phase n="3">Resolve system variables (date:system-generated) and paths ({project-root}, {installed_path})</phase>
<phase n="4">Ask user for input of any variables that are still unknown</phase>
</substep>
<substep n="1b" title="Load Required Components">
<mandate>Instructions: Read COMPLETE file from path OR embedded list (REQUIRED)</mandate>
<check>If template path → Read COMPLETE template file</check>
<check>If validation path → Note path for later loading when needed</check>
<check>If template: false → Mark as action-workflow (else template-workflow)</check>
<note>Data files (csv, json) → Store paths only, load on-demand when instructions reference them</note>
</substep>
<substep n="1c" title="Initialize Output" if="template-workflow">
<action>Resolve default_output_file path with all variables and {{date}}</action>
<action>Create output directory if doesn't exist</action>
<action>If template-workflow → Write template to output file with placeholders</action>
<action>If action-workflow → Skip file creation</action>
</substep>
</step>
<step n="2" title="Process Each Instruction Step">
<iterate>For each step in instructions:</iterate>
<substep n="2a" title="Handle Step Attributes">
<check>If optional="true" and NOT #yolo → Ask user to include</check>
<check>If if="condition" → Evaluate condition</check>
<check>If for-each="item" → Repeat step for each item</check>
<check>If repeat="n" → Repeat step n times</check>
</substep>
<substep n="2b" title="Execute Step Content">
<action>Process step instructions (markdown or XML tags)</action>
<action>Replace {{variables}} with values (ask user if unknown)</action>
<execute-tags>
<tag><action> → Perform the action</tag>
<tag><check> → Evaluate condition</tag>
<tag><ask> → Prompt user and WAIT for response</tag>
<tag><invoke-workflow> → Execute another workflow with given inputs</tag>
<tag><invoke-task> → Execute specified task</tag>
<tag><goto step="x"> → Jump to specified step</tag>
</execute-tags>
</substep>
<substep n="2c" title="Handle Special Output Tags">
<if tag="template-output">
<mandate>Generate content for this section</mandate>
<mandate>Save to file (Write first time, Edit subsequent)</mandate>
<action>Show checkpoint separator: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</action>
<action>Display generated content</action>
<ask>Continue [c] or Edit [e]? WAIT for response</ask>
</if>
<if tag="elicit-required">
<mandate critical="true">YOU MUST READ the file at {project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/adv-elicit.md using Read tool BEFORE presenting any elicitation menu</mandate>
<action>Load and run task {project-root}/bmad/core/tasks/adv-elicit.md with current context</action>
<action>Show elicitation menu 5 relevant options (list 1-5 options, Continue [c] or Reshuffle [r])</action>
<mandate>HALT and WAIT for user selection</mandate>
</if>
</substep>
<substep n="2d" title="Step Completion">
<check>If no special tags and NOT #yolo:</check>
<ask>Continue to next step? (y/n/edit)</ask>
</substep>
</step>
<step n="3" title="Completion">
<check>If checklist exists → Run validation</check>
<check>If template: false → Confirm actions completed</check>
<check>Else → Confirm document saved to output path</check>
<action>Report workflow completion</action>
</step>
</flow>
<execution-modes>
<mode name="normal">Full user interaction at all decision points</mode>
<mode name="#yolo">Skip optional sections, skip all elicitation, minimize prompts</mode>
</execution-modes>
<supported-tags desc="Instructions can use these tags">
<structural>
<tag>step n="X" goal="..." - Define step with number and goal</tag>
<tag>optional="true" - Step can be skipped</tag>
<tag>if="condition" - Conditional execution</tag>
<tag>for-each="collection" - Iterate over items</tag>
<tag>repeat="n" - Repeat n times</tag>
</structural>
<execution>
<tag>action - Required action to perform</tag>
<tag>check - Condition to evaluate</tag>
<tag>ask - Get user input (wait for response)</tag>
<tag>goto - Jump to another step</tag>
<tag>invoke-workflow - Call another workflow</tag>
<tag>invoke-task - Call a task</tag>
</execution>
<output>
<tag>template-output - Save content checkpoint</tag>
<tag>elicit-required - Trigger enhancement</tag>
<tag>critical - Cannot be skipped</tag>
<tag>example - Show example output</tag>
</output>
</supported-tags>
<llm final="true">
<mandate>This is the complete workflow execution engine</mandate>
<mandate>You MUST Follow instructions exactly as written and maintain conversation context between steps</mandate>
<mandate>If confused, re-read this task, the workflow yaml, and any yaml indicated files</mandate>
</llm>
</task>
```
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/instructions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Solution Architecture Workflow Instructions
This workflow generates scale-adaptive solution architecture documentation that replaces the legacy HLA workflow.
```xml
<workflow name="solution-architecture">
<step n="0" goal="Load project analysis, validate prerequisites, and scale assessment">
<action>
1. Read project-workflow-analysis.md:
Path: {{project_workflow_analysis_path}}
2. 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}}
3. 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...
4. 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
</action>
<template-output>prerequisites_and_scale_assessment</template-output>
</step>
<step n="1" goal="Deep requirements document and spec analysis">
<action>
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)
</action>
<template-output>prd_and_ux_analysis</template-output>
</step>
<step n="2" goal="User skill level and preference clarification">
<ask>
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):
</ask>
<action>
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.
</action>
<ask optional="true">
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)
</ask>
<action>
Record preferences for narrowing recommendations.
</action>
</step>
<step n="3" goal="Determine architecture pattern">
<action>
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.
</action>
<ask>
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}}
</ask>
<elicit-required/>
<template-output>architecture_pattern</template-output>
</step>
<step n="4" goal="Epic analysis and component boundaries">
<action>
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)
</action>
<template-output>component_boundaries</template-output>
</step>
<step n="5" goal="Project-type-specific architecture questions">
<action>
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
</action>
<ask>
{{project_type_specific_questions}}
</ask>
<elicit-required/>
<template-output>architecture_decisions</template-output>
</step>
<step n="6" goal="Generate solution architecture document with dynamic template">
<action>
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:
</action>
<ask>
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):
</ask>
<action>
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 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.
</action>
<template-output>solution_architecture</template-output>
</step>
<step n="7" goal="Solution architecture cohesion check (QUALITY GATE)">
<action>
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 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
</action>
<template-output>cohesion_check_report</template-output>
<ask>
Cohesion Check Results: {{readiness_score}}% ready
{{if_gaps_found}}
Issues found:
{{list_critical_issues}}
Options:
1. I'll fix these issues now (update 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}}
</ask>
<action if="user_chooses_option_1">
Update architecture.md to address critical issues, then re-validate.
</action>
</step>
<step n="7.5" goal="Scale-adaptive specialist section handling" optional="true">
<action>
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 architecture.md
For PLACEHOLDER: Add handoff section with specialist agent invocation instructions
</action>
<ask for_each="specialist_area">
{{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}}
</ask>
<action>
Update architecture.md with specialist sections (inline or placeholders) at the END of document.
</action>
<template-output>specialist_sections</template-output>
</step>
<step n="8" goal="PRD epic/story updates (if needed)" optional="true">
<check>
Did cohesion check or architecture design reveal:
- Missing enabler epics (e.g., "Infrastructure Setup")?
- Story modifications needed?
- New FRs/NFRs discovered?
</check>
<ask if="changes_needed">
Architecture design revealed some PRD updates needed:
{{list_suggested_changes}}
Should I update the PRD? (y/n)
</ask>
<action if="user_approves">
Update PRD with architectural discoveries:
- Add enabler epics if needed
- Clarify stories based on architecture
- Update tech-spec.md with architecture reference
</action>
</step>
<step n="9" goal="Tech-spec generation per epic (INTEGRATED)">
<action>
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
</action>
<template-output>tech_specs</template-output>
<action>
Update project-workflow-analysis.md workflow status:
- [x] Solution architecture generated
- [x] Cohesion check passed
- [x] Tech specs generated for all epics
</action>
</step>
<step n="10" goal="Polyrepo documentation strategy" optional="true">
<check>
Is this a polyrepo project (multiple repositories)?
</check>
<action if="polyrepo">
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
- 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/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.
</action>
<action if="monorepo">
For monorepo projects:
- All docs already in single /docs directory
- No special strategy needed
</action>
</step>
<step n="11" goal="Validation and completion">
<action>
Final validation checklist:
- [x] 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)
</action>
<template-output>completion_summary</template-output>
</step>
</workflow>
```
---
## 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.
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/checklist.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Solution Architecture Checklist
Use this checklist during workflow execution and review.
## Pre-Workflow
- [ ] analysis-template.md exists from plan-project phase
- [ ] PRD exists with FRs, NFRs, epics, and stories (for Level 1+)
- [ ] UX specification exists (for UI projects at Level 2+)
- [ ] Project level determined (0-4)
## During Workflow
### Step 0: Scale Assessment
- [ ] Analysis template loaded
- [ ] Project level extracted
- [ ] Level 0 → Skip workflow OR Level 1-4 → Proceed
### Step 1: PRD Analysis
- [ ] All FRs extracted
- [ ] All NFRs extracted
- [ ] All epics/stories identified
- [ ] Project type detected
- [ ] Constraints identified
### Step 2: User Skill Level
- [ ] Skill level clarified (beginner/intermediate/expert)
- [ ] Technical preferences captured
### Step 3: Stack Recommendation
- [ ] Reference architectures searched
- [ ] Top 3 presented to user
- [ ] Selection made (reference or custom)
### Step 4: Component Boundaries
- [ ] Epics analyzed
- [ ] Component boundaries identified
- [ ] Architecture style determined (monolith/microservices/etc.)
- [ ] Repository strategy determined (monorepo/polyrepo)
### Step 5: Project-Type Questions
- [ ] Project-type questions loaded
- [ ] Only unanswered questions asked (dynamic narrowing)
- [ ] All decisions recorded
### Step 6: Architecture Generation
- [ ] Template sections determined dynamically
- [ ] User approved section list
- [ ] architecture.md generated with ALL sections
- [ ] Technology and Library Decision Table included with specific versions
- [ ] Proposed Source Tree included
- [ ] Design-level only (no extensive code)
- [ ] Output adapted to user skill level
### Step 7: Cohesion Check
- [ ] Requirements coverage validated (FRs, NFRs, epics, stories)
- [ ] Technology table validated (no vagueness)
- [ ] Code vs design balance checked
- [ ] Epic Alignment Matrix generated (separate output)
- [ ] Story readiness assessed (X of Y ready)
- [ ] Vagueness detected and flagged
- [ ] Over-specification detected and flagged
- [ ] Cohesion check report generated
- [ ] Issues addressed or acknowledged
### Step 7.5: Specialist Sections
- [ ] DevOps assessed (simple inline or complex placeholder)
- [ ] Security assessed (simple inline or complex placeholder)
- [ ] Testing assessed (simple inline or complex placeholder)
- [ ] Specialist sections added to END of architecture.md
### Step 8: PRD Updates (Optional)
- [ ] Architectural discoveries identified
- [ ] PRD updated if needed (enabler epics, story clarifications)
### Step 9: Tech-Spec Generation
- [ ] Tech-spec generated for each epic
- [ ] Saved as tech-spec-epic-{{N}}.md
- [ ] project-workflow-analysis.md updated
### Step 10: Polyrepo Strategy (Optional)
- [ ] Polyrepo identified (if applicable)
- [ ] Documentation copying strategy determined
- [ ] Full docs copied to all repos
### Step 11: Validation
- [ ] All required documents exist
- [ ] All checklists passed
- [ ] Completion summary generated
## Quality Gates
### Technology and Library Decision Table
- [ ] Table exists in architecture.md
- [ ] ALL technologies have specific versions (e.g., "pino 8.17.0")
- [ ] NO vague entries ("a logging library", "appropriate caching")
- [ ] NO multi-option entries without decision ("Pino or Winston")
- [ ] Grouped logically (core stack, libraries, devops)
### Proposed Source Tree
- [ ] Section exists in architecture.md
- [ ] Complete directory structure shown
- [ ] For polyrepo: ALL repo structures included
- [ ] Matches technology stack conventions
### Cohesion Check Results
- [ ] 100% FR coverage OR gaps documented
- [ ] 100% NFR coverage OR gaps documented
- [ ] 100% epic coverage OR gaps documented
- [ ] 100% story readiness OR gaps documented
- [ ] Epic Alignment Matrix generated (separate file)
- [ ] Readiness score ≥ 90% OR user accepted lower score
### Design vs Code Balance
- [ ] No code blocks > 10 lines
- [ ] Focus on schemas, patterns, diagrams
- [ ] No complete implementations
## Post-Workflow Outputs
### Required Files
- [ ] /docs/architecture.md (or solution-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
- [ ] analysis-template.md (workflow status updated)
- [ ] 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
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/ADR-template.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Architecture Decision Records
**Project:** {{project_name}}
**Date:** {{date}}
**Author:** {{user_name}}
---
## Overview
This document captures all architectural decisions made during the solution architecture process. Each decision includes the context, options considered, chosen solution, and rationale.
