bmad-create-epics-and-stories

Run this workflow after your PRD and architecture documents exist. It extracts all functional and non-functional requirements, groups them into user-value epics with your approval, then generates stories with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria saved to epics.md.

A PRD containing functional and non-functional requirements and an Architecture document are required. A UX design document is optional but treated as a first-class input, with its requirements extracted as separate UX-DR items.

Yes. The document discovery step searches for whole documents first, then falls back to sharded folders with an index.md. It also supports bmad-ux spine pairs consisting of DESIGN.md and EXPERIENCE.md files.

Stories must be independently completable in sequence, building only on previous stories. The final validation step explicitly checks for forward dependencies and rejects stories that require future stories to function.

The final validation step performs an FR coverage check, verifying every functional requirement maps to at least one story with adequate acceptance criteria. Incomplete coverage blocks workflow completion until resolved.