[simonw]

I haven't missed planning mode myself. I tend to tell it "write a detailed plan first in a file called spec.md for me to review", then use that as the ongoing plan.

I like that it ends up in the repo as it means it survives compaction or lets me start a fresh session entirely.

[s900mhz]

I was doing the same, but recently I noticed that Claude now writes its plans to a markdown file somewhere nested in the ~/.claude/plans directory. It will carry a reference to it through compaction. Basically mimicking my own workflow!

This can be customized via a shell env variable that I cannot remember ATM.

The downside (upside?) is that the plan will not end up in your repo. Which sometimes I want. I love the native plan mode though.

[theshrike79]

This is one of the small things that shows me Anthropic is dogfooding their own system.

Which Codex and Gemini-cli teams aren't doing.

[dbbk]

Plans in plan mode also survive compaction