Claude Code Best Usage Tip!

[bmadcode]

On the V4 Alpha Branch (which will be the main branch in the coming days) - the concept of ide agents, agents, and personas have all merged into optimized agents.

Just agents - they are for the web build and the ide, no change needed, no external personas, and they are all size optimzied. Still alpha and doing some testing of a few things, but generally stable.

Now to claude-code: claude-code supports custom commands, meaning you can make your own slash commands. And it can be any markdown file content that is a clear command. The agent files now all start with a clear command.

So - for claude code, if you copy all the agent files as they are as of this message time (updated about an hour ago) to the .claude/commands/ folder - and then RESTART claude code (i forgot that the first time and thought it was broken)

you can now start any agent just by typing / such as /pm, /sm, /dev, /analyst!

Initial testing as been working great! Will be working to optimize if futher.

BTW this same concept SHOULD work for windsurf ALWAYS type rules! And it does work in cursor also!

There are also two new BMAD agents, BMAD-Orchestrator, and BMAD-Master. BMAD-Master is 1 agent that can do EVERYTHING (jack of all trades master of none), and the BMAD-Orchestrator can morph to any agent, now in the ide, similar to the web agent.

Please test this all out, let me know how it works, and we can get this out of alpha!

[bmadcode]

[big-jay9]

This is awesome! Did you have to edit anything in the files to optimize it for Claude, or did you keep the same?

[bmadcode]

Since I just switched to Claude Code about a week ago, I will say I did not optimize anything for it specifically. Now that I have v4 finally is a almost complete state, I need to get back to working on another project and will see if there are any optimizations needed specifically for Claude Code.

[SunshinePeace213]

Sounds Great. Have you ever tried Claude Code with Claude 4 Sonnet Opus Model yet? Will apply for handling bmad agent with gaining some improvement on it? It seems it will save a lot of costs when talking to our teammates if we subscribe the Claude Code Plan. It sounds like an vauable investment for our teammates

[bmadcode]

yes - I do use it with Opus, its great. I think its a much better value for the access to a powerful model it gives. Using cursor with Opus would easily eat up the cost of one month in 1 day.