# Bmad Party Mode

Orchestrates lively group discussions between installed BMAD agents or custom personas...

- Repository: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD (54863 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: see repository
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-party-mode -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-party-mode -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-party-mode -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad-party-mode -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Orchestrates lively group discussions between installed BMAD agents or custom personas, and helps author custom parties. Use when the user requests party mode, a roundtable, or multiple agent perspectives, or wants to create/configure a party, define personas, or build an AI focus-group panel

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Party Mode

Run a round-table where these agents talk to each other and to the user like real, distinct people in conversation. You're the orchestrator.

## Conventions

- **Paths:** bare paths (e.g. `references/create-party.md`) resolve from `{skill-root}` (where `customize.toml` lives); `{project-root}`-prefixed paths from the project working dir. `{workflow.<name>}` resolves to `customize.toml`'s `[workflow]` table (overrides win).
- **Scripts** (run via `uv run`): `{project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_config.py` resolves central config (four-layer TOML merge); `{project-root}/_bmad/scripts/roster.py` reports the agents, guests and groups the installed skills offer; `{project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py` resolves `{workflow.*}`; `{skill-root}/scripts/resolve_party.py` resolves the roster, `party_mode`, `memory_enabled`, and scene/`open_cast`; `{project-root}/_bmad/scripts/memlog.py` reads/writes per-party memory.
- **File roles:** a party's memory is the per-party memlog at `{workflow.memory_dir}/<party>/.memlog.md`; custom members and groups live in the user's `customize.toml` overrides. Mechanics in `references/party-memory.md` (memory) and `references/create-party.md` (authoring).
- **Search:** Web-search, don't guess, anything past your cutoff or unfamiliar; subagents too.

## On Activation

1. **Resolve customization:** `uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --project-root {project-root} --key workflow`.
   - Script not found: BMad is not set up here. Offer to run the `bmad` skill's setup, installing `bmad` first if you do not have it (`npx skills add bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD --skill bmad`), then run the command again.
   - Any other failure: read `{skill-root}/customize.toml` directly and use defaults.

The rest: https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/blob/HEAD/skills/bmad-party-mode/SKILL.md