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Plans you approve

When a change is big or risky, ask for a plan first. In Plan mode the agent can only read and search; it answers with a step-by-step plan and changes nothing until you approve it.

Asking for a plan#

1. Switch the composer to Plan: pick it in the mode pill, press Shift+Tab, or type /plan.
2. Describe what you want, as you would in Build mode.

The run's top agent is called the Planner. It reads the code it needs and writes the plan into its card.

Approve, revise or decline#

A finished plan carries three buttons at the foot of its card (also in the side chat and on its row in the agents pane):

• ✓ Approve asks one question: who implements it?
  • Assistant: one agent, full access, in this chat.
  • Swarm: a lead that fans the work out to workers.
• ✎ Revise lets you write what to change; the Planner produces a new plan as a follow-up.
• ✕ Decline keeps the plan on the record and runs nothing.

After Approve, the implementation starts at once with the plan as its instructions: follow the steps in order, do not re-plan, verify the work the way the plan says, and finish with what changed, file by file. The composer switches back to Build.

Each plan can be decided once. Clicking a button on a plan that was already approved, revised or declined says the plan is no longer open.

Following the implementation#

The implementation hangs under its plan: in the transcript its card sits inside the plan's card, and in the agents pane it appears directly under the Planner with a ↳ implements plan mark. The plan's card shows ↳ implemented by … with the implementation's state.

A plan with a second opinion#

To have another model check the plan before anything is implemented, use Consensus: a judge reviews the planner's plan, round by round, until it approves.