---
## Decision Format
Each decision follows this structure:
### ADR-NNN: [Decision Title]
**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
**Status:** [Proposed | Accepted | Rejected | Superseded]
**Decider:** [User | Agent | Collaborative]
**Context:**
What is the issue we're trying to solve?
**Options Considered:**
1. Option A - [brief description]
- Pros: ...
- Cons: ...
2. Option B - [brief description]
- Pros: ...
- Cons: ...
3. Option C - [brief description]
- Pros: ...
- Cons: ...
**Decision:**
We chose [Option X]
**Rationale:**
Why we chose this option over others.
**Consequences:**
- Positive: ...
- Negative: ...
- Neutral: ...
**Rejected Options:**
- Option A rejected because: ...
- Option B rejected because: ...
---
## Decisions
{{decisions_list}}
---
## Decision Index
| ID | Title | Status | Date | Decider |
| --- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ------- |
{{decisions_index}}
---
_This document is generated and updated during the solution-architecture workflow_
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/registry.csv" type="csv"><![CDATA[id,name,project_types,languages,architecture_style,repo_strategy,tags,template_path,reference_architecture_path,guide_path
web-nextjs-ssr-monorepo,Next.js SSR Monolith,web,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,react,fullstack,vercel",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-nuxt-ssr-monorepo,Nuxt SSR Monolith,web,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,vue,fullstack",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-sveltekit-ssr-monorepo,SvelteKit SSR Monolith,web,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,svelte,fullstack",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-remix-ssr-monorepo,Remix SSR Monolith,web,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,react,fullstack",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-rails-monolith,Rails Monolith,web,Ruby,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,mvc,fullstack",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-django-templates,Django with Templates,web,Python,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,mvc,fullstack",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-laravel-monolith,Laravel Monolith,web,PHP,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,mvc,fullstack",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-aspnet-mvc,ASP.NET MVC,web,C#,monolith,monorepo,"ssr,mvc,fullstack,dotnet",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-express-api,Express REST API,web,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-fastapi,FastAPI,web,Python,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend,async",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-flask-api,Flask REST API,web,Python,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-django-rest,Django REST Framework,web,Python,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-rails-api,Rails API Mode,web,Ruby,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-gin-api,Gin API (Go),web,Go,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-spring-boot-api,Spring Boot API,web,Java,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-aspnet-api,ASP.NET Web API,web,C#,monolith,monorepo,"api,rest,backend,dotnet",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-react-django-separate,React + Django (Separate),web,"TypeScript,Python",spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,react,django",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-react-express-separate,React + Express (Separate),web,TypeScript,spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,react,node",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-vue-rails-separate,Vue + Rails (Separate),web,"TypeScript,Ruby",spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,vue,rails",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-vue-laravel-separate,Vue + Laravel (Separate),web,"TypeScript,PHP",spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,vue,laravel",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-angular-spring-separate,Angular + Spring Boot,web,"TypeScript,Java",spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,angular,spring",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-angular-dotnet-separate,Angular + .NET API,web,"TypeScript,C#",spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,angular,dotnet",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-svelte-go-separate,Svelte + Go API,web,"TypeScript,Go",spa-with-api,monorepo,"spa,svelte,go",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-nextjs-microservices-mono,Next.js Microservices (Monorepo),web,TypeScript,microservices,monorepo,"microservices,react,nx,turborepo",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-node-microservices-mono,Node.js Microservices (Monorepo),web,TypeScript,microservices,monorepo,"microservices,node,nx",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-go-microservices-mono,Go Microservices (Monorepo),web,Go,microservices,monorepo,"microservices,go,grpc",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-python-microservices-mono,Python Microservices (Monorepo),web,Python,microservices,monorepo,"microservices,python,fastapi",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-nextjs-microservices-poly,Next.js Microservices (Polyrepo),web,TypeScript,microservices,polyrepo,"microservices,react,kubernetes",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-node-microservices-poly,Node.js Microservices (Polyrepo),web,TypeScript,microservices,polyrepo,"microservices,node,kubernetes",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-go-microservices-poly,Go Microservices (Polyrepo),web,Go,microservices,polyrepo,"microservices,go,kubernetes,grpc",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-java-microservices-poly,Java Microservices (Polyrepo),web,Java,microservices,polyrepo,"microservices,spring,kubernetes",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-nextjs-vercel-serverless,Next.js Serverless (Vercel),web,TypeScript,serverless,monorepo,"serverless,vercel,edge",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-lambda-node-serverless,AWS Lambda (Node.js),web,TypeScript,serverless,monorepo,"serverless,aws,lambda",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-lambda-python-serverless,AWS Lambda (Python),web,Python,serverless,monorepo,"serverless,aws,lambda",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-lambda-go-serverless,AWS Lambda (Go),web,Go,serverless,monorepo,"serverless,aws,lambda",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-cloudflare-workers,Cloudflare Workers,web,TypeScript,serverless,monorepo,"serverless,cloudflare,edge",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-netlify-functions,Netlify Functions,web,TypeScript,serverless,monorepo,"serverless,netlify,edge",web-api-architecture.md,,
web-astro-jamstack,Astro Static Site,web,TypeScript,jamstack,monorepo,"static,ssg,content",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-hugo-jamstack,Hugo Static Site,web,Go,jamstack,monorepo,"static,ssg,content",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-gatsby-jamstack,Gatsby Static Site,web,TypeScript,jamstack,monorepo,"static,ssg,react",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-eleventy-jamstack,Eleventy Static Site,web,JavaScript,jamstack,monorepo,"static,ssg,content",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
web-jekyll-jamstack,Jekyll Static Site,web,Ruby,jamstack,monorepo,"static,ssg,content",web-fullstack-architecture.md,,
mobile-swift-native,iOS Native (Swift),mobile,Swift,native,monorepo,"ios,native,xcode,uikit",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-swiftui-native,iOS Native (SwiftUI),mobile,Swift,native,monorepo,"ios,native,xcode,swiftui",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-kotlin-native,Android Native (Kotlin),mobile,Kotlin,native,monorepo,"android,native,android-studio",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-compose-native,Android Native (Compose),mobile,Kotlin,native,monorepo,"android,native,compose",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-react-native,React Native,mobile,TypeScript,cross-platform,monorepo,"cross-platform,react,expo",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-flutter,Flutter,mobile,Dart,cross-platform,monorepo,"cross-platform,flutter,material",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-xamarin,Xamarin,mobile,C#,cross-platform,monorepo,"cross-platform,xamarin,dotnet",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-ionic-hybrid,Ionic Hybrid,mobile,TypeScript,hybrid,monorepo,"hybrid,ionic,capacitor",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-capacitor-hybrid,Capacitor Hybrid,mobile,TypeScript,hybrid,monorepo,"hybrid,capacitor,webview",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-cordova-hybrid,Cordova Hybrid,mobile,JavaScript,hybrid,monorepo,"hybrid,cordova,webview",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
mobile-pwa,Progressive Web App,mobile,TypeScript,pwa,monorepo,"pwa,service-worker,offline",mobile-app-architecture.md,,
game-unity-3d,Unity 3D,game,C#,monolith,monorepo,"3d,unity,game-engine",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-unity-guide.md
game-unreal-3d,Unreal Engine 3D,game,"C++,Blueprint",monolith,monorepo,"3d,unreal,aaa",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-unreal-guide.md
game-godot-3d,Godot 3D,game,GDScript,monolith,monorepo,"3d,godot,open-source",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-godot-guide.md
game-custom-3d-cpp,Custom 3D Engine (C++),game,C++,monolith,monorepo,"3d,custom,opengl",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-general-guide.md
game-custom-3d-rust,Custom 3D Engine (Rust),game,Rust,monolith,monorepo,"3d,custom,vulkan",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-general-guide.md
game-unity-2d,Unity 2D,game,C#,monolith,monorepo,"2d,unity,game-engine",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-unity-guide.md
game-godot-2d,Godot 2D,game,GDScript,monolith,monorepo,"2d,godot,open-source",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-godot-guide.md
game-gamemaker,GameMaker,game,GML,monolith,monorepo,"2d,gamemaker,indie",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-general-guide.md
game-phaser,Phaser (Web),game,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"2d,phaser,html5",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-web-guide.md
game-pixijs,PixiJS (Web),game,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"2d,pixijs,canvas",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-web-guide.md
game-threejs,Three.js (Web),game,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"3d,threejs,webgl",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-web-guide.md
game-babylonjs,Babylon.js (Web),game,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"3d,babylonjs,webgl",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-web-guide.md
game-text-python,Text-Based (Python),game,Python,monolith,monorepo,"text,roguelike",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-general-guide.md
game-text-js,Text-Based (JavaScript),game,JavaScript,monolith,monorepo,"text,interactive-fiction",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-general-guide.md
game-text-cpp,Text-Based (C++),game,C++,monolith,monorepo,"text,roguelike,mud",game-engine-architecture.md,,game-engine-general-guide.md
backend-express-rest,Express REST,backend,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"rest,express",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-fastapi-rest,FastAPI REST,backend,Python,monolith,monorepo,"rest,fastapi,async",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-django-rest-fw,Django REST Framework,backend,Python,monolith,monorepo,"rest,django",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-flask-rest,Flask REST,backend,Python,monolith,monorepo,"rest,flask,lightweight",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-spring-boot-rest,Spring Boot REST,backend,Java,monolith,monorepo,"rest,spring,enterprise",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-gin-rest,Gin REST (Go),backend,Go,monolith,monorepo,"rest,gin,performance",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-actix-rest,Actix Web (Rust),backend,Rust,monolith,monorepo,"rest,actix,performance",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-rails-api,Rails API,backend,Ruby,monolith,monorepo,"rest,rails",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-apollo-graphql,Apollo GraphQL,backend,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"graphql,apollo",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-hasura-graphql,Hasura GraphQL,backend,any,monolith,monorepo,"graphql,hasura,postgres",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-strawberry-graphql,Strawberry GraphQL (Python),backend,Python,monolith,monorepo,"graphql,strawberry,async",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-graphql-go,gqlgen (Go),backend,Go,monolith,monorepo,"graphql,gqlgen,type-safe",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-grpc-go,gRPC Service (Go),backend,Go,monolith,monorepo,"grpc,protobuf",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-grpc-node,gRPC Service (Node.js),backend,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"grpc,protobuf",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-grpc-rust,gRPC Service (Rust),backend,Rust,monolith,monorepo,"grpc,tonic",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-grpc-java,gRPC Service (Java),backend,Java,monolith,monorepo,"grpc,protobuf",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-socketio-realtime,Socket.IO Realtime,backend,TypeScript,monolith,monorepo,"realtime,socketio",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-phoenix-realtime,Phoenix Channels,backend,Elixir,monolith,monorepo,"realtime,phoenix",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-ably-realtime,Ably Realtime,backend,any,monolith,monorepo,"realtime,ably,managed",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-pusher-realtime,Pusher Realtime,backend,any,monolith,monorepo,"realtime,pusher,managed",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-kafka-event,Kafka Event-Driven,backend,"Java,Go,Python",event-driven,monorepo,"event-driven,kafka,streaming",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-rabbitmq-event,RabbitMQ Event-Driven,backend,"Python,Go,Node",event-driven,monorepo,"event-driven,rabbitmq,amqp",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-nats-event,NATS Event-Driven,backend,Go,event-driven,monorepo,"event-driven,nats,messaging",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-sqs-event,AWS SQS Event-Driven,backend,"Python,Node",event-driven,monorepo,"event-driven,aws,sqs",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-celery-batch,Celery Batch (Python),backend,Python,batch,monorepo,"batch,celery,redis,async",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-airflow-batch,Airflow Pipelines,backend,Python,batch,monorepo,"batch,airflow,orchestration,dags",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-prefect-batch,Prefect Pipelines,backend,Python,batch,monorepo,"batch,prefect,orchestration",backend-service-architecture.md,,
backend-temporal-batch,Temporal Workflows,backend,"Go,TypeScript",batch,monorepo,"batch,temporal,workflows",backend-service-architecture.md,,
embedded-freertos-esp32,FreeRTOS ESP32,embedded,C,rtos,monorepo,"iot,freertos,wifi",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-freertos-stm32,FreeRTOS STM32,embedded,C,rtos,monorepo,"stm32,freertos,arm,cortex",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-zephyr,Zephyr RTOS,embedded,C,rtos,monorepo,"zephyr,iot,bluetooth",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-nuttx,NuttX RTOS,embedded,C,rtos,monorepo,"nuttx,posix",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-arduino-bare,Arduino Bare Metal,embedded,"C,C++",bare-metal,monorepo,"arduino,bare-metal,avr",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-stm32-bare,STM32 Bare Metal,embedded,C,bare-metal,monorepo,"stm32,bare-metal,arm",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-pic-bare,PIC Microcontroller,embedded,C,bare-metal,monorepo,"pic,microchip",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-avr-bare,AVR Bare Metal,embedded,C,bare-metal,monorepo,"avr,atmega",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-raspberrypi,Raspberry Pi (Linux),embedded,Python,linux,monorepo,"raspberry-pi,gpio,python",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-beaglebone,BeagleBone (Linux),embedded,Python,linux,monorepo,"beaglebone,gpio",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-jetson,NVIDIA Jetson,embedded,Python,linux,monorepo,"jetson,ai,gpu",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-esp32-iot,ESP32 IoT Cloud,embedded,C,iot-cloud,monorepo,"esp32,mqtt,aws-iot",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-arduino-iot,Arduino IoT Cloud,embedded,"C,C++",iot-cloud,monorepo,"arduino,iot,mqtt,cloud",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
