BMAD Planning & Orchestrator — a Claude Code plugin

This repository is a Claude Code plugin marketplace. It ships one plugin — BMAD Planning & Orchestrator — that harnesses the BMAD Method to plan, document, and orchestrate software work as conflict-free parallel workstreams, then hands implementation off to your dev tools.

It plans and orchestrates. It does not write the code.

Documentation site: https://aj-geddes.github.io/claude-code-bmad-skills

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🎯 Attribution & Credit

The BMAD Method™ (Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development) is created and maintained by the BMAD Code Organization. This repository is an independent Claude Code harness for the method — not an official BMAD product, and no endorsement is implied. All methodology credit belongs to the BMAD Code Organization.

• Repository: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD
• Documentation: https://docs.bmad-method.org/
• Website: https://bmadcodes.com/bmad-method/
• YouTube: @BMadCode · Discord: https://discord.gg/gk8jAdXWmj

The methodology, agent roles, workflow patterns, document shapes, and all BMAD concepts are the intellectual property of the BMAD Code Organization. See bmad-planning-orchestrator/ATTRIBUTION.md.

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Install

/plugin marketplace add aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills
/plugin install bmad-planning-orchestrator@bmad-method-harness

Then /reload-plugins (or restart Claude Code). That's it — no installer script, no npx, no copying into ~/.claude. Updates flow through the marketplace.

Local development: claude --plugin-dir ./bmad-planning-orchestrator

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What you get

The plugin runs the BMAD lifecycle — Analysis → Planning → Solutioning → Implementation-handoff — right-sized by an interactive track (Quick Flow / BMad Method / Enterprise), and stops at a ready-for-dev story file plus a tool-agnostic handoff manifest.

Its signature contribution is making parallel AI development safe:

• One architecture prevents semantic conflicts (API style, data model, naming, security) across agents.
• Stories scoped to disjoint files, dependency-ordered into parallel waves, prevent file/merge conflicts.
• handoff-manifest.json lets any dev runner pick up the work.

Full skill catalog, flow diagram, and the handoff contract are in the plugin README: bmad-planning-orchestrator/README.md.

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Why a plugin (and why planning-only)?

This project began as a suite of Claude Code skills installed by a bash/ PowerShell script. Two things changed:

1. Claude Code added plugins + marketplaces — a first-class way to distribute and version a bundle of skills, agents, and hooks. We adopted it.
2. The BMAD Method advanced to a skills-centric v6.x and the broader ecosystem grew capable dev tools. So we refocused: BMAD does what it is best at — planning and orchestration — and lets specialized tools do the coding. The developer/dev-story/lint/coverage pieces were removed.

If you used the old skills install, see MIGRATION.md.

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Repository layout

claude-code-bmad-skills/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json          # the marketplace (one plugin)
├── bmad-planning-orchestrator/   # ← the plugin
│   ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│   ├── skills/                   # 20 planning/orchestration skills
│   ├── agents/                   # planning subagents
│   ├── hooks/                    # next-step nudges
│   ├── scripts/  resources/      # shared utils + guides
│   ├── README.md  ATTRIBUTION.md  LICENSE  CHANGELOG.md
├── docs/                         # GitHub Pages site
├── CLAUDE.md  CONTRIBUTING.md  MIGRATION.md  LICENSE

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. The one rule that defines this project: every contribution stays on the planning/orchestration side of the line — nothing here writes, runs, tests, or reviews application code.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The BMAD Method™ name and methodology belong to the BMAD Code Organization; this license covers only the Claude Code plugin implementation.