# Questions and fixes · BMAD+ documentation

> Short answers to what newcomers ask, and what to do when something fails.

Canonical: https://bmad-plus.rochetta.fr/docs/faq/
Language: en
BMAD+ version: 0.23.1
Documentation reviewed: 2026-10-19
Author: Laurent Rochetta
License: MIT

[BMAD+ documentation](https://bmad-plus.rochetta.fr/docs/)

## Pages in this section

- [Frequently asked questions](https://bmad-plus.rochetta.fr/docs/faq/faq/): Thirty-four answers to what newcomers ask: what BMAD+ is, installing and updating, agents and autopilot, swarms, reviews and recipes, data and legal questions, memory and teams. Each answer is exact.
- [Troubleshooting](https://bmad-plus.rochetta.fr/docs/faq/troubleshooting/): Symptom, cause, fix for the failures BMAD+ can actually produce: refused installs and updates, stale locks, doctor errors, stale instructions, needs-approval swarms, not-ready intakes, red gates.
- [Glossary](https://bmad-plus.rochetta.fr/docs/faq/glossary/): Every term used in the BMAD+ documentation, in plain words: host, spine, pack, skill, intake, swarm, seed, checkpoint, gate, receipt, recipe and the status words the tools print, grouped by theme.

[Source on GitHub](https://github.com/lrochetta/BMAD-PLUS)