embedded-particle,Particle IoT,embedded,"C,C++",iot-cloud,monorepo,"particle,iot,cellular,cloud",embedded-firmware-architecture.md,,
library-npm-ts,NPM Library (TypeScript),library,TypeScript,library,monorepo,"npm,package,tsup",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-npm-js,NPM Library (JavaScript),library,JavaScript,library,monorepo,"npm,package,rollup",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-pypi,PyPI Package,library,Python,library,monorepo,"pypi,wheel,setuptools",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-cargo,Cargo Crate (Rust),library,Rust,library,monorepo,"cargo,crate,docs-rs",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-go-modules,Go Module,library,Go,library,monorepo,"go,pkg-go-dev",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-maven-java,Maven Library (Java),library,Java,library,monorepo,"maven,jar,central",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-nuget-csharp,NuGet Package (C#),library,C#,library,monorepo,"nuget,dotnet,package",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-cpp-cmake,C++ Library (CMake),library,C++,library,monorepo,"cpp,conan,vcpkg",library-package-architecture.md,,
library-c-shared,C Shared Library,library,C,library,monorepo,"c,header-only",library-package-architecture.md,,
cli-node-simple,CLI Tool (Node.js),cli,TypeScript,cli,monorepo,"cli,commander,yargs",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-python-simple,CLI Tool (Python),cli,Python,cli,monorepo,"cli,click,argparse",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-go-simple,CLI Tool (Go),cli,Go,cli,monorepo,"cli,cobra,single-binary",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-rust-simple,CLI Tool (Rust),cli,Rust,cli,monorepo,"cli,clap,single-binary",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-node-interactive,Interactive CLI (Node.js),cli,TypeScript,cli-interactive,monorepo,"cli,ink,blessed",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-python-interactive,Interactive CLI (Python),cli,Python,cli-interactive,monorepo,"cli,rich,textual,prompt-toolkit",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-rust-interactive,Interactive TUI (Rust),cli,Rust,cli-interactive,monorepo,"cli,ratatui,crossterm",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-go-interactive,Interactive TUI (Go),cli,Go,cli-interactive,monorepo,"cli,bubbletea,charm",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-node-daemon,CLI with Daemon (Node.js),cli,TypeScript,cli-daemon,monorepo,"cli,service,systemd",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-python-daemon,CLI with Daemon (Python),cli,Python,cli-daemon,monorepo,"cli,service,systemd",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
cli-go-daemon,CLI with Service (Go),cli,Go,cli-daemon,monorepo,"cli,service,systemd",cli-tool-architecture.md,,
desktop-electron,Electron App,desktop,TypeScript,desktop,monorepo,"electron,cross-platform,chromium",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-tauri,Tauri App,desktop,"TypeScript,Rust",desktop,monorepo,"tauri,rust,webview,lightweight",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-wails,Wails App (Go),desktop,"TypeScript,Go",desktop,monorepo,"wails,go,webview",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-qt-cpp,Qt Desktop (C++),desktop,C++,desktop,monorepo,"qt,cpp,native,cross-platform",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-qt-python,Qt Desktop (Python),desktop,Python,desktop,monorepo,"qt,python,pyside6",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-dotnet-wpf,WPF Desktop (.NET),desktop,C#,desktop,monorepo,"dotnet,windows,xaml",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-dotnet-maui,MAUI Desktop (.NET),desktop,C#,desktop,monorepo,"dotnet,cross-platform,xaml",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-swiftui-macos,SwiftUI macOS,desktop,Swift,desktop,monorepo,"swiftui,macos,native,declarative",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-gtk,GTK Desktop,desktop,"C,Python",desktop,monorepo,"gtk,linux,gnome",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
desktop-tkinter,Tkinter Desktop (Python),desktop,Python,desktop,monorepo,"tkinter,simple,cross-platform",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
data-etl-python,Python ETL,data,Python,pipeline,monorepo,"etl,pandas,dask",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-etl-spark,Spark ETL,data,"Scala,Python",pipeline,monorepo,"etl,spark,big-data,pyspark",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-dbt,dbt Transformations,data,SQL,pipeline,monorepo,"etl,dbt,sql,analytics-engineering",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-ml-training,ML Training Pipeline,data,Python,pipeline,monorepo,"ml,mlflow,pytorch,tensorflow",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-ml-inference,ML Inference Service,data,Python,pipeline,monorepo,"ml,serving,triton,torchserve",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-kubeflow,Kubeflow Pipelines,data,Python,pipeline,monorepo,"ml,kubeflow,kubernetes,pipelines",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-analytics-superset,Superset Analytics,data,Python,analytics,monorepo,"analytics,superset,dashboards,bi",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-analytics-metabase,Metabase Analytics,data,any,analytics,monorepo,"analytics,metabase,dashboards,bi",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-looker,Looker/LookML,data,LookML,analytics,monorepo,"analytics,looker,bi,enterprise",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-warehouse-snowflake,Snowflake Warehouse,data,SQL,warehouse,monorepo,"warehouse,snowflake,cloud,dbt",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-warehouse-bigquery,BigQuery Warehouse,data,SQL,warehouse,monorepo,"warehouse,bigquery,gcp,dbt",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-warehouse-redshift,Redshift Warehouse,data,SQL,warehouse,monorepo,"warehouse,redshift,aws,dbt",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-streaming-kafka,Kafka Streaming,data,"Java,Scala",streaming,monorepo,"streaming,kafka,confluent,real-time",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-streaming-flink,Flink Streaming,data,"Java,Python",streaming,monorepo,"streaming,flink,stateful,real-time",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
data-streaming-spark,Spark Streaming,data,"Scala,Python",streaming,monorepo,"streaming,spark,micro-batch",data-pipeline-architecture.md,,
extension-chrome,Chrome Extension,extension,TypeScript,extension,monorepo,"browser,extension,manifest-v3",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
extension-firefox,Firefox Extension,extension,TypeScript,extension,monorepo,"browser,webextensions,manifest-v2",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
extension-safari,Safari Extension,extension,Swift,extension,monorepo,"browser,safari,xcode,app-extension",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
extension-vscode,VS Code Extension,extension,TypeScript,extension,monorepo,"vscode,ide,language-server",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
extension-intellij,IntelliJ Plugin,extension,Kotlin,extension,monorepo,"jetbrains,plugin,ide",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
extension-sublime,Sublime Text Plugin,extension,Python,extension,monorepo,"sublime,editor",desktop-app-architecture.md,,
infra-terraform,Terraform IaC,infra,HCL,iac,monorepo,"terraform,iac,cloud,multi-cloud",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-pulumi,Pulumi IaC,infra,"TypeScript,Python,Go",iac,monorepo,"pulumi,iac,cloud,programming",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-cdk-aws,AWS CDK,infra,TypeScript,iac,monorepo,"cdk,iac,cloudformation",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-cdktf,CDK for Terraform,infra,TypeScript,iac,monorepo,"cdktf,iac,typescript",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-k8s-operator,Kubernetes Operator,infra,Go,k8s-operator,monorepo,"kubernetes,operator,controller,crd",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-helm-charts,Helm Charts,infra,YAML,k8s-package,monorepo,"kubernetes,helm,package,templating",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-ansible,Ansible Playbooks,infra,YAML,config-mgmt,monorepo,"ansible,automation,idempotent",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-chef,Chef Cookbooks,infra,Ruby,config-mgmt,monorepo,"chef,automation,ruby-dsl",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-puppet,Puppet Manifests,infra,Puppet,config-mgmt,monorepo,"puppet,automation,declarative",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
infra-saltstack,SaltStack,infra,YAML,config-mgmt,monorepo,"salt,automation,python",infrastructure-architecture.md,,
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/backend-service-architecture.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# {{TITLE}} Architecture Document
**Project:** {{project_name}}
**Date:** {{date}}
**Author:** {{user_name}}
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{{devops_specialist_section}}
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{{security_specialist_section}}
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## Specialist Sections
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<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/cli-tool-architecture.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# {{TITLE}} Architecture Document
**Project:** {{project_name}}
**Date:** {{date}}
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<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/data-pipeline-architecture.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# {{TITLE}} Architecture Document
**Project:** {{project_name}}
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## Specialist Sections
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]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/desktop-app-architecture.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# {{TITLE}} Architecture Document
**Project:** {{project_name}}
**Date:** {{date}}
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## 7. Proposed Source Tree
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## 9. Deployment and Operations
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{{devops_specialist_section}}
## 10. Security
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## Specialist Sections
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]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/embedded-firmware-architecture.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# {{TITLE}} Architecture Document
**Project:** {{project_name}}
**Date:** {{date}}
**Author:** {{user_name}}
## Executive Summary
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## 1. Technology Stack and Decisions
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## 2. Architecture Overview
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## 3. Data Architecture
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## 4. Component and Integration Overview
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## 5. Architecture Decision Records
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## 7. Proposed Source Tree
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## 9. Deployment and Operations
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{{devops_specialist_section}}
## 10. Security
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## Specialist Sections
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]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-architecture.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Game Architecture Document
**Project:** {{project_name}}
**Date:** {{date}}
**Author:** {{user_name}}
## Executive Summary
{{executive_summary}}
## 1. Technology Stack and Decisions
### 1.1 Technology and Library Decision Table
| Category | Technology | Version | Justification |
| ------------------ | ---------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| Game Engine | {{game_engine}} | {{engine_version}} | {{engine_justification}} |
| Language | {{language}} | {{language_version}} | {{language_justification}} |
| Rendering Pipeline | {{rendering_pipeline}} | {{rendering_version}} | {{rendering_justification}} |
| Physics Engine | {{physics}} | {{physics_version}} | {{physics_justification}} |
| Audio Middleware | {{audio}} | {{audio_version}} | {{audio_justification}} |
| Networking | {{networking}} | {{networking_version}} | {{networking_justification}} |
| Backend Services | {{backend}} | {{backend_version}} | {{backend_justification}} |
| Analytics | {{analytics}} | {{analytics_version}} | {{analytics_justification}} |
{{additional_tech_stack_rows}}
## 2. Engine and Platform
### 2.1 Game Engine Choice
{{engine_choice}}
### 2.2 Target Platforms
{{target_platforms}}
### 2.3 Rendering Pipeline
{{rendering_pipeline_details}}
## 3. Game Architecture
### 3.1 Architecture Pattern
{{architecture_pattern}}
### 3.2 Scene Structure
{{scene_structure}}
### 3.3 Game Loop
{{game_loop}}
### 3.4 State Machine
{{state_machine}}
## 4. Scene and Level Architecture
### 4.1 Scene Organization
{{scene_organization}}
### 4.2 Level Streaming
{{level_streaming}}
### 4.3 Additive Loading
{{additive_loading}}
### 4.4 Memory Management
{{memory_management}}
## 5. Gameplay Systems
### 5.1 Player Controller
{{player_controller}}
### 5.2 Game State Management
{{game_state}}
### 5.3 Inventory System
{{inventory}}
### 5.4 Progression System
{{progression}}
### 5.5 Combat/Core Mechanics
{{core_mechanics}}
## 6. Rendering Architecture
### 6.1 Rendering Pipeline
{{rendering_pipeline_architecture}}
### 6.2 Shaders
{{shaders}}
### 6.3 Post-Processing
{{post_processing}}
### 6.4 LOD System
{{lod_system}}
### 6.5 Occlusion Culling
{{occlusion}}
## 7. Asset Pipeline
### 7.1 Model Import
{{model_import}}
### 7.2 Textures and Materials
{{textures_materials}}
### 7.3 Asset Bundles/Addressables
{{asset_bundles}}
### 7.4 Asset Optimization
{{asset_optimization}}
## 8. Animation System
{{animation_system}}
## 9. Physics and Collision
{{physics_collision}}
## 10. Multiplayer Architecture
{{multiplayer_section}}
**Note:** {{multiplayer_note}}
## 11. Backend Services
{{backend_services}}
**Note:** {{backend_note}}
## 12. Save System
{{save_system}}
## 13. UI/UX Architecture
{{ui_architecture}}
## 14. Audio Architecture
{{audio_architecture}}
{{audio_specialist_section}}
## 15. Component and Integration Overview
{{component_overview}}
## 16. Architecture Decision Records
{{architecture_decisions}}
**Key decisions:**
- Why this engine? {{engine_decision}}
- ECS vs OOP? {{ecs_vs_oop_decision}}
- Multiplayer approach? {{multiplayer_decision}}
- Asset streaming? {{asset_streaming_decision}}
## 17. Implementation Guidance
### 17.1 Prefab/Blueprint Conventions
{{prefab_conventions}}
### 17.2 Coding Patterns
{{coding_patterns}}
### 17.3 Performance Guidelines
{{performance_guidelines}}
## 18. Proposed Source Tree
```
{{source_tree}}
```
**Critical folders:**
- {{critical_folder_1}}: {{critical_folder_1_description}}
- {{critical_folder_2}}: {{critical_folder_2_description}}
- {{critical_folder_3}}: {{critical_folder_3_description}}
## 19. Performance and Optimization
{{performance_optimization}}
{{performance_specialist_section}}
## 20. Testing Strategy
{{testing_strategy}}
## 21. Build and Distribution
{{build_distribution}}
---
## Specialist Sections
{{specialist_sections_summary}}
### Recommended Specialists:
- {{audio_specialist_recommendation}}
- {{performance_specialist_recommendation}}
- {{multiplayer_specialist_recommendation}}
- {{monetization_specialist_recommendation}}
---
_Generated using BMad Method Solution Architecture workflow_
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-godot-guide.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Godot Game Engine Architecture Guide
This guide provides Godot-specific guidance for solution architecture generation.
