# BMAD V6 Celebration/Overview - Full Transcript

**Video**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPoGSeI2sw
**Title**: BMAD V6 Celebration/Overview
**Extracted**: 2026-02-26
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Today is really a celebration and I want to talk about V6. The AI landscape is constantly changing. What is BMAD and the BMAD method? With V4 from V1 to V4, the BMAD method stood for the breakthrough method of agile AI-driven development. Quite a mouthful, but with V6 we are branding this whole new platform and everything it does. BMAD, build more architect dreams. This is going to help you do all of that. Whether you want to build your dream SaaS application, build a desktop application, or build a game, or embrace AI and build your own personal assistance that can help you with entertainment, therapy, any workflows. Augment your life and augment your daily job. This is for you.

There are already so many builders ready and building these amazing modules that I can't wait to get this marketplace open in the next few weeks and share them with you. And unlike any random skill repository out there, these things are fully vetted for both quality and security. And there's a very tight process to release a BMAD method module onto the platform in the ecosystem. Trust and safety I value with V6.

The BMAD method is now a platform. It is so much more than software delivery.

First of all, I'll say the V6 BMAD method is the best platform out there for taking your vibe coding mess to the next level. You know, you've been there before. I've been here. I've said this in past videos. You try vibe coding. You're talking back and forth to the AI and you get to a point where you're going to hit a wall.

The BMAD method helps solve that by creating structure and a flow where you build your ideas, you ideate, you brainstorm, you work with a team of agents in real time in party mode, and you come up with a great idea. So, you know already before you hand it off to the AI exactly what you're going to build. You build your structured requirements, your brainstorming, your context, and you build this funnel. You design exactly what the UX for your application is going to look like. You lay down the platform for your architecture. So when the agents start working on your code, they know exactly what to build.

Look, there's a lot of other platforms out there. AI doesn't sleep and there's tons of imitators and copiers, even from the biggest platforms on the planet with millions of dollars at their disposal. There's so many things out there that you can try right now. Some of them they're tied to just one model locking you in or one tool locking you in. Some of them they're a little bit better than vibe coding but not much.

## Scale Adaptive

The BMAD method with V6 specifically the piece or the module that will help you build software. This is the only one out there that is scale adaptive. What does that mean? That means you can build with the full BMAD method flow going through the whole funnel. Or what you can do is you can use QuickFlow. If you just want to add a quick feature to an existing application or fix a small bug, QuickFlow and quick planning is for you. It's a two-step process. It's going to be better than any vibe coding. It's amazing and it's going to help you get stuff done quicker and faster when you don't want to have to go through the whole flow.

But when you're ready to dream and dream big and really plan out your next big application or what you want to build, the full BMAD method is for you. It's going to take you through the planning exercises all the way to the end.

There's so many other just amazing things that the community has come up with that I want to share with you.

## Documentation Site

So, first of all, what I want to show you is so many people have helped build this amazing documentation site for all of our key modules that we're launching with and many more that are coming. Check this out. We now have a full website dedicated just to documentation for the BMAD method. If you're new here, we have quick start tutorials.

I want to thank Force Trainer and many of the community also Jay who helped really with a lot of this documentation and formulating this Diataxis framework which really breaks everything down into tutorials, how-to guides, deep explanations, and full reference if you really want to get into the details. But if you're just new here, you can just start with getting started. And this will quickly walk you through how to get set up with the BMAD method.

In the past, we did not have very good documentation. Now, documentation is a first class citizen. And we're going to continue to produce content for this.

## AI-Optimized Docs (llms-full.txt)

But there's another amazing feature with this documentation, which you can see right up here. AI optimized BMAD docs now produce what is called an llms-full.txt. Basically, what that means is you can now point your AI agent to this URL docs.bmadmethod.org. So, the agent can actually answer many questions for you about all of these guides and other ways to use the BMAD method.

## BMAD Builder (Alpha)

Additionally, in my last video, I talked about the BMAD builder, which is also fully documented. It's still a very early alpha going under a heavy rewrite, ready for launch in the next two weeks. It's going to be fully skill compliant and transform not only the full BMAD method but everything that you can build. This is no simple skill builder or toy, my friends. This allows you to build custom personalized agents with memory, full workflows to guide through structured processes or simple skills, but all of them fully compliant with the BMAD method ecosystem.

