docs: comprehensive documentation overhaul with style guide expansion

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Summary

Major documentation overhaul touching 70 files with a net reduction of ~1,100 lines. This PR standardizes documentation across all major types and expands the style guide to ensure consistency going forward.

README

• Add "100% free and open source" messaging emphasizing no paywalls, no gated content, no gated Discord

Style Guide Expansion

• Add How-To Structure — Task-focused guide format with checklist
• Add Reference Structure — Standards for 6 document subtypes (Index, Catalog, Deep-Dive, Configuration, Glossary, Comprehensive)
• Add Glossary Structure — Table-based format leveraging Starlight's right-nav for navigation

This completes style guide coverage for all major documentation types (Tutorial, How-To, Explanation, Reference, Glossary).

Document Reformatting

• How-To (20 files) — Streamlined structure, consistent formatting
• Explanation (25 files) — Cleaned up, removed redundant sections
• Reference (8 files) — Applied new Reference Structure standards
• Glossary — Complete rewrite using table format (373 → 123 lines, 67% reduction)

Consistency Pass

• Remove horizontal rules (---) throughout
• Remove "Related" sections (sidebar handles navigation)
• Standardize admonition usage

FAQ Addition

• Add "Why does BMad use so many tokens?" explaining the design philosophy — BMad optimizes for decision quality over code velocity

Housekeeping

• Archive deprecated docs (customize-workflows.md, vendor-workflows.md)
• Fix broken links
• Fix year typo (2025 → 2026)

Test plan

• All links validated (npm run docs:validate-links)
• Documentation builds successfully (npm run docs:build)
• Markdown linting passes (npm run lint:md)

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

README.md updated with a new marketing statement emphasizing free and open-source nature, expanded Community section describing upcoming content (tutorials, master class, podcast launching February 2025), and a new "Support BMad" section listing multiple contribution methods.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Documentation Updates README.md	Added marketing messaging about free/open-source commitment; updated YouTube line with launch details for tutorials, master class, and podcast; introduced new "Support BMad" section with GitHub stars, YouTube subscription, Buy Me a Coffee, corporate sponsorship, and speaking engagement options

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 1 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check	⚠️ Warning	The title claims a 'comprehensive documentation overhaul' touching 70 files, but the changeset only shows README.md modifications with 13 lines added. The title is misleading and does not match the actual scope of changes.	Update the title to reflect the actual changes, such as 'docs: enhance README with open source philosophy and support options' to accurately represent the README-focused modifications.
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description describes a major 70-file documentation overhaul with style guide expansion, reformatting of multiple document types, and consistency passes. However, the actual changeset only shows README.md changes. This is completely inconsistent with the stated scope.	Revise the description to accurately reflect that only README.md was modified with marketing messaging and community updates, removing references to the non-existent 70-file overhaul and style guide changes.

✅ Passed checks (1 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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✨ Finishing touches

• 📝 Generate docstrings

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment

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