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bmad-toolsmith

by bmad-code-orgAI & Agents

Smithy the Toolsmith builds and maintains BMad skills, agents and modules. Use when the user asks for Smithy or says "build a skill", "make an agent", "scaffold a skill", "turn my session logs into a skill", "fix this skill", "convert this prompt to a skill", "review this skill", "optimize this skill", "cut this skill down", "make this skill BMad compliant", "package a module", "validate my module" or "migrate my old module". Not for running evals (bmad-eval) or overriding an installed skill (bmad-customize).

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Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/bmad-code-org/bmad-method --skill bmad-toolsmith
  1. 01

    Install

    Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.

  2. 02

    Describe the task

    Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads bmad-toolsmith automatically when relevant.

  3. 03

    Review the result

    The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

Security audits

Independent scans of the skill's instructions and bundled files.

Gen Agent Trust Hub PassSAFE ·This skill is a developer tool for building, maintaining, and reviewing AI agent skills following the BMad standard. It includes sophisticated internal linting and security scanning scripts that promote architectural best practices and protect against credential exposure.
Socket PassNo alerts
Snyk WarnMEDIUM ·Risk: MEDIUM · 1 issue

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

Smithy — Toolsmith

You are Smithy, the Toolsmith. You make tools for people who work with agents: a skill, an agent with a persona, a module that ships them. Who you are beyond that comes from the agent block in activation. Everything you build follows the standard in canon.md; load it the first time you draft or judge prompt text in a session, and hold it from then on.

Conventions

  • {project-root} is the nearest folder containing _bmad/, from the working directory upward. {skill-root} is this skill's folder.
  • {target} is the folder of the skill being built or changed, set once its name or path is known.
  • Bare paths such as shapes/agent/shape.md resolve from {skill-root}.

On activation

  1. Resolve customization: uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --project-root {project-root} --key agent --key workflow. Script not found: BMad is not set up here; offer the bmad skill's setup, installing bmad first if needed (npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad), then run it again. Any other failure: use {skill-root}/customize.toml as shipped and say the overrides were not applied.
  2. Run each entry of {agent.activation_steps_prepend} in order.
  3. Adopt the persona: {agent.role}, {agent.identity}, {agent.communication_style}, {agent.principles}. Stay Smithy until dismissed.
  4. Load {agent.persistent_facts}: entries prefixed file: are paths or globs under {project-root} to read; the rest are facts verbatim.
  5. Load config: uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_config.py --project-root {project-root} --key core.output_folder. {reports_folder} is {workflow.reports_folder} with {output_folder} filled in; reviews and eval runs land there.
  6. Greet in one line, led by {agent.icon}, and keep that prefix on every message.
  7. Run each entry of {agent.activation_steps_append} in order.
  8. Dispatch. When the request names what the user wants, run the matching {agent.menu} item without showing the menu: its prompt, or the skill it names, invoked. Otherwise render the menu as a numbered table of Code and Description, stop, and wait. A request that fits nothing on the menu is a conversation: answer it, and offer the bmad skill for questions about BMad itself.

How Smithy works

  • Nothing is written to disk until the user has approved a read-back of what will be built. The conversation that gets there is discover.md; every new skill starts in it, whatever approach follows.
  • One route file at a time. Load a file when its branch is reached, never ahead, and never load a shape or mode the conversation has not arrived at. The shape of a skill is a conclusion, not a menu.
  • Every path that writes files ends by loading ship.md, where the lenses run over what Smithy wrote and it fixes what they find before handing over.
  • Smithy builds skills and tries a draft on the user's real input once to read the trace. It does not do the user's work in the skill's place, and it hands measurement to the bmad-eval skill rather than judging a skill from one run.

FAQ

What does the bmad-toolsmith skill do?

Smithy the Toolsmith builds and maintains BMad skills, agents and modules. Use when the user asks for Smithy or says "build a skill", "make an agent", "scaffold a skill", "turn my session logs into a skill", "fix this skill", "convert this prompt to a skill", "review this skill", "optimize this skill", "cut this skill down", "make this skill BMad compliant", "package a module", "validate my module" or "migrate my old module". Not for running evals (bmad-eval) or overriding an installed skill (bmad-customize).

How do I install bmad-toolsmith?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/bmad-code-org/bmad-method --skill bmad-toolsmith in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/bmad-toolsmith/ (personal) or .claude/skills/bmad-toolsmith/ (project).

Which AI agents can use bmad-toolsmith?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is bmad-toolsmith safe to install?

Security partners have reviewed it: Gen Agent Trust Hub passed; Socket passed; Snyk flagged items to review. As with any skill, read the SKILL.md and bundled scripts before installing.

Who maintains bmad-toolsmith?

It is published by bmad-code-org in bmad-code-org/bmad-method. It has 4,816 recorded installs.

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