leanwheel-skills — a lean port of the BMAD Method for lower token budgets

[rterakedis]

First, ✨ many thanks ✨ to the entire team of contributors behind BMAD. I use it at work and it's a genuinely great tool — none of this exists without the work you all put in. 🙏

For some hobby projects at home on Claude Pro, though, I noticed I was sometimes bumping up against usage limits. So I set out to see if I could put together a "lite" version of BMAD that's friendlier to smaller token budgets while keeping the core of the workflows intact.

I've dropped some skills and combined others along the way, and I've landed on something that's worked well for me — figured I'd share it back with the community in case it's useful to anyone else in the same boat. 🙂

I make no promises and your mileage may vary, but feel free to give it a try:
👉 https://github.com/rterakedis/leanwheel-skills

A bit more detail here:

• 📖 Comparison to BMAD
• 💰 Saving Token Budget
• ✅ Optional GitHub Tracking

Thanks again to the BMAD team and community for building something worth riffing on. 🎉

[dracic]

@rterakedis, the MIT license does not grant you the right to use the original author's name or project branding.

https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/blob/main/LICENSE

[rterakedis]

Thanks for the heads up - I’ll modify where necessary!

[rterakedis]

@dracic — you were right, thanks for flagging it. I renamed the project to leanwheel-skills (skills, agents, and plugin identity all updated) so it's no longer using a BMad-derived name, and I also restored upstream's MIT copyright/permission notice in LICENSE, which had been dropped. The only remaining mentions of BMAD/BMad are referential — attribution and comparison to the original — which their TRADEMARK.md explicitly permits. New repo: https://github.com/rterakedis/leanwheel-skills

[rterakedis]

Continuing to iterate on the project for anyone interested: A Plugin, a Pile of New Skills, and Better Token Math