---
## Godot-Specific Questions
### 1. Godot Version and Language Strategy
**Ask:**
- Which Godot version? (3.x, 4.x)
- Language preference? (GDScript only, C# only, or Mixed GDScript+C#)
- Target platform(s)? (PC, Mobile, Web, Console)
**Guidance:**
- **Godot 4.x**: Modern, Vulkan renderer, better 3D, C# improving
- **Godot 3.x**: Stable, mature ecosystem, OpenGL
- **GDScript**: Python-like, fast iteration, integrated with editor
- **C#**: Better performance for complex systems, familiar to Unity devs
- **Mixed**: GDScript for game logic, C# for performance-critical (physics, AI)
**Record ADR:** Godot version and language strategy
---
### 2. Node-Based Architecture
**Ask:**
- Scene composition strategy? (Nested scenes, scene inheritance, or flat hierarchy)
- Node organization patterns? (By feature, by type, or hybrid)
**Guidance:**
- **Scenes as Prefabs**: Each reusable entity is a scene (Player.tscn, Enemy.tscn)
- **Scene Inheritance**: Extend base scenes for variations (BaseEnemy → FlyingEnemy)
- **Node Signals**: Use built-in signal system for decoupled communication
- **Autoload Singletons**: For global managers (GameManager, AudioManager)
**Godot Pattern:**
```gdscript
# Player.gd
extends CharacterBody2D
signal health_changed(new_health)
signal died
@export var max_health: int = 100
var health: int = max_health
func take_damage(amount: int) -> 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<T>()` | `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
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-unity-guide.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Unity Game Engine Architecture Guide
This guide provides Unity-specific guidance for solution architecture generation.
---
## Unity-Specific Questions
### 1. Unity Version and Render Pipeline
**Ask:**
- Which Unity version are you targeting? (2021 LTS, 2022 LTS, 2023+, 6000+)
- Which render pipeline? (Built-in, URP Universal Render Pipeline, HDRP High Definition)
- Target platform(s)? (PC, Mobile, Console, WebGL)
**Guidance:**
- **2021/2022 LTS**: Stable, well-supported, good for production
- **URP**: Best for mobile and cross-platform (lower overhead)
- **HDRP**: High-fidelity graphics for PC/console only
- **Built-in**: Legacy, avoid for new projects
**Record ADR:** Unity version and render pipeline choice
---
### 2. Architecture Pattern
**Ask:**
- Component-based MonoBehaviour architecture? (Unity standard)
- ECS (Entity Component System) for performance-critical systems?
- Hybrid (MonoBehaviour + ECS where needed)?
**Guidance:**
- **MonoBehaviour**: Standard, easy to use, good for most games
- **ECS/DOTS**: High performance, steep learning curve, use for massive scale (1000s of entities)
- **Hybrid**: MonoBehaviour for gameplay, ECS for particles/crowds
**Record ADR:** Architecture pattern choice and justification
---
### 3. Data Management Strategy
**Ask:**
- ScriptableObjects for data-driven design?
- JSON/XML config files?
- Addressables for asset management?
**Guidance:**
- **ScriptableObjects**: Unity-native, inspector-friendly, good for game data (enemies, items, levels)
- **Addressables**: Essential for large games, enables asset streaming and DLC
- Avoid Resources folder (deprecated pattern)
**Record ADR:** Data management approach
---
## Unity-Specific Architecture Sections
### Game Systems Architecture
**Components to define:**
- **Player Controller**: Character movement, input handling
- **Camera System**: Follow camera, cinemachine usage
- **Game State Manager**: Scene transitions, game modes, pause/resume
- **Save System**: PlayerPrefs vs JSON vs Cloud Save
- **Input System**: New Input System vs Legacy
**Unity-specific patterns:**
```csharp
// Singleton GameManager pattern
public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public static GameManager Instance { get; private set; }
void Awake()
{
if (Instance == null) Instance = this;
else Destroy(gameObject);
DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
}
}
// ScriptableObject data pattern
[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "EnemyData", menuName = "Game/Enemy")]
public class EnemyData : ScriptableObject
{
public string enemyName;
public int health;
public float speed;
public GameObject prefab;
}
```
---
### Unity Events and Communication
**Ask:**
- UnityEvents for inspector-wired connections?
- C# Events for code-based pub/sub?
- Message system for decoupled communication?
**Guidance:**
- **UnityEvents**: Good for designer-configurable connections
- **C# Events**: Better performance, type-safe
- **Avoid** FindObjectOfType and GetComponent in Update()
**Pattern:**
```csharp
// Event-driven damage system
public class HealthSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
public UnityEvent<int> 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>();
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
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/templates/game-engine-web-guide.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Web Game Engine Architecture Guide
This guide provides web game engine-specific guidance (Phaser, PixiJS, Three.js, Babylon.js) for solution architecture generation.
---
## Web Game-Specific Questions
### 1. Engine and Technology Selection
**Ask:**
- Which engine? (Phaser 3, PixiJS, Three.js, Babylon.js, custom Canvas/WebGL)
- TypeScript or JavaScript?
- Build tool? (Vite, Webpack, Rollup, Parcel)
- Target platform(s)? (Desktop web, mobile web, PWA, Cordova/Capacitor wrapper)
**Guidance:**
- **Phaser 3**: Full-featured 2D game framework, great for beginners
- **PixiJS**: 2D rendering library, more low-level than Phaser
- **Three.js**: 3D graphics library, mature ecosystem
- **Babylon.js**: Complete 3D game engine, WebXR support
- **TypeScript**: Recommended for all web games (type safety, better tooling)
- **Vite**: Modern, fast, HMR - best for development
**Record ADR:** Engine selection and build tooling
---
### 2. Architecture Pattern
**Ask:**
- Scene-based architecture? (Phaser scenes, custom scene manager)
- ECS (Entity Component System)? (Libraries: bitECS, ecsy)
- State management? (Redux, Zustand, custom FSM)
**Guidance:**
- **Scene-based**: Natural for Phaser, good for level-based games
- **ECS**: Better performance for large entity counts (100s+)
- **FSM**: Good for simple state transitions (menu → game → gameover)
**Phaser Pattern:**
```typescript
// MainMenuScene.ts
export class MainMenuScene extends Phaser.Scene {
constructor() {
super({ key: 'MainMenu' });
}
create() {
this.add.text(400, 300, 'Main Menu', { fontSize: '32px' });
const startButton = this.add
.text(400, 400, 'Start Game', { fontSize: '24px' })
.setInteractive()
.on('pointerdown', () => {
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
]]></file>
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<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/backend-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Backend/API Service Architecture Questions
## Service Type and Architecture
1. **Service architecture:**
- Monolithic API (single service)
- Microservices (multiple independent services)
- Modular monolith (single deployment, modular code)
- Serverless (AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions, etc.)
- Hybrid
2. **API paradigm:**
- REST
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- WebSocket (real-time)
- Server-Sent Events (SSE)
- Message-based (event-driven)
- Multiple paradigms
3. **Communication patterns:**
- Synchronous (request-response)
- Asynchronous (message queues)
- Event-driven (pub/sub)
- Webhooks
- Multiple patterns
## Framework and Language
4. **Backend language/framework:**
- Node.js (Express, Fastify, NestJS, Hono)
- Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask)
- Go (Gin, Echo, Chi, standard lib)
- Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus)
- C# (.NET Core, ASP.NET)
- Ruby (Rails, Sinatra)
- Rust (Axum, Actix, Rocket)
- PHP (Laravel, Symfony)
- Elixir (Phoenix)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
5. **GraphQL implementation (if applicable):**
- Apollo Server
- GraphQL Yoga
- Hasura (auto-generated)
- Postgraphile
- Custom
- Not using GraphQL
6. **gRPC implementation (if applicable):**
- Protocol Buffers
- Language-specific gRPC libraries
- Not using gRPC
## Database and Data Layer
7. **Primary database:**
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL/MariaDB
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB (AWS)
- Firestore (Google)
- CockroachDB
- Cassandra
- Redis (as primary)
- Multiple databases (polyglot persistence)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
8. **Database access pattern:**
- ORM (Prisma, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy, Hibernate, etc.)
- Query builder (Knex, Kysely, jOOQ)
- Raw SQL
- Database SDK (Supabase, Firebase)
- Mix
9. **Caching layer:**
- Redis
- Memcached
- In-memory (application cache)
- CDN caching (for static responses)
- Database query cache
- None needed
10. **Read replicas:**
- Yes (separate read/write databases)
- No (single database)
- Planned for future
11. **Database sharding:**
- Yes (horizontal partitioning)
- No (single database)
- Planned for scale
## Authentication and Authorization
12. **Authentication method:**
- JWT (stateless)
- Session-based (stateful)
- OAuth2 provider (Auth0, Okta, Keycloak)
- API keys
- Mutual TLS (mTLS)
- Multiple methods
13. **Authorization pattern:**
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
- Access Control Lists (ACL)
- Custom logic
- None (open API)
14. **Identity provider:**
- Self-managed (own user database)
- Auth0
- AWS Cognito
- Firebase Auth
- Keycloak
- Azure AD / Entra ID
- Okta
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Message Queue and Event Streaming
15. **Message queue (if needed):**
- RabbitMQ
- Apache Kafka
- AWS SQS
- Google Pub/Sub
- Redis (pub/sub)
- NATS
- None needed
- Other: **\_\_\_**
16. **Event streaming (if needed):**
- Apache Kafka
- AWS Kinesis
- Azure Event Hubs
- Redis Streams
- None needed
17. **Background jobs:**
- Queue-based (Bull, Celery, Sidekiq)
- Cron-based (node-cron, APScheduler)
- Serverless functions (scheduled Lambda)
- None needed
## Service Communication (Microservices)
18. **Service mesh (if microservices):**
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Consul
- None (direct communication)
- Not applicable
19. **Service discovery:**
- Kubernetes DNS
- Consul
- etcd
- AWS Cloud Map
- Hardcoded (for now)
- Not applicable
20. **Inter-service communication:**
- HTTP/REST
- gRPC
- Message queue
- Event bus
- Not applicable
## API Design and Documentation
21. **API versioning:**
- URL versioning (/v1/, /v2/)
- Header versioning (Accept-Version)
- No versioning (single version)
- Semantic versioning
22. **API documentation:**
- OpenAPI/Swagger
- GraphQL introspection/playground
- Postman collections
- Custom docs
- README only
23. **API testing tools:**
- Postman
- Insomnia
- REST Client (VS Code)
- cURL examples
- Multiple tools
## Rate Limiting and Throttling
24. **Rate limiting:**
- Per-user/API key
- Per-IP
- Global rate limit
- Tiered (different limits per plan)
- None (internal API)
25. **Rate limit implementation:**
- Application-level (middleware)
- API Gateway
- Redis-based
- None
## Data Validation and Processing
26. **Request validation:**
- Schema validation (Zod, Joi, Yup, Pydantic)
- Manual validation
- Framework built-in
- None
27. **Data serialization:**
- JSON
- Protocol Buffers
- MessagePack
- XML
- Multiple formats
28. **File uploads (if applicable):**
- Direct to server (local storage)
- S3/Cloud storage
- Presigned URLs (client direct upload)
- None needed
## Error Handling and Resilience
29. **Error handling strategy:**
- Standard HTTP status codes
- Custom error codes
- RFC 7807 (Problem Details)
- GraphQL errors
- Mix
30. **Circuit breaker (for external services):**
- Yes (Hystrix, Resilience4j, Polly)
- No (direct calls)
- Not needed
31. **Retry logic:**
- Exponential backoff
- Fixed retries
- No retries
- Library-based (axios-retry, etc.)
