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BMAD Method

Pressure-Test an Idea

Use the bmad-forge-idea skill to put a half-formed idea under adversarial questioning. It either survives with earned conviction or dies cheaply.

When to Use This

Section titled “When to Use This”
  • You hold an idea and want it stress-tested before you commit time or money
  • You want an honest read on whether to kill it, not encouragement
  • You’re choosing between branches of a decision and need each one resolved
  • Your idea lives inside an existing project and needs to be checked against what’s already there

When to Skip This

Section titled “When to Skip This”
  • You have no idea yet and need to generate options — use bmad-brainstorming
  • You’ve committed to a product and want it proven customer-first — use bmad-prfaq
  • You want your agents to debate a decision together — use bmad-party-mode

Run a Session

Section titled “Run a Session”

1. Invoke the skill

Section titled “1. Invoke the skill”

Type bmad-forge-idea in your IDE, or say “forge an idea” or “pressure-test this.” Name the idea in the same message or wait for the first question.

2. State your goal

Section titled “2. State your goal”

Tell the forge what you want: harden the idea, prove or kill it, or just think it through. The goal steers the questioning. Proving goes after the load-bearing claim first, and hardening drives each branch to a resolved answer.

3. Defend your thinking, one branch at a time

Section titled “3. Defend your thinking, one branch at a time”

The interrogator asks one question at a time and puts its own recommended answer on the table for you to push against. Answer honestly. When it challenges a fuzzy term or a claim that doesn’t match your project, settle that before you move on.

4. Steer the room

Section titled “4. Steer the room”

Every branch arrives with two voices — one from your roster, one conjured by the topic. Call a specific persona by name, summon a saved party, or say “adversarial on this” to have a claim attacked while you defend it.

5. Land an exit

Section titled “5. Land an exit”

Drive each branch to a resolved answer until the idea is hardened, killed, or simply clearer. Say when you’re done, or let the forge call it.

What You Get

Section titled “What You Get”

The forge writes a self-contained forge-report.html every run, stamped to match the outcome. A hardened idea also distills into forged-idea.md, which captures the locked decisions and what was killed and why. That file feeds bmad-spec, bmad-prd, or bmad-prfaq for a product concept. A killed or clarified session needs no artifact; the report stands on its own.