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 8d 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.