# bmad-run-inspector

Reads bmad-loop run artifacts from .bmad-loop/runs/ — logs, journals, task state. Answers live questions about what the agent is doing and explains what went wrong in past runs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 88
- Author: tronghieu
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/bmad-run-inspector

## What it does

Parses the bmad-loop run directory and explains what happened. Answers live: is the loop stuck, is the agent running, what is it working on. After a run ends, helps diagnose why it failed and where tokens went.

Treats logs as terminal redraws, not transcripts. Long tool output is collapsed in the log with markers `… +N lines`, and those lines don't exist in the file. So the skill skips claiming tests passed or failed from the log alone; instead it checks artifacts and confirms which commands ran. Reliable diagnosis needs a project adapter at `_project/bmad-loop/environment.toml` that holds your stack constants: which IDE, which test runner and type checker, which multiplexer. If the adapter is missing, the skill helps bootstrap it with `bootstrap_adapter.py`.

Runs on Python 3.9+ on the host, though bmad-loop itself needs 3.11+. Has read access to run artifacts, git, processes, and tmux/psmux — uses mutations (`mux set`, `resolve`, `run`) only with your explicit go-ahead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill bmad-run-inspector -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/bmad-run-inspector/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill bmad-run-inspector -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill bmad-run-inspector -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install tronghieu/agent-skills bmad-run-inspector
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill bmad-run-inspector -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills --path skills/bmad-run-inspector
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tronghieu/agent-skills --skill bmad-run-inspector -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/tronghieu/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/bmad-run-inspector/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- check whether the agent is stuck right now or the loop is running
- find which step failed and why
- see which tool commands ran and what they returned
- count tokens spent and trace where they went
- understand why verification failed and where code errors are

## Example prompts
- Is the loop alive right now? What is the agent doing?
- Why did the run stop? Read the last run artifacts and explain.
- How many tokens were burned, which tests failed, where are the errors?

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: bmad-run-inspector
description: >-
  Inspect and explain bmad-loop run artifacts under `.bmad-loop/runs/`. Use for
  live health checks ("is it stuck?", "is the loop alive?", "what is the agent
  doing?") and post-run forensics ("what happened?", "why did story X fail?",
  "where did the tokens go?"). Also triggers on "monitor/check/summarize the
  loop", "why did the run pause?", Vietnamese "theo dõi bmad loop", "phân tích
  run", "đọc log của run", and equivalent requests in other languages. Use only
  for bmad-loop's own run artifacts, not application runtime logs or CI-provider
  build logs.
allowed-tools: Read Glob Grep Bash(python3 *) Bash(bmad-loop *) Bash(git *) Bash(ls *) Bash(ps *) Bash(wc *) Bash(tmux *) Bash(psmux *)
---

# BMAD Run Inspector

Verified against [bmad-loop 0.13.2](https://github.com/bmad-code-org/bmad-loop/releases/tag/v0.13.2).
The bundled scripts run on Python 3.9+. `bmad-loop` itself needs 3.11+, but it often lives in
an isolated environment while the host's `python3` is still stock macOS 3.9.

A run leaves a directory of evidence. This skill is about reading it honestly: saying what it
proves, and refusing to say what it doesn't.

## The one thing to get right

**The `.log` file is a terminal redraw capture, not a transcript.** The coding CLI paints a
live TUI into a tmux or psmux pane. The capture records every repaint.

One adapter differs. `opencode-http` writes a real transcript instead. Read
`references/log-forensics.md` before applying any of this to it.

Three consequences:

- Each logical line appears hundreds of times, growing character by character. `tail -50`
  returns fragments of one frame, not the last 50 things that happened.
- Whitespace is dropped unpredictably. `Done(10tooluses·99.2ktokens·1m0s)` is one real line.
- **Long tool output is collapsed into `… +N lines (ctrl+o to expand)` and never painted.**
  Those lines do not exist in the file.

The third one decides what you may claim. Test summaries sit inside collapsed blocks. Your test
runner's pass/fail line is long output, so the TUI hides it. One measured 4.35 MB log had 58
collapse markers hiding roughly 2,463 lines. Its largest single block was 484 lines.

So **never report that tests passed or failed based on the log.** Report which test *commands*
ran. The verdict comes from "Deciding whether verify passed" below.

**The heuristics are stack-specific. They fail quietly.** `scripts/extract_transcript.py`
matches one coding CLI's TUI vocabulary: its spinner frames, its `Done(N tool uses · T tokens ·
Ns)` footer, its `… +N lines (ctrl+o to expand)` marker. Its `results` and `errors` sections
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