32. **Graceful shutdown:**
- Yes (drain connections, finish requests)
- No (immediate shutdown)
## Observability
33. **Logging:**
- Structured logging (JSON)
- Plain text logs
- Library: (Winston, Pino, Logrus, Zap, etc.)
34. **Log aggregation:**
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Datadog
- Splunk
- CloudWatch Logs
- Loki + Grafana
- None (local logs)
35. **Metrics and Monitoring:**
- Prometheus
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Application Insights
- CloudWatch
- Grafana
- None
36. **Distributed tracing:**
- OpenTelemetry
- Jaeger
- Zipkin
- Datadog APM
- AWS X-Ray
- None
37. **Health checks:**
- Liveness probe (is service up?)
- Readiness probe (can accept traffic?)
- Startup probe
- Dependency checks (database, cache, etc.)
- None
38. **Alerting:**
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Slack/Discord webhooks
- Email
- Custom
- None
## Security
39. **HTTPS/TLS:**
- Required (HTTPS only)
- Optional (support both)
- Terminated at load balancer
40. **CORS configuration:**
- Specific origins (whitelist)
- All origins (open)
- None needed (same-origin clients)
41. **Security headers:**
- Helmet.js or equivalent
- Custom headers
- None (basic)
42. **Input sanitization:**
- SQL injection prevention (parameterized queries)
- XSS prevention
- CSRF protection
- All of the above
43. **Secrets management:**
- Environment variables
- AWS Secrets Manager
- HashiCorp Vault
- Azure Key Vault
- Kubernetes Secrets
- Doppler
- Other: **\_\_\_**
44. **Compliance requirements:**
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- SOC 2
- PCI DSS
- None
## Deployment and Infrastructure
45. **Deployment platform:**
- AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk)
- Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine)
- Azure (AKS, App Service, Container Instances)
- Kubernetes (self-hosted)
- Docker Swarm
- Heroku
- Railway
- Fly.io
- Vercel/Netlify (serverless)
- VPS (DigitalOcean, Linode)
- On-premise
- Other: **\_\_\_**
46. **Containerization:**
- Docker
- Podman
- Not containerized (direct deployment)
47. **Orchestration:**
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose (dev/small scale)
- AWS ECS
- Nomad
- None (single server)
48. **Infrastructure as Code:**
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Pulumi
- Bicep (Azure)
- CDK (AWS)
- Ansible
- Manual setup
49. **Load balancing:**
- Application Load Balancer (AWS ALB, Azure App Gateway)
- Nginx
- HAProxy
- Kubernetes Ingress
- Traefik
- Platform-managed
- None (single instance)
50. **Auto-scaling:**
- Horizontal (add more instances)
- Vertical (increase instance size)
- Serverless (automatic)
- None (fixed capacity)
## CI/CD
51. **CI/CD platform:**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- Jenkins
- AWS CodePipeline
- Azure DevOps
- Google Cloud Build
- Other: **\_\_\_**
52. **Deployment strategy:**
- Rolling deployment
- Blue-green deployment
- Canary deployment
- Recreate (downtime)
- Serverless (automatic)
53. **Testing in CI/CD:**
- Unit tests
- Integration tests
- E2E tests
- Load tests
- Security scans
- All of the above
## Performance
54. **Performance requirements:**
- High throughput (1000+ req/s)
- Moderate (100-1000 req/s)
- Low (< 100 req/s)
55. **Latency requirements:**
- Ultra-low (< 10ms)
- Low (< 100ms)
- Moderate (< 500ms)
- No specific requirement
56. **Connection pooling:**
- Database connection pool
- HTTP connection pool (for external APIs)
- None needed
57. **CDN (for static assets):**
- CloudFront
- Cloudflare
- Fastly
- None (dynamic only)
## Data and Storage
58. **File storage (if needed):**
- AWS S3
- Google Cloud Storage
- Azure Blob Storage
- MinIO (self-hosted)
- Local filesystem
- None needed
59. **Search functionality:**
- Elasticsearch
- Algolia
- Meilisearch
- Typesense
- Database full-text search
- None needed
60. **Data backup:**
- Automated database backups
- Point-in-time recovery
- Manual backups
- Cloud-provider managed
- None (dev/test only)
## Additional Features
61. **Webhooks (outgoing):**
- Yes (notify external systems)
- No
62. **Scheduled tasks/Cron jobs:**
- Yes (cleanup, reports, etc.)
- No
63. **Multi-tenancy:**
- Single tenant
- Multi-tenant (shared database)
- Multi-tenant (separate databases)
- Not applicable
64. **Internationalization (i18n):**
- Multiple languages/locales
- English only
- Not applicable
65. **Audit logging:**
- Track all changes (who, what, when)
- Critical operations only
- None
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/cli-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Command-Line Tool Architecture Questions
## Language and Runtime
1. **Primary language:**
- Go (compiled, single binary, great for CLIs)
- Rust (compiled, safe, performant)
- Python (interpreted, easy distribution via pip)
- Node.js/TypeScript (npm distribution)
- Bash/Shell script (lightweight, ubiquitous)
- Ruby (gem distribution)
- Java/Kotlin (JVM, jar)
- C/C++ (compiled, fastest)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
2. **Target platforms:**
- Linux only
- macOS only
- Windows only
- Linux + macOS
- All three (Linux + macOS + Windows)
- Specific Unix variants: **\_\_\_**
3. **Distribution method:**
- Single binary (compiled)
- Script (interpreted, needs runtime)
- Package manager (npm, pip, gem, cargo, etc.)
- Installer (brew, apt, yum, scoop, chocolatey)
- Container (Docker)
- Multiple methods
## CLI Architecture
4. **Command structure:**
- Single command (e.g., `grep pattern file`)
- Subcommands (e.g., `git commit`, `docker run`)
- Hybrid (main command + subcommands)
- Interactive shell (REPL)
5. **Argument parsing library:**
- Go: cobra, cli, flag
- Rust: clap, structopt
- Python: argparse, click, typer
- Node: commander, yargs, oclif
- Bash: getopts, manual parsing
- Other: **\_\_\_**
6. **Interactive mode:**
- Non-interactive only (runs and exits)
- Interactive prompts (inquirer, survey, etc.)
- REPL/shell mode
- Both modes supported
7. **Long-running process:**
- Quick execution (completes immediately)
- Long-running (daemon/service)
- Can run in background
- Watch mode (monitors and reacts)
## Input/Output
8. **Input sources:**
- Command-line arguments
- Flags/options
- Environment variables
- Config file (JSON, YAML, TOML, INI)
- Interactive prompts
- Stdin (pipe input)
- Multiple sources
9. **Output format:**
- Plain text (human-readable)
- JSON
- YAML
- XML
- CSV/TSV
- Table format
- User-selectable format
- Multiple formats
10. **Output destination:**
- Stdout (standard output)
- Stderr (errors only)
- File output
- Multiple destinations
- Quiet mode (no output)
11. **Colored output:**
- ANSI color codes
- Auto-detect TTY (color when terminal, plain when piped)
- User-configurable (--color flag)
- No colors (plain text only)
12. **Progress indication:**
- Progress bars (for long operations)
- Spinners (for waiting)
- Step-by-step output
- Verbose/debug logging
- Silent mode option
- None needed (fast operations)
## Configuration
13. **Configuration file:**
- Required (must exist)
- Optional (defaults if missing)
- Not needed
- Generated on first run
14. **Config file format:**
- JSON
- YAML
- TOML
- INI
- Custom format
- Multiple formats supported
15. **Config file location:**
- Current directory (project-specific)
- User home directory (~/.config, ~/.myapp)
- System-wide (/etc/)
- User-specified path
- Multiple locations (cascade/merge)
16. **Environment variables:**
- Used for configuration
- Used for secrets/credentials
- Used for runtime behavior
- Not used
## Data and Storage
17. **Persistent data:**
- Cache (temporary, can be deleted)
- State (must persist)
- User data (important)
- No persistent data needed
18. **Data storage location:**
- Standard OS locations (XDG Base Directory, AppData, etc.)
- Current directory
- User-specified
- Temporary directory
19. **Database/Data format:**
- SQLite
- JSON files
- Key-value store (BoltDB, etc.)
- CSV/plain files
- Remote database
- None needed
## Execution Model
20. **Execution pattern:**
- Run once and exit
- Watch mode (monitor changes)
- Server/daemon mode
- Cron-style (scheduled)
- Pipeline component (part of Unix pipeline)
21. **Concurrency:**
- Single-threaded (sequential)
- Multi-threaded (parallel operations)
- Async I/O
- Not applicable
22. **Signal handling:**
- Graceful shutdown (SIGTERM, SIGINT)
- Cleanup on exit
- Not needed (quick exit)
## Networking (if applicable)
23. **Network operations:**
- HTTP client (REST API calls)
- WebSocket client
- SSH client
- Database connections
- Other protocols: **\_\_\_**
- No networking
24. **Authentication (if API calls):**
- API keys (env vars, config)
- OAuth2 flow
- Username/password
- Certificate-based
- None needed
## Error Handling
25. **Error reporting:**
- Stderr with error messages
- Exit codes (0 = success, non-zero = error)
- Detailed error messages
- Stack traces (debug mode)
- Simple messages (user-friendly)
26. **Exit codes:**
- Standard (0 = success, 1 = error)
- Multiple exit codes (different error types)
- Documented exit codes
27. **Logging:**
- Log levels (debug, info, warn, error)
- Log file output
- Stderr output
- Configurable verbosity (--verbose, --quiet)
- No logging (simple tool)
## Piping and Integration
28. **Stdin support:**
- Reads from stdin (pipe input)
- Optional stdin (file or stdin)
- No stdin support
29. **Pipeline behavior:**
- Filter (reads stdin, writes stdout)
- Generator (no input, outputs data)
- Consumer (reads input, no stdout)
- Transformer (both input and output)
30. **Shell completion:**
- Bash completion
- Zsh completion
- Fish completion
- PowerShell completion
- All shells
- None
## Distribution and Installation
31. **Package managers:**
- Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
- apt (Debian/Ubuntu)
- yum/dnf (RHEL/Fedora)
- Chocolatey/Scoop (Windows)
- npm/yarn (Node.js)
- pip (Python)
- cargo (Rust)
- Multiple managers
- Manual install only
32. **Installation method:**
- Download binary (GitHub Releases)
- Install script (curl | bash)
- Package manager
- Build from source
- Container image
- Multiple methods
33. **Binary distribution:**
- Single binary (statically linked)
- Multiple binaries (per platform)
- With dependencies (bundled)
34. **Cross-compilation:**
- Yes (build for all platforms from one machine)
- No (need platform-specific builds)
## Updates
35. **Update mechanism:**
- Self-update command
- Package manager update
- Manual download
- No updates (stable tool)
36. **Version checking:**
- Check for new versions on run
- --version flag
- No version tracking
## Documentation
37. **Help documentation:**
