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Summary

  • Adds .github/copilot-instructions.md customized for bmad-bgreat-suite's content-only BMad plugin structure
  • No language instruction files added (no TypeScript/JS/Go/Shell source — pure Markdown/YAML content)
  • Covers: plugin install command, BMad artifact conventions (SKILL.md, workflow.md, step-*.md), agent and workflow structure

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BMad Method plugin · Markdown · YAML · npx bmad-method install · content-only (no runtime code)

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  • Documentation
    • Added repository-scoped AI guidance and clear editing conventions for plugin-style content and install workflow.
    • Clarified that no additional environment variables or test/coverage requirements are needed.
  • Chores
    • Added a repository-specific ignore rule to exclude local lead configuration artifacts.

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Deploys .github/copilot-instructions.md customized for bmad-bgreat-suite's
content-only BMad Method plugin structure (Morgan SRE, Riley DevOps, Sam
Security agents and seven guided operational workflows). No language
instruction files apply — this is a Markdown/YAML content-only repo.

Part of the org-wide rollout from petry-projects/.github PR #328.

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Adds a repository-scoped Copilot instructions file describing the BMad plugin content layout, install workflow, environment/testing expectations, and editing conventions, plus a one-line .gitignore addition for .dev-lead/.

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Copilot repository guidance
.github/copilot-instructions.md, .gitignore
Adds repository-scoped Copilot instructions describing repo-only scope, BMad plugin content layout (agents, skills, workflows, templates, manifests), local install via npx bmad-method install --custom-content ..., no required environment variables or testing framework, and editing conventions for plugin artifacts; also appends an extra .dev-lead/ ignore entry.

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Pull request overview

Adds a repository-specific .github/copilot-instructions.md to guide GitHub Copilot when working in this content-only BMad Method plugin repo, capturing structure, commands, and artifact conventions.

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  • Introduces repo-scoped Copilot instructions describing the plugin, stack, and artifact conventions.
  • Documents expected src/ layout (agents/skills/workflows/templates) and the install command.
  • Defines repo-specific guidance to treat BMad artifacts as content rather than executable code.
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.github/copilot-instructions.md:62

  • This repo already contains a root-level AGENTS.md, but the instructions link to the org-wide AGENTS.md in petry-projects/.github. Consider linking to the local AGENTS.md (and optionally mentioning the org-wide one) so repo contributors land on the most relevant, version-pinned guidance.
## Org Standards

See [petry-projects/.github — AGENTS.md](https://github.com/petry-projects/.github/blob/main/AGENTS.md).

.github/copilot-instructions.md:44

  • The “No build, test, or lint commands” line is inaccurate given the repo includes local validation tooling (e.g., tools/validate-skills.sh) and CI runs validation steps. Consider rephrasing to “no build step / no runtime tests” and list the available validation commands if you want Copilot to use them.
## Local Dev Commands

- Install plugin: `npx bmad-method install --custom-content /path/to/bmad-bgreat-suite/src`
- No build, test, or lint commands (content-only package)

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# BGreat Suite: Create Release Plan

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P1 Badge Add required YAML frontmatter to release SKILL

This SKILL.md is missing the standard YAML frontmatter (name/description) that every other workflow skill in this repo uses, so tooling that indexes or validates skills by frontmatter can fail to discover or load bgr-3-create-release-plan correctly. In this repository, the workflow skills are frontmatter-driven, so shipping one without that header creates a runtime/discovery break for this specific workflow.

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## Activation

This workflow is activated when the user invokes one of the activation phrases defined in `SKILL.md`.

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P1 Badge Start workflow by loading step-01 from activation

The workflow file defines goal/role text but never instructs the agent to open ./steps/step-01-init.md, unlike the existing workflows in this repository, so activation can terminate at description-only behavior and never execute the step sequence or template creation. Without an explicit step handoff, the new workflow is not operationally runnable as a guided flow.

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1. Ask the user to define the goals for this release.
2. The user should provide a list of goals.
3. Update the "Release Goals" section of the release plan.
4. Gate the next step until the user confirms.

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P2 Badge Persist step completion before advancing from step 2

Step 2 gates continuation but never updates stepsCompleted, while later steps assume state has advanced to [1, 2], [1, 2, 3], etc.; this creates inconsistent frontmatter state and breaks resumability/continuation logic for any session that relies on stepsCompleted. The same pattern appears in subsequent steps, so state tracking can silently drift from the actual progress.

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1. Review the release plan with the user.
2. Check for completeness and consistency.
3. Ask the user for final approval.
4. Update the status to `complete` in the frontmatter.

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P2 Badge Update readiness checklist during release validation

Validation marks the release plan complete but omits the cross-workflow production-readiness checklist update that other workflows perform in their step-05 files, so completion of this workflow is not propagated to shared readiness tracking. That causes downstream cross-plan status to be stale even when a release plan is finalized.

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header: "BGreat Suite — SRE, DevOps & Security for Production Readiness"
subheader: "Configure reliability engineering, observability, infrastructure, security, and CI/CD workflows.\nAdds three specialized agents (Morgan the SRE Lead, Riley the DevOps Lead, Sam the Security Lead), eight guided workflows, and a cross-agent operations review skill."
description: "SRE, DevOps, and Security agents with workflows for observability, incident response, disaster recovery, resilience testing, chaos engineering game days, infrastructure, capacity planning, cost optimization, CI/CD pipeline design, security planning, and cross-agent operations review"
subheader: "Configure reliability engineering, observability, infrastructure, security, and CI/CD workflows.\nAdds three specialized agents (Morgan the SRE Lead, Riley the DevOps Lead, Sam the Security Lead), nine guided workflows, and a cross-agent operations review skill."

