Sprint Status Workflow

Goal: Summarize sprint status, surface risks, and recommend the next workflow action.

Your Role: You are a Developer providing clear, actionable sprint visibility. No time estimates — focus on status, risks, and next steps.

Conventions

• Bare paths (e.g. checklist.md) resolve from the skill root.
• {skill-root} resolves to this skill's installed directory (where customize.toml lives).
• {project-root}-prefixed paths resolve from the project working directory.
• {skill-name} resolves to the skill directory's basename.

On Activation

Step 1: Resolve the Workflow Block

Run: python3 {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --key workflow

If the script fails, resolve the workflow block yourself by reading these three files in base → team → user order and applying the same structural merge rules as the resolver:

1. {skill-root}/customize.toml — defaults
2. {project-root}/_bmad/custom/{skill-name}.toml — team overrides
3. {project-root}/_bmad/custom/{skill-name}.user.toml — personal overrides

Any missing file is skipped. Scalars override, tables deep-merge, arrays of tables keyed by code or id replace matching entries and append new entries, and all other arrays append.

Step 2: Execute Prepend Steps

Execute each entry in {workflow.activation_steps_prepend} in order before proceeding.

Step 3: Load Persistent Facts

Treat every entry in {workflow.persistent_facts} as foundational context you carry for the rest of the workflow run. Entries prefixed file: are paths or globs under {project-root} — load the referenced contents as facts. All other entries are facts verbatim.

Step 4: Load Config

Load config from {project-root}/_bmad/bmm/config.yaml and resolve:

• project_name, user_name
• communication_language, document_output_language
• implementation_artifacts
• date as system-generated current datetime
• project_context = **/project-context.md (load if exists)
• YOU MUST ALWAYS SPEAK OUTPUT in your Agent communication style with the config {communication_language}

Step 5: Greet the User

Greet {user_name}, speaking in {communication_language}.

Step 6: Execute Append Steps

Execute each entry in {workflow.activation_steps_append} in order.

Activation is complete. If activation_steps_prepend or activation_steps_append were non-empty, confirm every entry was executed in order before proceeding. Do not begin the main workflow until all activation steps have been completed.

Paths

• sprint_status_file = {implementation_artifacts}/sprint-status.yaml

Input Files

Execution

<action>Validate all statuses against known values:</action>

• Valid story statuses: backlog, ready-for-dev, in-progress, review, done, drafted (legacy)
• Valid epic statuses: backlog, in-progress, done, contexted (legacy)

• Valid retrospective statuses: optional, done

  <check if="any status is unrecognized"> <output>

Unknown status detected: {{#each invalid_entries}}

• {{key}}: "{{status}}" (not recognized) {{/each}}

Valid statuses:

• Stories: backlog, ready-for-dev, in-progress, review, done
• Epics: backlog, in-progress, done
• Retrospectives: optional, done </output> <ask>How should these be corrected? {{#each invalid_entries}} {{@index}}. {{key}}: "{{status}}" → [select valid status] {{/each}}

Enter corrections (e.g., "1=in-progress, 2=backlog") or "skip" to continue without fixing:</ask> <check if="user provided corrections"> <action>Update sprint-status.yaml with corrected values</action> <action>Re-parse the file with corrected statuses</action> </check> </check>

<action>Detect risks:</action>

• IF any story has status "review": suggest /bmad:bmm:workflows:code-review
• IF any story has status "in-progress" AND no stories have status "ready-for-dev": recommend staying focused on active story
• IF all epics have status "backlog" AND no stories have status "ready-for-dev": prompt /bmad:bmm:workflows:create-story
• IF last_updated timestamp is more than 7 days old (or last_updated is missing, fall back to generated): warn "sprint-status.yaml may be stale"
• IF any story key doesn't match an epic pattern (e.g., story "5-1-..." but no "epic-5"): warn "orphaned story detected"
• IF any epic has status in-progress but has no associated stories: warn "in-progress epic has no stories" </step>

• Project: {{project}} ({{project_key}})
• Tracking: {{tracking_system}}
• Status file: {sprint_status_file}

Stories: backlog {{count_backlog}}, ready-for-dev {{count_ready}}, in-progress {{count_in_progress}}, review {{count_review}}, done {{count_done}}

Epics: backlog {{epic_backlog}}, in-progress {{epic_in_progress}}, done {{epic_done}}

Next Recommendation: /bmad:bmm:workflows:{{next_workflow_id}} ({{next_story_id}})

{{#if risks}} Risks: {{#each risks}}

• {{this}} {{/each}} {{/if}}

  </output> </step>

<action>Read and parse {sprint_status_file}</action>

<action>Validate required metadata fields exist: generated, project, project_key, tracking_system, story_location (last_updated is optional for backward compatibility)</action> <check if="any required field missing"> <template-output>is_valid = false</template-output> <template-output>error = "Missing required field(s): {{missing_fields}}"</template-output> <template-output>suggestion = "Re-run sprint-planning or add missing fields manually"</template-output> <action>Return</action> </check>

<action>Verify development_status section exists with at least one entry</action> <check if="development_status missing or empty"> <template-output>is_valid = false</template-output> <template-output>error = "development_status missing or empty"</template-output> <template-output>suggestion = "Re-run sprint-planning or repair the file manually"</template-output> <action>Return</action> </check>

<action>Validate all status values against known valid statuses:</action>

• Stories: backlog, ready-for-dev, in-progress, review, done (legacy: drafted)
• Epics: backlog, in-progress, done (legacy: contexted)
• Retrospectives: optional, done <check if="any invalid status found"> <template-output>is_valid = false</template-output> <template-output>error = "Invalid status values: {{invalid_entries}}"</template-output> <template-output>suggestion = "Fix invalid statuses in sprint-status.yaml"</template-output> <action>Return</action> </check>

<template-output>is_valid = true</template-output> <template-output>message = "sprint-status.yaml valid: metadata complete, all statuses recognized"</template-output> <action>Run: python3 {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --key workflow.on_complete — if the resolved value is non-empty, follow it as the final terminal instruction before exiting.</action> </step>