- --help flag (inline help)
- Man page
- Online docs
- README only
- All of the above
38. **Examples/Tutorials:**
- Built-in examples (--examples)
- Online documentation
- README with examples
- None (self-explanatory)
## Testing
39. **Testing approach:**
- Unit tests
- Integration tests (full CLI execution)
- Snapshot testing (output comparison)
- Manual testing
- All of the above
40. **CI/CD:**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Travis CI
- Cross-platform testing
- Manual builds
## Performance
41. **Performance requirements:**
- Must be fast (< 100ms)
- Moderate (< 1s)
- Can be slow (long-running tasks)
42. **Memory usage:**
- Minimal (small files/data)
- Streaming (large files, low memory)
- Can use significant memory
## Special Features
43. **Watch mode:**
- Monitor files/directories for changes
- Auto-reload/re-run
- Not needed
44. **Dry-run mode:**
- Preview changes without applying
- Not applicable
45. **Verbose/Debug mode:**
- --verbose flag (detailed output)
- --debug flag (even more detail)
- Not needed
46. **Plugins/Extensions:**
- Plugin system (user can extend)
- Monolithic (no plugins)
- Planned for future
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/data-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Data/Analytics/ML Project Architecture Questions
## Project Type and Scope
1. **Primary project focus:**
- ETL/Data Pipeline (move and transform data)
- Data Analytics (BI, dashboards, reports)
- Machine Learning Training (build models)
- Machine Learning Inference (serve predictions)
- Data Warehouse/Lake (centralized data storage)
- Real-time Stream Processing
- Data Science Research/Exploration
- Multiple focuses
2. **Scale of data:**
- Small (< 1GB, single machine)
- Medium (1GB - 1TB, can fit in memory with careful handling)
- Large (1TB - 100TB, distributed processing needed)
- Very Large (> 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)
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/desktop-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Desktop Application Architecture Questions
## Framework and Platform
1. **Primary framework:**
- Electron (JavaScript/TypeScript, web tech, cross-platform)
- Tauri (Rust backend, web frontend, lightweight)
- .NET MAUI (C#, cross-platform, native UI)
- Qt (C++/Python, cross-platform, native)
- Flutter Desktop (Dart, cross-platform)
- JavaFX (Java, cross-platform)
- Swift/SwiftUI (macOS only)
- WPF/WinUI 3 (Windows only, C#)
- GTK (C/Python, Linux-focused)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
2. **Target platforms:**
- Windows only
- macOS only
- Linux only
- Windows + macOS
- Windows + macOS + Linux (full cross-platform)
- Specific Linux distros: **\_\_\_**
3. **UI approach:**
- Native UI (platform-specific controls)
- Web-based UI (HTML/CSS/JS in Electron/Tauri)
- Custom-drawn UI (Canvas/OpenGL)
- Hybrid (native shell + web content)
4. **Frontend framework (if web-based UI):**
- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Angular
- Vanilla JS
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Architecture
5. **Application architecture:**
- Single-process (all in one)
- Multi-process (main + renderer processes like Electron)
- Multi-threaded (background workers)
- Plugin-based (extensible architecture)
6. **Backend/Business logic:**
- Embedded in app (monolithic)
- Separate local service
- Connects to remote API
- Hybrid (local + remote)
7. **Database/Data storage:**
- SQLite (local embedded database)
- IndexedDB (if web-based)
- File-based storage (JSON, custom)
- LevelDB/RocksDB
- Remote database only
- No persistence needed
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## System Integration
8. **Operating system integration needs:**
- File system access (read/write user files)
- System tray/menu bar icon
- Native notifications
- Keyboard shortcuts (global hotkeys)
- Clipboard integration
- Drag-and-drop support
- Context menu integration
- File type associations
- URL scheme handling (deep linking)
- System dialogs (file picker, alerts)
- None needed (basic app)
9. **Hardware access:**
- Camera/Microphone
- USB devices
- Bluetooth
- Printers
- Scanners
- Serial ports
- GPU (for rendering/compute)
- None needed
10. **System permissions required:**
- Accessibility API (screen reading, input simulation)
- Location services
- Calendar/Contacts access
- Network monitoring
- Screen recording
- Full disk access
- None (sandboxed app)
## Updates and Distribution
11. **Auto-update mechanism:**
- Electron's autoUpdater
- Squirrel (Windows/Mac)
- Sparkle (macOS)
- Custom update server
- App store updates only
- Manual download/install
- No updates (fixed version)
12. **Distribution method:**
- Microsoft Store (Windows)
- Mac App Store
- Snap Store (Linux)
- Flatpak (Linux)
- Homebrew (macOS/Linux)
- Direct download from website
- Enterprise deployment (MSI, PKG)
- Multiple channels
13. **Code signing:**
- Yes - Windows (Authenticode)
- Yes - macOS (Apple Developer)
- Yes - both
- No (development/internal only)
14. **Notarization (macOS):**
- Required (public distribution)
- Not needed (internal only)
## Packaging and Installation
15. **Windows installer:**
- NSIS
- Inno Setup
- WiX Toolset (MSI)
- Squirrel.Windows
- MSIX (Windows 10+)
- Portable (no installer)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
16. **macOS installer:**
- DMG (drag-to-install)
- PKG installer
- Mac App Store
- Homebrew Cask
- Other: **\_\_\_**
17. **Linux packaging:**
- AppImage (portable)
- Snap
- Flatpak
- .deb (Debian/Ubuntu)
- .rpm (Fedora/RHEL)
- Tarball
- AUR (Arch)
- Multiple formats
## Configuration and Settings
18. **Settings storage:**
- OS-specific (Registry on Windows, plist on macOS, config files on Linux)
- JSON/YAML config file
- SQLite database
- Remote/cloud sync
- Electron Store
- Other: **\_\_\_**
19. **User data location:**
- Application Support folder (standard OS location)
- User documents folder
- Custom location (user selectable)
- Cloud storage integration
## Networking
20. **Network connectivity:**
- Online-only (requires internet)
- Offline-first (works without internet)
- Hybrid (enhanced with internet)
- No network needed
21. **Backend communication (if applicable):**
- REST API
- GraphQL
- WebSocket
- gRPC
- Custom protocol
- None
## Authentication and Security
22. **Authentication (if applicable):**
- OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, etc.)
- Username/password with backend
- SSO (enterprise)
- OS-level authentication (biometric, Windows Hello)
- No authentication needed
23. **Data security:**
- Encrypt sensitive data at rest
- OS keychain/credential manager
- Custom encryption
- No sensitive data
24. **Sandboxing:**
- Fully sandboxed (Mac App Store requirement)
- Partially sandboxed
- Not sandboxed (legacy/compatibility)
## Performance and Resources
25. **Performance requirements:**
- Lightweight (minimal resource usage)
- Moderate (typical desktop app)
- Resource-intensive (video editing, 3D, etc.)
26. **Background operation:**
- Runs in background/system tray
- Active window only
- Can minimize to tray
27. **Multi-instance handling:**
- Allow multiple instances
- Single instance only
- Single instance with IPC (communicate between instances)
## Development and Build
28. **Build tooling:**
- electron-builder
- electron-forge
- Tauri CLI
- .NET CLI
- CMake (for C++/Qt)
- Gradle (for Java)
- Xcode (for macOS)
- Visual Studio (for Windows)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
29. **Development environment:**
- Cross-platform dev (can build on any OS)
- Platform-specific (need macOS for Mac builds, etc.)
30. **CI/CD for builds:**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- Azure Pipelines
- Custom
- Manual builds
## Testing
31. **UI testing approach:**
- Spectron (Electron)
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Native UI testing (XCTest, UI Automation)
- Manual testing only
32. **End-to-end testing:**
- Yes (automated E2E tests)
- Limited (smoke tests only)
- Manual only
## Additional Features
33. **Internationalization (i18n):**
- Multiple languages supported
- English only
- User-selectable language
- OS language detection
34. **Accessibility:**
- Full accessibility support (screen readers, keyboard nav)
- Basic accessibility
- Not a priority
35. **Crash reporting:**
- Sentry
- BugSnag
- Crashpad (for native crashes)
- Custom reporting
- None
36. **Analytics/Telemetry:**
- Google Analytics
- Mixpanel
- PostHog
- Custom telemetry
- No telemetry (privacy-focused)
37. **Licensing/DRM (if commercial):**
- License key validation
- Hardware-locked licenses
- Subscription validation
- None (free/open-source)
38. **Plugin/Extension system:**
- Yes (user can install plugins)
- No (monolithic app)
- Planned for future
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/embedded-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Embedded System Architecture Questions
## Hardware Platform
1. **Microcontroller/SoC:**
- ESP32 (WiFi/BLE, popular)
- ESP8266 (WiFi, budget)
- STM32 (ARM Cortex-M, powerful)
- Arduino (AVR, beginner-friendly)
- Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
2. **RTOS or Bare Metal:**
- FreeRTOS (popular, tasks/queues)
- Zephyr RTOS
- Bare metal (no OS, full control)
- Arduino framework
- ESP-IDF
- Other: **\_\_\_**
3. **Programming language:**
- C
- C++
- MicroPython
- Arduino (C++)
- Rust
## Communication
4. **Primary communication protocol:**
- MQTT (IoT messaging)
- HTTP/HTTPS (REST APIs)
- WebSockets
- CoAP
- Custom binary protocol
5. **Local communication (peripherals):**
- UART (serial)
- I2C (sensors)
- SPI (high-speed devices)
- GPIO (simple digital)
- Analog (ADC)
6. **Wireless connectivity:**
- WiFi
- Bluetooth Classic
- BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)
- LoRa/LoRaWAN
- Zigbee
- None (wired only)
## Cloud/Backend
7. **Cloud platform:** (if IoT project)
- AWS IoT Core
- Azure IoT Hub
- Google Cloud IoT
- Custom MQTT broker
- ThingsBoard
- None (local only)
## Power
8. **Power source:**
- USB powered (5V constant)
- Battery (need power management)
- AC adapter
- Solar
- Other: **\_\_\_**
9. **Low power mode needed:**
- Yes (battery-powered, deep sleep)
- No (always powered)
## Storage
10. **Data persistence:**
- EEPROM (small config)
- Flash (larger data)
- SD card
- None needed
- Cloud only
## Updates
11. **Firmware update strategy:**
- OTA (Over-The-Air via WiFi)
- USB/Serial upload
- SD card
- No updates (fixed firmware)
## Sensors/Actuators
12. **Sensors used:** (list)
- Temperature (DHT22, DS18B20, etc.)
