Turn conviction into structured, testable, sequenced work
The BA Agent runs the Shape and Gate phases of the Cascades methodology — framing problems, pinning decisions, and writing paired PRDs and tech specs with TDD-ready acceptance criteria. What used to take a week of meetings takes 40 minutes.
What the BA Agent does
Six capabilities that turn a conviction into shaped, gated, ready-to-ship work — without a week of meetings.
MCP Tools
The agent's primary interface. Task board management, initiative and project operations, PRD and tech spec authoring, user and org lookups, notifications. It operates the system directly — not through summaries.
Skills
Domain-specific workflows the agent loads on demand: bug intake, NFR discovery, shaping sessions, TDD acceptance criteria. Skills are modular; the agent applies the right one at the right time.
Memory Management
A three-layer context model: important info (durable, cross-session), agent memory (topic summaries, promoted and demoted by the agent), and working notes (ephemeral, per-topic). The agent curates its own memory.
Conversation Drift Detection
The agent detects when a conversation has shifted topic and forks a new context rather than derailing the current one. Keeps sessions focused.
Token Optimization
Concise summaries, deprecated topic compression, context budgeting. The agent manages its own token footprint to stay effective across long sessions.
The Shaping Experience
The headline capability. Shaping a feature with the BA Agent: problem framing, rabbit hole exploration, decision pinning, PRD and tech spec authoring, task creation with TDD-ready acceptance criteria. What used to take a week of meetings takes 40 minutes.
The BA Agent in action
Shaping a feature, managing the task board, and writing specs. The frames below preview each capability.
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