## BMAD Help System

And I'm going to show you exactly what that means because what I want to show you right now is one of the key features of the BMAD method and that is BMAD method help. To demonstrate it though, I have to first show you how we install with the BMAD method.

## Installation Process

And if you've gone through the V4 installer, you're going to love this because it is so fast and streamlined. I got to give a huge shout out to Alex and Dave and Wendy and many others in the community and on the open source team that helped build this amazing installer. It is so quick and streamlined. You're going to love it.

Let's jump into it right now. There is nothing in this demos folder. So, we're going to do `npx bmad-method install`. We'll tell it to proceed and this is going to run the installer for us.

First of all, there is a message here and I recommend that you read this. But the first thing it's going to ask us is where do we want to install? Now, I can use the directory that I'm in, but I actually want to set up a new project. So, I'm going to do dot, which means this folder slash, and then I'm going to give it the name for a new directory to create. And so, we're just going to call this demo one for today, just for the purposes of this video. We're going to hit enter. Now, this recognizes that that is not a folder that exists. So it's protecting us in case we typoed something. But no, this is correct. We want to create demo one folder. So we're going to say yes.

### Module Selection

Very soon we're going to have a website with many community and many more modules. But for right now, you can choose from modules here:

- **BMAD Core** - central and provides common functionality for all of the modules that will be part of the BMAD method ecosystem such as party mode, advanced elicitation, and many other great tools
- **BMAD Method** - for agile AI-driven development (what you knew from V4, totally rewritten from the ground up for V6)
- **BMAD Game Dev Studio** - if doing game development
- **Test Architect** - advanced enterprise level end-to-end testing (developed by Morat, a longtime industry veteran)
- **Creative Intelligence Suite** - brainstorming and creative workflows

But you can select from other modules here. So I'm going to select the BMAD method for agile AI-driven development.

Additionally, if I were doing game development, I would turn off the BMAD method and instead I would choose the BMAD game dev studio. And if you want to do advanced enterprise level end-to-end testing and work with one of the best AI test frameworks, my friend Morat developed this. He's a longtime industry veteran and knows everything about AI automated testing frameworks. If you need professional level enterprise testing, install the test architect. But if you're just going to be building a simple application or building something for yourself or maybe to prototype, the BMAD method has a light version of the test architect. It has a QA agent and will be more than enough for you to get started.

I do not have any custom modules. There will be tools for creating your own custom modules, agents, and workflows. And this will help you install those.

### Tool Selection

And now, here's where you can select which tool you want to use. And you can select more than one, but you do need to select at least one. Right now I'm going to select Claude Code but I want you to know that we support:

- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Auggie
- Klein Code Buddy
- Codeex
- Codeex Crush
- Gemini CLI
- GitHub Co-pilot
- Anti-gravity
- iFlow
- Kilo Code
- Kira
- Open Codewer
- Rue Klein
- Rov Tre
- Windsurf
- And about 15 more coming very soon

Because we are going fully skill compliant, everything in the BMAD method ecosystem works across all of these platforms. You just have to answer a few questions and then all of the other modules they do have their own configurations but we can just skip right through them.

### Multilingual Support

Agents will remember what to call you. But this is one of the most exciting innovations of the BMAD method in V6. All of the workflows support multilingual integration. So many people in China are using this. As a matter of fact, all of the documentation for the BMAD method is being translated by my friend Long in China who's a big proponent in sharing the BMAD method throughout China. But here I'm going to select English.

You can do crazy things like here too. This is free text. So you can put in English pirate if you want to. This is the communication language and not the document encoding output language. But I'm going to keep these to the default English.

By default, files will be saved to a folder called BMAD output. And we're just going to do express setup. So it will select all the default options for those individual modules.

And you can see that is how quickly we are done. I've been talking, but this is literally a 30-second setup.

### Post-Installation Structure

So now we are ready to go. If I do ls, you can see that I now have a folder called demo one there. I'm going to go into demo one. So we are in VS Code. Now there's no project here yet, but I have two modules installed.

One thing with V6 to notice is that all of the modules are now all self-contained under a single BMAD folder. Very soon when we go to skill full compliance, you will actually be able to install all of the modules globally centrally on your system and set up each project folder to use exactly what you need in our project folder.