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P2 Badge Report the correct workflow count in module metadata

The module subheader says the package adds "nine guided workflows," but src/module-help.csv now registers eleven bgr-3-create-* workflows. This mismatch makes installation/discovery metadata inaccurate and violates the repo’s own requirement that module.yaml reflect correct workflow counts, which can mislead users about available capabilities.

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[C]ontinue

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P2 Badge Provide a revise option in step-01b continuation menu

This continuation step presents only [C]ontinue, but project standards require step files to expose [C]ontinue / [R]evise and halt for user input. Without a revise path at this gate, users cannot correct initialization-state problems before progression, and workflow behavior diverges from the menu contract used by the rest of the module.

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[Approve]

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P2 Badge Use C/R gating in final validation step

The final step exposes [Approve] instead of the standard [C]ontinue / [R]evise gate used across this repo, so users lose the expected revision loop during final QA and any automation/prompting that keys on C/R menus may not advance correctly. This is inconsistent with the project rule that step files present C/R menus and halt for user choice.

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# Workflow: Create Release Plan

## Goal

The goal of this workflow is to create a comprehensive release plan that ensures a smooth and successful release.

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P2 Badge Define config and output path in release workflow

Unlike the other bgr-3-create-* workflows, this workflow omits main_config/outputFile declarations and a config-loading activation sequence, so the agent has no canonical path for {bgr_artifacts} output or runtime variables. That makes release artifacts non-deterministic and harder for cross-workflow consumers to discover consistently.

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BGreat Suite,bgr-3-create-capacity-plan,Create Capacity Plan,CC,Guided workflow to define growth modeling auto-scaling policies resource scaling triggers and capacity validation.,,3-solutioning,bgr-3-create-infrastructure,,false,bgr_artifacts,capacity plan
BGreat Suite,bgr-3-create-cost-optimization-plan,Create Cost Optimization Plan,CF,Guided workflow to define FinOps strategy resource right-sizing reserved/spot instance strategy cost tagging anomaly detection and budget alerts.,,3-solutioning,bgr-3-create-infrastructure,,false,bgr_artifacts,cost optimization plan
BGreat Suite,bgr-3-create-pipeline,Create Pipeline Plan,CP,Guided workflow to design CI/CD pipeline architecture stages deployment strategy and release gates.,,3-solutioning,bgr-3-create-infrastructure,,true,bgr_artifacts,pipeline plan
BGreat Suite,bgr-3-create-release-plan,Create Release Plan,RP,Guided workflow to create a comprehensive release plan.,,3-solutioning,bgr-3-create-pipeline,,false,bgr_artifacts,release plan

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P2 Badge Expand ops review coverage when adding release workflow

This commit registers bgr-3-create-release-plan, but the bgr-ops-review skill still explicitly audits only seven workflow outputs (src/skills/bgr-ops-review/SKILL.md, discovery table and coverage checks), so release-plan artifacts will be skipped by the cross-agent consistency review. Adding a new workflow without updating review coverage leaves a blind spot in readiness validation.

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Review — fix requested (cycle 1/3)

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Reviewed commit: 7082c5f46d7aaf9583f5ef741f96a29dfb96fc82
Cascade: triage → audit (triage: haiku 4.5 → deep: sonnet 4.6 + duck: o4-mini → audit: opus 4.7)

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Verified the actual file contents at PR head 7082c5f: the org-required .gitignore entries (.env line 23, *.pem line 108, *.key line 109) are intact in the baseline secrets section at the top of the file. The deep review's 'critical' security_regression finding was a misreading of the diff hunk at line 401, which removes DUPLICATES of those entries that existed in the merge base but were already redundant. Real blockers remain: PR is in CONFLICTING/DIRTY merge state, .gitignore has pathological .dev-lead/ duplication growing from 99 to 109 lines, and a CodeRabbit CHANGES_REQUESTED review was dismissed without evidence of resolution. The feature content (copilot-instructions.md, release-plan workflow) is content-only and low-risk.

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  • MAJOR: PR is in CONFLICTING / DIRTY merge state and cannot be merged as-is. The conflict is in .gitignore where both main and the feature branch added .dev-lead/ entries to overlapping regions. Must be rebased and resolved before merge; verify after rebase that org-required entries (.env, *.pem, *.key) remain at the top of the file in the baseline section. (.gitignore)
  • MINOR: PR head .gitignore now contains 109 consecutive duplicate '.dev-lead/' lines (up from 99 in main); diff adds 7 net duplicates. This is content-harmless but indicates a broken append/merge workflow in this branch and prior history. Recommend collapsing all duplicates to a single '.dev-lead/' entry as a follow-up cleanup. (.gitignore:401)
  • MINOR: CodeRabbit posted a CHANGES_REQUESTED review which was later dismissed; the PR author asked @dev-lead to fix all open reviewer comments. No evidence in the thread that those concerns were addressed before re-submission.
  • INFO: Feature content is content-only and low-risk: .github/copilot-instructions.md is well-structured per the org baseline, the bgr-3-create-release-plan workflow follows the documented pattern from CONTRIBUTING.md (SKILL.md + manifest + workflow.md + steps/01..05 + template), and AGENTS.md / module.yaml / module-help.csv counters update consistently from 8 to 9 workflows. CONTRIBUTING.md still says 'seven guided workflows' (stale even before this PR) — not introduced by this change.

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Closing due to merge conflict — re-implementing from fresh main

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