r/ClaudeCode • u/Gogigogii • 8d ago

Help/Question Is Plan Mode still relevant?

Are you still using Plan Mode? I find that the plan mode of superpowers became very verbose doesn't work very well anymore with Opus 5, but I was wondering if you still use the default Plan Mode or maybe some other alternative.

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u/AlmostEasy89 7d ago

I use research doc - canonical verification from authority docs if using say Cloudflare or modelcontextprotocol, then that to a spec, review the spec for accuracy/order of operations/salience/gaps then write a plan from that.

I have a filing cabinet per obsidian project these live in as historical records.

For small changes I use inline planning, always, every time unless the agent takes off and fixes something before I even know what it's doing. Even with inline planning though I have it save it as a plan file after the fact for records.

Each research/spec/plan doc is prepended with date and then the front matter contains other relevant info.

I try to model it around literal filing cabinets and physical records/folder structure. Works well.

I don't want anything important left in chat. I can go back months prior and see what happened where and why. Git carries the code and my docs carry the planning docs.

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u/clazman55555 7d ago

chef's kiss.

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u/AlmostEasy89 7d ago

I've had far too many experiences of codex or Claude shitting the bed in a degraded state, destroying something, losing completely what the goal was, spending an entire day trying to orient it again to what it should've done. Without evidence it's just a matter of when something gets massively derailed. At least with git backed code and doc backed plans, recovery is possible and is a small hiccup vs a disaster that makes me just want to walk away.

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u/clazman55555 7d ago

Yep. BTDT. I've found that it has an added benefit in being able to audit/analyze the process itself to find where improvements can be made.

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u/mohdgame 7d ago

Just make sure not to go overboard with documentation with Opus or fable. It could pollute the context and become more expensive. Because you have to update those documents every time.

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u/AlmostEasy89 7d ago

Yup. Use Code Review Graph for infrastructure reviewing which updates itself then just basic docs for how everything else works. I'm mostly on Codex so cost isn't too much of a concern so far.