## BMAD Help Demo

You know, one of the biggest things I got with BMAD method V4 and even in the early alpha is there's a lot in V6 and there is a lot of functionality. It all ties together. You don't have to use it all, but it can be very hard to know what to do.

So, let me fire up Claude Code here. And I am just going to do BMAD help. If you just don't know what to do, you can just say BMAD help and ask it a question.

**First Query**: "For a business idea that I have, I'm not exactly sure if I want to build an application yet. I'd really like to just explore creative options, maybe do some brainstorming and research. How can the modules that I installed help me?"

This understands exactly what you want to do and it will look across all of the modules that you've installed and any skills that you've installed and actually tell you what it recommends for you. Now, the first time you run this, it's actually seeing if you've already done anything.

So, what we can see here is this is telling us based on our interest in exploring business ideas, it recommends that we actually use the creative innovation suite. It can help us do innovation, strategy, problem solving, brainstorming. One of the most amazing brainstorming modules. This is well advanced beyond the V4 brainstorming. It is amazing. It will pull through advanced facilitation and elicitation the best ideas out of you. Working with the AI, you can do design thinking, storytelling.

**Second Query** (after clearing context): "I already have a pretty solid idea and know what I want to build for a really cool SaaS app. So I want to use the full BMAD method, but I'm new to V6. What is the first required thing that I need to do in the BMAD method to get started to really plan my application?"

So now this is a totally different context that I'm giving it. Again, it's going to see if we've already done anything because I cleared the context and it is going to recommend something else to us.

But look now, this has tied it to a different understanding of what I want to do and it's adapted the response. So, it's not just a dumb help system. It now knows that I already have a good idea. It's telling me I can jump right ahead to phase two, skip phase one, which is brainstorming and analysis, and jump right into creating a PRD because I said I already have a very good idea of what I want to build.

This is how the BMAD method works in a scale adaptive. But it also lets us know, hey, before jumping into the PRD, if you want to do market research, domain research, maybe technical research, or even create a product brief, which is a higher level document, you can do those first or we can jump right into the create PRD.

And what's nice here is it's also telling us the exact commands to run. So now in BMAD V6, you have two options. You can load the agent first and communicate through the agent to do different things, but you can also jump right into the skills that launch the actual workflows. They will still have the essence of the agents, but you have now lots of options. And it's telling you here, start with BMAD BMM create PRD, and you're ready to go.

### Launching PRD Creation

So, if I say yes, let's start the PRD, I can either tell it right here and it will launch it for us or I can start in a whole new chat and just do -- and you don't have to type out the whole thing. The nice thing with the autocomplete is I know it's create PRD. So, I can just start typing create and look right there, it's PRD. We can hit tab and now we're launching the process to work with a facilitated agent analyst or PM that will help us create the PRD that is at the top of the BMAD funnel.

## BMAD Help Adaptability

But what is so special that I'm really showing you here about BMAD help is that as you add more modules, as more modules come from the community, the BMAD help will adapt and offer you so many different options, whatever you're working on. And again, this goes beyond just software development. You saw the creative innovation suite that will help you create or plan storytelling for business presentations, videos, outreach, anything you have to do planning for a business, working with a founding squad.

And what is also cool is all these workflows, they are going to evolve and also support the special features that new modern LLMs have. If you're not up on all the hype lately, you might not know yet about agent teams or sub agents. But all of these will work and optimize for those without you even having to understand them. But as you understand them, you can also modify every piece of BMAD method to fully take advantage of exactly what your tools and models support.

It's so exciting and it is such a great time to be jumping into the BMAD method, the ecosystem. And don't worry because the master classes I'm going to be showing you a lot of these advanced tips that are really going to help you.

## BMAD Platform Future

So my friends, look, this is just a celebration. This is a launch video. I want to just give you a teaser of how much is amazing in this new platform. I hope you will try it out and start experimenting with it. But I got to say, hundreds of thousands have been trying this, testing this, and trying the platform since the early days of Alphas V6 months ago.

And if you tried it in the early alpha, trust me, so much has changed. This has evolved because of the amazing community, because of the help and support of many of you that have come in, offered suggestions, given feedback, told me where things were dumb or needed tweaking.

Also, many enterprises have reached out and said they are using this with their workforce. And so we have been evolving the BMAD method from a solo tool to a tool that truly adapts and works for business and enterprise.

