[JyB]

Same question. I don’t understand what they mean by that. It obviously seem pretty central to how Claude Code is so effective.

[kjhughes]

I thought they meant that it's a noop as a tool in the sense that it takes no external action. It seems nonetheless effective as a means of organizing reasoning and expressing status along the way.

[kobstrtr]

just for chain of thought TodoWrite would be sufficient as a tool wouldn‘t it?