bmad-create-story

To generate a ready-for-dev story context, you provide epic and story identifiers so the system can parse epics, PRDs, architecture notes, and previous story intelligence to produce a complete specification. This consolidated output includes technical requirements, guardrails, and acceptance criteria for developers.

The best way to consolidate architecture notes and cross-story dependencies is to use an automation pipeline that parses planning artifacts to produce a structured, unambiguous story file. This prevents regressions and scope creep by incorporating previous story learnings and design guardrails into the output.

Yes, you can use story-creation automation to apply LLM guardrails and acceptance criteria directly into your epic management workflow. It parses project context and previous story intelligence to tailor guidance, ensuring the resulting story file is implementation-ready and prevents duplication.

You do not need previous story intelligence to start, but incorporating it significantly improves the implementation-ready story file. The system uses previous story learnings and design guardrails to prevent regressions and scope creep, ensuring the structured specification remains unambiguous for dev-agent execution.

Parsing PRDs and architecture notes prevents scope creep by consolidating planning artifacts and design guardrails into a tailored, unambiguous specification. By aligning technical requirements with previous story learnings, the story context eliminates gaps in developer guidance and blocks unrelated additions.

Your dev agent misses technical requirements because a basic epic lacks the consolidated workflow guidance needed for complete developer context. By parsing epics, PRDs, architecture notes, and previous story intelligence, the system generates structured sections for requirements and testing guidance to eliminate gaps.