Major Enhancements:

- Installation path is now fully configurable, allowing users to specify custom installation directories during setup
  - Default installation location changed to .bmad (hidden directory) for cleaner project root organization

    Web Bundle Improvements:

    - All web bundles (single agent and team) now include party mode support for multi-agent collaboration!
    - Advanced elicitation capabilities integrated into standalone agents
    - All bundles enhanced with party mode agent manifests
    - Added default-party.csv files to bmm, bmgd, and cis module teams
    - The default party file is what will be used with single agent bundles. teams can customize for different party configurations before web bundling through a setting in the team yaml file
    - New web bundle outputs for all agents (analyst, architect, dev, pm, sm, tea, tech-writer, ux-designer, game-*, creative-squad)

    Phase 4 Workflow Updates (In Progress):

    - Initiated shift to separate phase 4 implementation artifacts from documentation
        - Phase 4 implementation artifacts (stories, code review, sprint plan, context files) will move to dedicated location outside docs folder
        - Installer questions and configuration added for artifact path selection
        - Updated workflow.yaml files for code-review, sprint-planning, story-context, epic-tech-context, and retrospective workflows to support this, but still might require some udpates

    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
    - VS Code settings updated for new .bmad directory
    - Party mode instructions and workflow enhanced for better orchestration

   IDE Installer Updates:

    - Show version number of installer in cli
    - improved Installer UX
    - Gemini TOML Improved to have clear loading instructions with @ commands
    - All tools agent launcher mds improved to use a central file template critical indication isntead of hardcoding in 2 different locations.

.bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/create-story/workflow.yaml

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+name: create-story
+description: "Create the next user story markdown from epics/PRD and architecture, using a standard template and saving to the stories folder"
+author: "BMad"
+
+# Critical variables from config
+config_source: "{project-root}/.bmad/bmm/config.yaml"
+output_folder: "{config_source}:output_folder"
+user_name: "{config_source}:user_name"
+communication_language: "{config_source}:communication_language"
+date: system-generated
+
+# Workflow components
+installed_path: "{project-root}/.bmad/bmm/workflows/4-implementation/create-story"
+template: "{installed_path}/template.md"
+instructions: "{installed_path}/instructions.md"
+validation: "{installed_path}/checklist.md"
+
+# Variables and inputs
+variables:
+  story_dir: "{config_source}:dev_ephemeral_location" # Directory where stories are stored
+  epics_file: "{output_folder}/epics.md" # Preferred source for epic/story breakdown
+  prd_file: "{output_folder}/PRD.md" # Fallback for requirements
+  architecture_file: "{output_folder}/architecture.md" # Optional architecture context
+  tech_spec_file: "" # Will be auto-discovered from docs as tech-spec-epic-{{epic_num}}-*.md
+  tech_spec_search_dir: "{project-root}/docs"
+  tech_spec_glob_template: "tech-spec-epic-{{epic_num}}*.md"
+  arch_docs_search_dirs: |
+    - "{project-root}/docs"
+    - "{output_folder}"
+  arch_docs_file_names: |
+    - architecture.md
+    - infrastructure-architecture.md
+  story_title: "" # Will be elicited if not derivable
+  epic_num: 1
+  story_num: 1
+  non_interactive: true # Generate without elicitation; avoid interactive prompts
+
+# Output configuration
+# Uses story_key from sprint-status.yaml (e.g., "1-2-user-authentication")
+default_output_file: "{story_dir}/{{story_key}}.md"
+
+recommended_inputs:
+  - epics: "Epic breakdown (epics.md)"
+  - prd: "PRD document"
+  - architecture: "Architecture (optional)"
+
+# Smart input file references - handles both whole docs and sharded docs
+# Priority: Whole document first, then sharded version
+# Strategy: SELECTIVE LOAD - only load the specific epic needed for this story
+input_file_patterns:
+  prd:
+    whole: "{output_folder}/*prd*.md"
+    sharded: "{output_folder}/*prd*/index.md"
+
+  tech_spec:
+    whole: "{output_folder}/tech-spec.md"
+
+  architecture:
+    whole: "{output_folder}/*architecture*.md"
+    sharded: "{output_folder}/*architecture*/index.md"
+
+  ux_design:
+    whole: "{output_folder}/*ux*.md"
+    sharded: "{output_folder}/*ux*/index.md"
+
+  epics:
+    whole: "{output_folder}/*epic*.md"
+    sharded_index: "{output_folder}/*epic*/index.md"
+    sharded_single: "{output_folder}/*epic*/epic-{{epic_num}}.md"
+
+  document_project:
+    sharded: "{output_folder}/docs/index.md"
+
+standalone: true