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[bmadcode]

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[Seanathon]

Literally just watched your YouTube video on this and popped into Github only to find you had recently pushed up this repo. Excited to learn more! Thanks for sharing with us.

[TomF77]

Excellent, had fun putting together a plan just from your video and getting gpt to make the prompts and it did a good job but great to have the real prompts now.

[bmadcode]

Thanks guys! I think they are a good consolidation of the ideas I use, but definitely all are somewhat situational meaning I definitely would not use all of them in every case. Since I recently started using the Gems in gemini - I find it so much nicer than actually pasting or using the prompts manually - curious to see if anyone finds the same!

[TomF77]

Haven't tried Gems yet but will give it a go.

[ItalianTeaLover]

It's the first time I tried using Gems, I think they're great and work a breeze!

[jjdoor]

I benefited a lot from watching your videos, I will keep following you.

[dab]

I was studying the RIPER-5 approach, which I found on the Cursor forum with good results, and just came across your videos — they look promising. Thanks for sharing!

[bmadcode]

Thanks dab - Love the idea, have been following that thread for some time also - it is sound especially if wanting to rely on a rules based flow - I suggested in the threads about that approach it would be great to basically take that and map each mode a custom cursor agent, would be more reliable and ensure you are working in the parameters of a given mode - but the principles are sound also!

I would suggest specifically creating these custom agent modes if wanting to do it all in cursor - cline also offers similar custom modes:

“RESEARCH MODE”
“INNOVATE MODE”
“PLAN MODE”
“EXECUTE MODE”
“REVIEW MODE”

[dab]

Thanks for the suggestions! I will try it at some point. Now waiting for your new video to practice new approach.

[drtao68]

Where can I see the RIPER-5 info?

[dab]

Where can I see the RIPER-5 info?

https://forum.cursor.com/t/i-created-an-amazing-mode-called-riper-5-mode-fixes-claude-3-7-drastically/65516

https://github.com/johnpeterman72/cursor_memory_riper_framework/

[ryanflavor]

New video please!!!
Like your work!!!

[imrellx]

Very much looking forward to the upcoming content. Ideas and approaches are very helpful. I can see the repo is constantly being updated. @bmadcode at some point it will be nice to see how you utilize all this in your current workflow. Thank you.

[drtao68]

I am not a programmer - I have done some HTML, CSS, and Java, as well as Visual Basic way back, but don't remember too much. I am trying to wrap my head around this and develop a system that allows me to create what I want, and do it reliably. I have been building (trying) a tool to do what you're advocating, but I find I need the tool to build it. lol

I love your ideas and want to make this work. Github is kicking my butt though.

[bmadcode]

Hi all! Thank you - I am sorry for the frequent updates - this is a distillation of many ideas I have used and it is in about the state it needs to be with this last push I made - I did move a few folders around. I am going to record and I hope publish the video explaining all of this tonight and how this can help you out!

[negadan]

Really cool framework and mimics real software development workflow in companies, what I do is use lovable.dev to generate the UI and look because
I find the design and look generated much better by giving it the deep researched prd then build from there on Cursor after importing from github, I also give the whole project folder which you can do in Gemini Advanced as context fro more required research, I didn't know about the different modes on Cursor I'll be using that for the developer and scrum master agents I don't like doing detailed searches on Cursor personally because I prefer deep research search method and cursors search doesn't work properly sometimes

[jmm2020]

I feel very fortunate to have come across your videos and intriguing approach so let me begin by saying Well done and Thank you for sharing. To be honest I think this approach was almost a forethought to the advent of AI in certain respects. As it was of course Easter today I was talking about things with my brother in law who has been a senior software developer and chief software engineer and founder of a pretty major health care software provider about this and along with my sister who worked in an Agile stack in their datamining and conversion section, how they met of course, and she was none too thrilled with her experience with it. We got a bit more into AI which is not something they are too familiar with and I explained your approach and they both made the comment I echoed above, not great for humans perse but if the AI doesn't care what it's task is then that's a pretty ideal set of guard rails for an AI.
I have been playing around with it last evening and this evening and really like the structure as guard rails for sure but I am wondering about the handoffs. I have always struggled when playing with vibe coding and refreshing model context and then seamlessly continuing without the model adding context, like making up next steps or missing assignments. I have asked it to create handoffs based on the specific documentation of the BMAD method but wondering if you have some thoughts on this.
I also added an agent almost by accident as I used a local model with access to a large vector store of current code related documents and it found quite a bit of data in my store related to UI's and such and actually made the suggestion to add an UX-UI Agent to craft and select components. I added the prompt here.
Again thanks for a great share and look forward to seeing more!

3-PM-UX-UI.md

[JasonOnz]

Saw your first video and have been waiting for this second with a project already in mind: Turning articles into podcasts on my phone... Need the third asap.

[ItalianTeaLover]

Thank you for this great work, @bmadcode! I'm not a developer and so have almost no coding experience. I tried several different prompting methodologies previously, but none worked anywhere near as well as yours, particularly for more complex projects like the one I'm working on.

One thing I found can maybe slightly improved is to include instructions for the PM to add UI-related details to the PRD. Otherwise the UX specialist can't really do anything with the PRD.

I'm itching to watch your next video so I can progress more with my project, as I still have a fair number of open questions like:

• Are agents supposed to interact with each other automatically? If so, how?
• Could you share any global / workspace specific rules you use in your IDE?
• Could you maybe show how a frontend developed in V0 can be integrated with the backend developed in say Cursor or Windsurf?

Sorry if these are very silly questions, like I said, I don't have a technical background and am learning (so I appreciate also the fact that your videos are simple to follow). Keep up the great work!

[iradwatkins]

You only have four videos but those four videos are amazing I have watched them at least four times each this gives me a whole new perspective starting from ground Zero as a vibe coder. But when I seen that Cubby's hat I knew you were great didn't have to say much more Chicago's very own looking forward to seeing your next video

[bmadcode]

Hahaha thanks so much - I figured people would either like me or hate me (Sox fans) with the Cubs hat on ROFL - glad you are on the right side of the cubs vs sox argument LOL :)

[jmm2020]

I will agree here, sometimes someone puts things in a certain light that causes multiple lights to chime off in your own head and the videos I watched were in a word inspirational and in the past week or so I have seen some things that just blew me away and absolutely terrified me based on your insights. Just on a whim to test some code I still don't completely understand I did something I have personally paid tens of thousands of dollars to have done and it did it better and in 10-15 minutes and could not have cost me a dollar. I'm Celtics (pissed right now) from end to end so wear whatever baseball hat you want you have my gratitude...:)

[dracic]

Greetings to everyone, especially @bmadcode. After getting acquainted with Cursor, his YouTube videos were like an enlightenment for me, like discovering hidden treasure beneath a pile of video materials mostly titled 'INSANE, RIP, and BUILD ANYTHING'. I am also happy that more and more people are coming here sharing their ideas and prompts. I also follow claude-task-master, but the BMAD method is much simpler, and I can say I've had quite a bit of success with it, considering the somewhat strange behavior of Cursor and its rules. I haven't had a chance to try custom modes yet, but it seems to me that it can only get better...