Full customization of every workflow, skill, and agent will be supported very soon where you can continue to get updates from the BMAD method and your optimizations or your customizations will still survive. It's amazing. This is one of the few systems out there that I know of that works like this.

### Quadbox and Ralph Loops

And trust me when I said there's so much more coming. You may have heard the hype about Quadbox and Ralph loops and fully hands off from the AI. We are going to be coming out with modules very soon that will further expand the BMAD method. So if you want to experiment and use any of those, you will be able to put BMAD in a box and have the full BMAD ecosystem be your persistent agent able to talk to you on the phone. Or maybe you still want to work through the guided BMAD planning flow, but then at the end you wanted to build full epics or full stories for you. All of that is coming soon, my friend, because we have changed the BMAD method from a structured flow to a platform that is going to give you options and allow you to install anything you want.

### Non-Technical Access

The BMAD method is just not for technical people that can use like I showed or understand npm or git or Python. We are building a module in an ecosystem where you will be able to install these tools into Claude Co-work. You'll notice if you were around for V4 and older that I have not mentioned gems or web bundles. That is because the skill ecosystem is about to blow up and all of the platforms are going to be supporting skills.

So non-technical people will be able to download any module from the BMAD method ecosystem, install it in a web browser and use it just like they would use any website. This is going to open up doors. If you build a therapy module or a medical module or an entertainment module, role-playing, companionship, anything that you want to build, you'll be able to share these creations and anybody will be able to use these. The door is open to your creativity.

And that's why I said the BMAD method, build more and architect your dreams.

## Marketplace (Coming in 2-3 Weeks)

My friends, if you can't tell how excited I am, trust me, I'm trying to hold it in. Very soon in the next two to three weeks. The community module ecosystem will open and you will be able to find the most amazing curated, approved and secure BMAD modules. We have legal modules. I mentioned entertainment and role playing modules, companionship AI modules that will help you across any aspect of your life, work, and so much more. Those security modules, creative writing modules.

If you always wanted to build that novel and have just struggled with it, the novel and creative writing module that we have in the works, trust me, it is going to be unlike anything you ever seen. It's not going to be like a lot of these things where the AI does it for you because one of the mantras of the BMAD method and for modules to become part of the BMAD method ecosystem is the AI is not Google. The AI is not ask ChatGPT a question and get an answer. No, the AI is a facilitator. Every module becomes a master facilitator to work with you as a partner to bring the best out of you. If you are an expert in a field, these will elevate you to levels that you have never been before. And if you're a beginner and new to something, it will guide you. It will help you, but it is still going to surprise you and bring the best out of you.

I've talked to so many people that have used the BMAD method in V4 and now V6 that were not engineers. They never even believed that they could build something. And so many people have already launched their own applications, built their own personal devices, built websites that they never imagined they could before. And yes, many AIs out there, they can kind of one-shot that for you, but it's you ask for something and it's going to do something for you and it's not going to be exactly what you want and it's going to be hard to evolve. But people that have worked with the facilitation agents and workflows of the BMAD method ecosystem, they've seen the difference.

## Thank You and BMAD Code Podcast

And I just want to wrap things up and say huge, huge thank you to everybody that has supported me on Buy Me a Coffee. So many people have donated. Companies have donated and started monthly subscriptions. I cannot thank you enough because it really does help. This is expensive and this takes a lot of time for myself and the rest of the community. We do pay for website hosting and compute and we're constantly running tests to make sure that our framework is tested across many different models.

So, I want to thank everybody that supports us through Buy Me a Coffee and I want to really really strongly just thank everybody in the community that helped testing with alpha, helped testing the beta, continues to donate their own time and experience to help make the BMAD method what it is and make this platform what it's going to be.

The BMAD code podcast is going to be all things AI and tech. I'm going to be talking to luminaries in the industry. We'll be talking about the BMAD method, but we will be talking about so much more because AI is going to be affecting every aspect of our lives, not just tech. Right? As I've said about the BMAD method, this is about so much more than software development and tech. And I want to share with you how AI is transforming organizations, making them AI native, how it's affecting people's lives, and what luminaries in the industry think is coming.

So very soon starting March 1st we will be launching the BMAD code podcast and again in the next two to three weeks the BMAD method marketplace is coming and it's going to be amazing.