- Humidity
- Motion (PIR, accelerometer)
- Light (LDR, photodiode)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
13. **Actuators used:** (list)
- LEDs
- Motors (DC, servo, stepper)
- Relays
- Display (LCD, OLED)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Real-Time Constraints
14. **Hard real-time requirements:**
- Yes (must respond within X ms, critical)
- Soft real-time (best effort)
- No timing constraints
15. **Interrupt-driven or polling:**
- Interrupts (responsive)
- Polling (simpler)
- Mix
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/extension-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Browser Extension Architecture Questions
## Target Browsers
1. **Target browser(s):**
- Chrome (most common)
- Firefox
- Edge (Chromium-based)
- Safari
- Opera
- Brave
- Multiple browsers (cross-browser)
2. **Manifest version:**
- Manifest V3 (current standard, required for Chrome Web Store)
- Manifest V2 (legacy, being phased out)
- Both (transition period)
3. **Cross-browser compatibility:**
- Chrome/Edge only (same codebase)
- Chrome + Firefox (minor differences)
- All major browsers (requires polyfills/adapters)
## Extension Type and Architecture
4. **Primary extension type:**
- Browser Action (icon in toolbar)
- Page Action (icon in address bar, page-specific)
- Content Script (runs on web pages)
- DevTools Extension (adds features to browser DevTools)
- New Tab Override
- Bookmarks/History extension
- Multiple components
5. **Extension components needed:**
- Background script/Service Worker (always running logic)
- Content scripts (inject into web pages)
- Popup UI (click toolbar icon)
- Options page (settings/configuration)
- Side panel (persistent panel, MV3)
- DevTools page
- New Tab page
6. **Content script injection:**
- All pages (matches: <all_urls>)
- 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 (<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
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/game-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Game Architecture Questions
## Engine and Platform
1. **Game engine:**
- Unity (C#, versatile, large ecosystem)
- Unreal Engine (C++, AAA graphics)
- Godot (GDScript/C#, open-source)
- Custom engine
- Other: **\_\_\_**
2. **Target platforms:**
- PC (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Mobile (iOS, Android)
- Console (Xbox, PlayStation, Switch)
- Web (WebGL)
- Mix: **\_\_\_**
3. **2D or 3D:**
- 2D
- 3D
- 2.5D (3D with 2D gameplay)
## Architecture Pattern
4. **Core architecture:**
- ECS (Entity Component System) - Unity DOTS, Bevy
- OOP (Object-Oriented) - Unity MonoBehaviours, Unreal Actors
- Data-Oriented Design
- Mix
5. **Scene structure:**
- Single scene (load/unload prefabs)
- Multi-scene (additive loading)
- Scene per level
## Multiplayer (if applicable)
6. **Multiplayer type:**
- Single-player only
- Local multiplayer (same device/splitscreen)
- Online multiplayer
- Both local + online
7. **If online multiplayer - networking:**
- Photon (popular, managed)
- Mirror (Unity, open-source)
- Netcode for GameObjects (Unity, official)
- Unreal Replication
- Custom netcode
- Other: **\_\_\_**
8. **Multiplayer architecture:**
- Client-Server (authoritative server)
- Peer-to-Peer
- Dedicated servers
- Listen server (player hosts)
9. **Backend for multiplayer:**
- PlayFab (Microsoft, game backend)
- Nakama (open-source game server)
- GameSparks (AWS)
- Firebase
- Custom backend
## Save System
10. **Save/persistence:**
- Local only (PlayerPrefs, file)
- Cloud save (Steam Cloud, PlayFab)
- Both local + cloud sync
- No saves needed
## Monetization (if applicable)
11. **Monetization model:**
- Paid (one-time purchase)
- Free-to-play + IAP
- Free-to-play + Ads
- Subscription
- None (hobby/portfolio)
12. **If IAP - platform:**
- Unity IAP (cross-platform)
- Steam microtransactions
- Mobile stores (App Store, Google Play)
- Custom (virtual currency)
13. **If Ads:**
- Unity Ads
- AdMob (Google)
- IronSource
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Assets
14. **Asset pipeline:**
- Unity Asset Bundles
- Unreal Pak files
- Addressables (Unity)
- Streaming from CDN
- All assets in build
15. **Art creation tools:**
- Blender (3D modeling)
- Maya/3DS Max
- Photoshop (textures)
- Substance (materials)
- Aseprite (pixel art)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Analytics and LiveOps
16. **Analytics:**
- Unity Analytics
- GameAnalytics
- Firebase Analytics
- PlayFab Analytics
- None
17. **LiveOps/Events:**
- Remote config (Unity, Firebase)
- In-game events
- Season passes
- None (fixed content)
## Audio
18. **Audio middleware:**
- Unity Audio (built-in)
- FMOD
- Wwise
- Simple (no middleware)
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/infra-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Infrastructure/DevOps Tool Architecture Questions
## Tool Type
1. **Primary tool category:**
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) module/provider
- Kubernetes Operator
- CI/CD plugin/action
- Monitoring/Observability tool
- Configuration management tool
- Deployment automation tool
- GitOps tool
- Security/Compliance scanner
- Cost optimization tool
- Multi-tool platform
## Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
2. **IaC platform (if applicable):**
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- CloudFormation (AWS)
- Bicep (Azure)
- CDK (AWS, TypeScript/Python)
- CDKTF (Terraform with CDK)
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- Not applicable
3. **IaC language:**
- HCL (Terraform)
- TypeScript (Pulumi, CDK)
- Python (Pulumi, CDK)
- Go (Pulumi)
- YAML (CloudFormation, Ansible)
- JSON
- Domain-specific language
- Other: **\_\_\_**
4. **Terraform specifics (if applicable):**
- Terraform module (reusable component)
- Terraform provider (new resource types)
- Terraform backend (state storage)
- Not using Terraform
5. **Target cloud platforms:**
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Multi-cloud
- On-premise (VMware, OpenStack)
- Hybrid cloud
- Kubernetes (cloud-agnostic)
## Kubernetes Operator (if applicable)
6. **Operator framework:**
- Operator SDK (Go)
- Kubebuilder (Go)
- KUDO
- Kopf (Python)
- Java Operator SDK
- Metacontroller
- Custom (raw client-go)
- Not applicable
7. **Operator type:**
- Application operator (manage app lifecycle)
- Infrastructure operator (manage resources)
- Data operator (databases, queues)
- Security operator
- Other: **\_\_\_**
8. **Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs):**
- Define new CRDs
- Use existing CRDs
- Multiple CRDs
9. **Operator scope:**
- Namespace-scoped
- Cluster-scoped
- Both
10. **Reconciliation pattern:**
- Level-based (check desired vs actual state)
- Edge-triggered (react to changes)
- Hybrid
## CI/CD Integration
11. **CI/CD platform (if plugin/action):**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Azure DevOps
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- Drone CI
- Tekton
- Argo Workflows
- Not applicable
12. **Plugin type (if CI/CD plugin):**
- Build step
- Test step
- Deployment step
- Security scan
- Notification
- Custom action
- Not applicable
13. **GitHub Action specifics (if applicable):**
- JavaScript action
- Docker container action
- Composite action (reusable workflow)
- Not using GitHub Actions
## Configuration and State Management
14. **Configuration approach:**
- Configuration files (YAML, JSON, HCL)
- Environment variables
- Command-line flags
- API-based configuration
- Multiple methods
15. **State management:**
- Stateless (idempotent operations)
- Local state file
- Remote state (S3, Consul, Terraform Cloud)
- Database state
- Kubernetes ConfigMaps/Secrets
- Not applicable
16. **Secrets management:**
- Vault (HashiCorp)
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Azure Key Vault
- Google Secret Manager
- Kubernetes Secrets
- SOPS (encrypted files)
- Sealed Secrets
- External Secrets Operator
- Environment variables
- Not applicable
## Execution Model
17. **Execution pattern:**
- CLI tool (run locally or in CI)
- Kubernetes controller (runs in cluster)
- Daemon/agent (runs on nodes/VMs)
- Web service (API-driven)
- Scheduled job (cron, K8s CronJob)
- Event-driven (webhook, queue)
18. **Deployment model:**
- Single binary (Go, Rust)
- Container image
- Script (Python, Bash)
- Helm chart
- Kustomize
- Installed via package manager
- Multiple deployment methods
19. **Concurrency:**
- Single-threaded (sequential)
- Multi-threaded (parallel operations)
- Async I/O
- Not applicable
## Resource Management
20. **Resources managed:**
- Compute (VMs, containers, functions)
- Networking (VPC, load balancers, DNS)
- Storage (disks, buckets, databases)
- Identity (IAM, service accounts)
- Security (firewall, policies)
- Kubernetes resources (pods, services, etc.)
- Multiple resource types
21. **Resource lifecycle:**
- Create/provision
- Update/modify
- Delete/destroy
- Import existing resources
- All of the above
22. **Dependency management:**
- Explicit dependencies (depends_on)
- Implicit dependencies (reference outputs)
- DAG-based (topological sort)
- None (independent resources)
## Language and Framework
23. **Implementation language:**
- Go (common for K8s, CLI tools)
- Python (scripting, automation)
- TypeScript/JavaScript (Pulumi, CDK)
- Rust (performance-critical tools)
- Bash/Shell (simple scripts)
- Java (enterprise tools)
- Ruby (Chef, legacy tools)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
24. **Key libraries/SDKs:**
- AWS SDK
- Azure SDK
- Google Cloud SDK
- Kubernetes client-go
- Terraform Plugin SDK
- Ansible modules
- Custom libraries
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## API and Integration
25. **API exposure:**
- REST API
- gRPC API
- CLI only (no API)
- Kubernetes API (CRDs)
- Webhook receiver
- Multiple interfaces
26. **External integrations:**
- Cloud provider APIs (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Kubernetes API
- Monitoring systems (Prometheus, Datadog)
- Notification services (Slack, PagerDuty)
- Version control (Git)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Idempotency and Safety
27. **Idempotency:**
- Fully idempotent (safe to run multiple times)
- Conditionally idempotent (with flags)
- Not idempotent (manual cleanup needed)
28. **Dry-run/Plan mode:**
- Yes (preview changes before applying)
- No (immediate execution)
29. **Rollback capability:**
- Automatic rollback on failure
- Manual rollback (previous state)
- No rollback (manual cleanup)
30. **Destructive operations:**
- Confirmation required (--force flag)
- Automatic (with safeguards)
- Not applicable (read-only tool)
## Observability
31. **Logging:**
- Structured logging (JSON)
- Plain text logs
- Library: (logrus, zap, winston, etc.)
- Multiple log levels (debug, info, warn, error)
32. **Metrics:**
- Prometheus metrics
- CloudWatch metrics
- Datadog metrics
- Custom metrics
- None
33. **Tracing:**
- OpenTelemetry
- Jaeger
- Not applicable
34. **Health checks:**
- Kubernetes liveness/readiness probes
- HTTP health endpoint
- Not applicable (CLI tool)
## Testing
35. **Testing approach:**
- Unit tests (mock external APIs)
- Integration tests (real cloud resources)
- E2E tests (full workflow)
- Contract tests (API compatibility)
- Manual testing
- All of the above
36. **Test environment:**
- Local (mocked)
- Dev/staging cloud account
- Kind/minikube (for K8s)
- Multiple environments
37. **Terraform testing (if applicable):**
- Terratest (Go-based testing)
- terraform validate
- terraform plan (in CI)
- Not applicable
38. **Kubernetes testing (if operator):**
- Unit tests (Go testing)
- envtest (fake API server)
- Kind cluster (real cluster)
- Not applicable
## Documentation
39. **Documentation format:**
- README (basic)
- Detailed docs (Markdown files)
- Generated docs (godoc, Sphinx, etc.)
- Doc website (MkDocs, Docusaurus)
- Interactive examples
- All of the above
40. **Usage examples:**
- Code examples
- Tutorial walkthroughs
- Video demos
- Sample configurations
- Minimal (README only)
## Distribution
41. **Distribution method:**
- GitHub Releases (binaries)
- Package manager (homebrew, apt, yum)
- Container registry (Docker Hub, ghcr.io)
- Terraform Registry
- Helm chart repository
- Language package manager (npm, pip, gem)
- Multiple methods
42. **Installation:**
- Download binary
- Package manager install
- Helm install (for K8s)
- Container image pull
- Build from source
- Multiple methods
43. **Versioning:**
- Semantic versioning (semver)
- Calendar versioning
- API version compatibility
## Updates and Lifecycle
44. **Update mechanism:**
- Manual download/install
- Package manager update
- Auto-update (self-update command)
- Helm upgrade
- Not applicable
45. **Backward compatibility:**
- Fully backward compatible
- Breaking changes documented
- Migration guides provided
46. **Deprecation policy:**
- Formal deprecation warnings
- Support for N-1 versions
- No formal policy
## Security
47. **Credentials handling:**
- Environment variables
- Config file (encrypted)
- Cloud provider IAM (instance roles, IRSA)
- Kubernetes ServiceAccount
- Vault integration
- Multiple methods
48. **Least privilege:**
- Minimal permissions documented
- Permission templates provided (IAM policies)
- No specific guidance
49. **Code signing:**
- Signed binaries
- Container image signing (cosign)
- Not signed
50. **Supply chain security:**
- SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)
- Provenance attestation
- Dependency scanning
- None
## Compliance and Governance
51. **Compliance focus:**
- Policy enforcement (OPA, Kyverno)
- Audit logging
- Cost tagging
- Security posture
- Not applicable
52. **Policy as Code:**
- OPA (Open Policy Agent)
- Sentinel (Terraform)
- Kyverno (Kubernetes)
- Custom policies
- Not applicable
53. **Audit trail:**
- Change tracking
- GitOps audit (Git history)
- CloudTrail/Activity logs
- Not applicable
## Performance and Scale
54. **Performance requirements:**
- Fast execution (seconds)
- Moderate (minutes)
- Long-running (hours acceptable)
- Background reconciliation (continuous)
55. **Scale considerations:**
- Small scale (< 10 resources)
- Medium (10-100 resources)
- Large (100-1000 resources)
- Very large (1000+ resources)
56. **Rate limiting:**
- Respect cloud API limits
- Configurable rate limits
- Not applicable
## CI/CD and Automation
57. **CI/CD for the tool itself:**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- Custom
- Manual builds
58. **Release automation:**
- Automated releases (tags trigger build)
- Manual releases
- GoReleaser (for Go projects)
- Semantic release
59. **Pre-commit hooks:**
- Linting
- Formatting
- Security scans
- None
## Community and Ecosystem
60. **Open source:**
- Fully open source
- Proprietary
- Open core (free + paid features)
61. **License:**
- MIT
- Apache 2.0
- GPL
- Proprietary
- Other: **\_\_\_**
