Release v6.0.0-alpha.8

## Installation Path Enhancements
- **Configurable Installation Directory**: Users can now specify custom installation directories during setup
- **New Default Location**: Changed default installation to `.bmad` (hidden directory) for cleaner project organization
- **Ephemeral File Handling**: Updated phase 4 implementation to use ephemeral file locations for better artifact organization

## CLI & Agent Loading Improvements
- **Optimized Agent Loading**: CLI commands now load from installed agent files, eliminating duplication
- **Installer UX Improvements**: Enhanced installer interface with version display
- **VS Code Integration**: Updated settings for new `.bmad` directory structure

## Web Bundle Enhancements
- **Party Mode Support**: All web bundles (single agent and team) now include party mode for multi-agent collaboration
- **Advanced Elicitation**: Integrated advanced elicitation capabilities into standalone agents
- **Expanded Agent Bundles**: New web bundle outputs for all agents (analyst, architect, dev, pm, sm, tea, tech-writer, ux-designer, game-*, creative-squad)
- **Team Customization**: Added default-party.csv files to bmm, bmgd, and cis modules with customizable party configurations

## Phase 4 Workflow Updates (In Progress)
- **Artifact Separation**: Initiated separation of phase 4 implementation artifacts from documentation
- **Dedicated Artifact Path**: Phase 4 items (stories, code review, sprint plan, context files) moving to dedicated location outside docs folder
- **Updated Workflows**: Modified workflow.yaml files for code-review, sprint-planning, story-context, epic-tech-context, and retrospective workflows
- **Configuration Support**: Added installer questions for artifact path selection

## IDE Integration
- **Gemini TOML**: Improved with clear loading instructions using @ commands
- **Centralized Templates**: Agent launcher markdown files now use centralized critical indication templates
- **GitHub Copilot**: Updated tool names to match official VS Code documentation (November 2025)

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed duplicate manifest entries by deduplicating module lists using Set
- Cleaned up legacy bmad/, bmd/, and web-bundles directories
- Various improvements to phase 4 workflow artifact handling

## Additional Changes
- New agent and action command header models for standardization
- Enhanced web-bundle-activation-steps fragment
- Updated web-bundler.js to support new structure
- Improved party mode instructions and workflow orchestration

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/package.json",
   "name": "bmad-method",
-  "version": "6.0.0-alpha.7",
+  "version": "6.0.0-alpha.8",
   "description": "Breakthrough Method of Agile AI-driven Development",
   "keywords": [
     "agile",