Alex Verkhovsky
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Walk back two bits of overprompting from #2629: - The `implementation_handoff` guardrail block was premature mitigation to speculative failure modes (don't commit, don't revert unrelated changes, don't edit the spec). Collapse the default to what it should have always been: read the spec fully, load its `context:`, implement, report back. The key stays customizable — that seam exists to run implementation on a different model or an external tool via bash — only the default shrinks. - Revert the Code Map spec-template enrichment. Granular entries were always permitted; step-02 already instructs planning to populate the Code Map, so the template comment/example nudge was redundant and half-relegitimized a root cause (#2629) that the natural experiment had already disproved. Both skills' handoffs are now identical again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Modules
BMad Method extends with official modules for specialized domains. Available during installation or anytime after.
| Module | Purpose |
|---|---|
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