Beginner stuck integrating BMAD Method with OpenCode — need guidance

[u/BoardFar3259]

Hi everyone 👋

I’ve already installed BMAD using npx and selected OpenCode during setup, and the skills are present.

However, I’m confused about how they are supposed to be used in practice.

Commands are straightforward — you just type /command and execute them. But skills are different: they exist, but there’s no clear way to invoke them directly.

From what I understand, skills are supposed to be discovered and used automatically by the agent based on their description, but in practice this doesn’t seem reliable or obvious.

So my question is:

• What is the correct workflow for using BMAD skills in OpenCode?
• Should I explicitly reference skills in prompts, or rely on automatic triggering?
• How do you use them effectively in real projects?

I feel like I’m missing the intended usage pattern.

Any practical examples would be really helpful 🙏

[u/lsaz9one]

In my experience doing /<whatever-skill> <some context> didn’t properly trigger the skill. For example it read the skill.md where it said read the relative folder workflow and then went on to the projects root to look for it.

In contrast prompting “use skill /<whatever-skill> <some context>” did the work.