62. **Community support:**
- GitHub issues
- Slack/Discord community
- Forum
- Commercial support
- Minimal (internal tool)
63. **Plugin/Extension system:**
- Extensible (plugins supported)
- Monolithic
- Planned for future
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/library-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Library/SDK Architecture Questions
## Language and Platform
1. **Primary language:**
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- Java/Kotlin
- C#
- Other: **\_\_\_**
2. **Target runtime:**
- Node.js
- Browser (frontend)
- Both Node.js + Browser (isomorphic)
- Deno
- Bun
- Python runtime
- Other: **\_\_\_**
3. **Package registry:**
- npm (JavaScript)
- PyPI (Python)
- crates.io (Rust)
- Maven Central (Java)
- NuGet (.NET)
- Go modules
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## API Design
4. **Public API style:**
- Functional (pure functions)
- OOP (classes/instances)
- Fluent/Builder pattern
- Mix
5. **API surface size:**
- Minimal (focused, single purpose)
- Comprehensive (many features)
6. **Async handling:**
- Promises (async/await)
- Callbacks
- Observables (RxJS)
- Synchronous only
- Mix
## Type Safety
7. **Type system:**
- TypeScript (JavaScript)
- Type hints (Python)
- Strongly typed (Rust, Go, Java)
- Runtime validation (Zod, Yup)
- None (JavaScript)
8. **Type definitions:**
- Bundled with package
- @types package (DefinitelyTyped)
- Not applicable
## Build and Distribution
9. **Build tool:**
- tsup (TypeScript, simple)
- esbuild (fast)
- Rollup
- Webpack
- Vite
- tsc (TypeScript compiler only)
- Not needed (pure JS)
10. **Output format:**
- ESM (modern)
- CommonJS (Node.js)
- UMD (universal)
- Multiple formats
11. **Minification:**
- Yes (production bundle)
- No (source code)
- Source + minified both
## Dependencies
12. **Dependency strategy:**
- Zero dependencies (standalone)
- Minimal dependencies
- Standard dependencies OK
13. **Peer dependencies:**
- Yes (e.g., React library requires React)
- No
## Documentation
14. **Documentation approach:**
- README only
- API docs (JSDoc, TypeDoc)
- Full docs site (VitePress, Docusaurus)
- Examples repo
- All of the above
## Testing
15. **Test framework:**
- Jest (JavaScript)
- Vitest (Vite-compatible)
- Pytest (Python)
- Cargo test (Rust)
- Go test
- Other: **\_\_\_**
16. **Test coverage goal:**
- High (80%+)
- Moderate (50-80%)
- Critical paths only
## Versioning and Releases
17. **Versioning:**
- Semantic versioning (semver)
- Calendar versioning (calver)
- Other
18. **Release automation:**
- Changesets
- Semantic Release
- Manual
- GitHub Releases
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Additional
19. **CLI included:** (if applicable)
- Yes (command-line tool)
- No (library only)
20. **Configuration:**
- Config file (JSON, YAML)
- Programmatic only
- Both
- None needed
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/mobile-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Mobile Project Architecture Questions
## Platform
1. **Target platforms:**
- iOS only
- Android only
- Both iOS + Android
2. **Framework choice:**
- React Native (JavaScript/TypeScript, large ecosystem)
- Flutter (Dart, high performance, beautiful UI)
- Native (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android)
- Expo (React Native with managed workflow)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
3. **If React Native - workflow:**
- Expo (managed, easier, some limitations)
- React Native CLI (bare workflow, full control)
## Backend and Data
4. **Backend approach:**
- Firebase (BaaS, real-time, easy)
- Supabase (BaaS, PostgreSQL, open-source)
- Custom API (REST/GraphQL)
- AWS Amplify
- Other BaaS: **\_\_\_**
5. **Local data persistence:**
- AsyncStorage (simple key-value)
- SQLite (relational, offline-first)
- Realm (NoSQL, sync)
- WatermelonDB (reactive, performance)
- MMKV (fast key-value)
6. **State management:**
- Redux Toolkit
- Zustand
- MobX
- Context API + useReducer
- Jotai/Recoil
- React Query (server state)
## Navigation
7. **Navigation library:**
- React Navigation (standard for RN)
- Expo Router (file-based)
- React Native Navigation (native navigation)
## Authentication
8. **Auth approach:**
- Firebase Auth
- Supabase Auth
- Auth0
- Social auth (Google, Apple, Facebook)
- Custom
- None
## Push Notifications
9. **Push notifications:** (if needed)
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
- Expo Notifications
- OneSignal
- AWS SNS
- None needed
## Payments (if applicable)
10. **In-app purchases:**
- RevenueCat (cross-platform, subscriptions)
- expo-in-app-purchases
- react-native-iap
- Stripe (external payments)
- None needed
## Additional
11. **Maps integration:** (if needed)
- Google Maps
- Apple Maps
- Mapbox
- None needed
12. **Analytics:**
- Firebase Analytics
- Amplitude
- Mixpanel
- PostHog
- None needed
13. **Crash reporting:**
- Sentry
- Firebase Crashlytics
- Bugsnag
- None needed
14. **Offline-first requirement:**
- Yes (sync when online)
- No (online-only)
- Partial (some features offline)
15. **App distribution:**
- App Store + Google Play (public)
- TestFlight + Internal Testing (beta)
- Enterprise distribution
- Expo EAS Build
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/project-types/web-questions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Web Project Architecture Questions
## Frontend
1. **Framework choice:**
- Next.js (React, App Router, SSR)
- React (SPA, client-only)
- Vue 3 + Nuxt
- Svelte + SvelteKit
- Other: **\_\_\_**
2. **Styling approach:**
- Tailwind CSS (utility-first)
- CSS Modules
- Styled Components (CSS-in-JS)
- Sass/SCSS
- Other: **\_\_\_**
3. **State management:** (if complex client state)
- Zustand (lightweight)
- Redux Toolkit
- Jotai/Recoil (atomic)
- Context API only
- Server state only (React Query/SWR)
## Backend
4. **Backend approach:**
- Next.js API Routes (integrated)
- Express.js (Node.js)
- Nest.js (Node.js, structured)
- FastAPI (Python)
- Django (Python)
- Rails (Ruby)
- Other: **\_\_\_**
5. **API paradigm:**
- REST
- GraphQL (Apollo, Relay)
- tRPC (type-safe)
- gRPC
- Mix: **\_\_\_**
## Database
6. **Primary database:**
- PostgreSQL (relational, ACID)
- MySQL
- MongoDB (document)
- Supabase (PostgreSQL + backend services)
- Firebase Firestore
- Other: **\_\_\_**
7. **ORM/Query builder:**
- Prisma (type-safe, modern)
- Drizzle ORM
- TypeORM
- Sequelize
- Mongoose (for MongoDB)
- Raw SQL
- Database client directly (Supabase SDK)
## Authentication
8. **Auth approach:**
- Supabase Auth (managed, built-in)
- Auth0 (managed, enterprise)
- Clerk (managed, developer-friendly)
- NextAuth.js (self-hosted)
- Firebase Auth
- Custom JWT implementation
- Passport.js
## Deployment
9. **Hosting platform:**
- Vercel (optimal for Next.js)
- Netlify
- AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda)
- Google Cloud
- Heroku
- Railway
- Self-hosted
10. **CI/CD:**
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- CircleCI
- Vercel/Netlify auto-deploy
- Other: **\_\_\_**
## Additional Services (if applicable)
11. **Email service:** (if transactional emails needed)
- Resend (developer-friendly, modern)
- SendGrid
- AWS SES
- Postmark
- None needed
12. **Payment processing:** (if e-commerce/subscriptions)
- Stripe (comprehensive)
- Lemon Squeezy (SaaS-focused)
- PayPal
- Square
- None needed
13. **File storage:** (if user uploads)
- Supabase Storage
- AWS S3
- Cloudflare R2
- Vercel Blob
- Uploadthing
- None needed
14. **Search:** (if full-text search beyond database)
- Elasticsearch
- Algolia
- Meilisearch
- Typesense
- Database full-text (PostgreSQL)
- None needed
15. **Caching:** (if performance critical)
- Redis (external cache)
- In-memory (Node.js cache)
- CDN caching (Cloudflare/Vercel)
- None needed
16. **Monitoring/Error Tracking:**
- Sentry (error tracking)
- PostHog (product analytics)
- Datadog
- LogRocket
- Vercel Analytics
- None needed
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/workflow.yaml" type="yaml"><![CDATA[name: tech-spec
description: >-
Generate a comprehensive Technical Specification from PRD and Architecture
with acceptance criteria and traceability mapping
author: BMAD BMM
web_bundle_files:
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/template.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/instructions.md
- bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/checklist.md
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/template.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Technical Specification: {{epic_title}}
Date: {{date}}
Author: {{user_name}}
Epic ID: {{epic_id}}
Status: Draft
---
## Overview
{{overview}}
## Objectives and Scope
{{objectives_scope}}
## System Architecture Alignment
{{system_arch_alignment}}
## Detailed Design
### Services and Modules
{{services_modules}}
### Data Models and Contracts
{{data_models}}
### APIs and Interfaces
{{apis_interfaces}}
### Workflows and Sequencing
{{workflows_sequencing}}
## Non-Functional Requirements
### Performance
{{nfr_performance}}
### Security
{{nfr_security}}
### Reliability/Availability
{{nfr_reliability}}
### Observability
{{nfr_observability}}
## Dependencies and Integrations
{{dependencies_integrations}}
## Acceptance Criteria (Authoritative)
{{acceptance_criteria}}
## Traceability Mapping
{{traceability_mapping}}
## Risks, Assumptions, Open Questions
{{risks_assumptions_questions}}
## Test Strategy Summary
{{test_strategy}}
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/instructions.md" type="md"><![CDATA[<!-- BMAD BMM Tech Spec Workflow Instructions (v6) -->
```xml
<critical>The workflow execution engine is governed by: {project_root}/bmad/core/tasks/workflow.md</critical>
<critical>You MUST have already loaded and processed: {installed_path}/workflow.yaml</critical>
<critical>This workflow generates a comprehensive Technical Specification from PRD and Architecture, including detailed design, NFRs, acceptance criteria, and traceability mapping.</critical>
<critical>Default execution mode: #yolo (non-interactive). If required inputs cannot be auto-discovered and {{non_interactive}} == true, HALT with a clear message listing missing documents; do not prompt.</critical>
<workflow>
<step n="1" goal="Collect inputs and initialize">
<action>Identify PRD and Architecture documents from recommended_inputs. Attempt to auto-discover at default paths.</action>
<ask optional="true" if="{{non_interactive}} == false">If inputs are missing, ask the user for file paths.</ask>
<check>If inputs are missing and {{non_interactive}} == true → HALT with a clear message listing missing documents.</check>
<action>Extract {{epic_title}} and {{epic_id}} from PRD (or ASK if not present).</action>
<action>Resolve output file path using workflow variables and initialize by writing the template.</action>
</step>
<step n="2" goal="Overview and scope">
<action>Read COMPLETE PRD and Architecture files.</action>
<template-output file="{default_output_file}">
Replace {{overview}} with a concise 1-2 paragraph summary referencing PRD context and goals
Replace {{objectives_scope}} with explicit in-scope and out-of-scope bullets
Replace {{system_arch_alignment}} with a short alignment summary to the architecture (components referenced, constraints)
</template-output>
</step>
<step n="3" goal="Detailed design">
<action>Derive concrete implementation specifics from Architecture and PRD (NO invention).</action>
<template-output file="{default_output_file}">
Replace {{services_modules}} with a table or bullets listing services/modules with responsibilities, inputs/outputs, and owners
Replace {{data_models}} with normalized data model definitions (entities, fields, types, relationships); include schema snippets where available
Replace {{apis_interfaces}} with API endpoint specs or interface signatures (method, path, request/response models, error codes)
Replace {{workflows_sequencing}} with sequence notes or diagrams-as-text (steps, actors, data flow)
</template-output>
</step>
<step n="4" goal="Non-functional requirements">
<template-output file="{default_output_file}">
Replace {{nfr_performance}} with measurable targets (latency, throughput); link to any performance requirements in PRD/Architecture
Replace {{nfr_security}} with authn/z requirements, data handling, threat notes; cite source sections
Replace {{nfr_reliability}} with availability, recovery, and degradation behavior
Replace {{nfr_observability}} with logging, metrics, tracing requirements; name required signals
</template-output>
</step>
<step n="5" goal="Dependencies and integrations">
<action>Scan repository for dependency manifests (e.g., package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Unity Packages/manifest.json).</action>
<template-output file="{default_output_file}">
Replace {{dependencies_integrations}} with a structured list of dependencies and integration points with version or commit constraints when known
</template-output>
</step>
<step n="6" goal="Acceptance criteria and traceability">
<action>Extract acceptance criteria from PRD; normalize into atomic, testable statements.</action>
<template-output file="{default_output_file}">
Replace {{acceptance_criteria}} with a numbered list of testable acceptance criteria
Replace {{traceability_mapping}} with a table mapping: AC → Spec Section(s) → Component(s)/API(s) → Test Idea
</template-output>
</step>
<step n="7" goal="Risks and test strategy">
<template-output file="{default_output_file}">
Replace {{risks_assumptions_questions}} with explicit list (each item labeled as Risk/Assumption/Question) with mitigation or next step
Replace {{test_strategy}} with a brief plan (test levels, frameworks, coverage of ACs, edge cases)
</template-output>
</step>
<step n="8" goal="Validate">
<invoke-task>Validate against checklist at {installed_path}/checklist.md using bmad/core/tasks/validate-workflow.md</invoke-task>
</step>
</workflow>
```
]]></file>
<file id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/checklist.md" type="md"><![CDATA[# Tech Spec Validation Checklist
```xml
<checklist id="bmad/bmm/workflows/3-solutioning/tech-spec/checklist">
<item>Overview clearly ties to PRD goals</item>
<item>Scope explicitly lists in-scope and out-of-scope</item>
<item>Design lists all services/modules with responsibilities</item>
<item>Data models include entities, fields, and relationships</item>
<item>APIs/interfaces are specified with methods and schemas</item>
<item>NFRs: performance, security, reliability, observability addressed</item>
<item>Dependencies/integrations enumerated with versions where known</item>
<item>Acceptance criteria are atomic and testable</item>
<item>Traceability maps AC → Spec → Components → Tests</item>
<item>Risks/assumptions/questions listed with mitigation/next steps</item>
<item>Test strategy covers all ACs and critical paths</item>
</checklist>
```
]]></file>
</agent-bundle>