4/3/2026 at 9:50:24 AM
> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature.It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible. It may ask a couple of questions before writing it, but there's always going to be parts that need editing. Yet there's no good "Sounds good, but it needs these edits" option after it presents you the plan. It gives you (paraphrased) "1. Proceed with auto-edits 2. Proceed without auto-edits 3. Cancel the plan". Note that 3 doesn't even write the plan to the file at all, even if it's 95% fine. So your options are either A. Pick 1 or 2, immediately press escape to interrupt, then tell it to make edits or B. Pick 3, tell it to make edits, after which it has to write the entire plan from scratch again.
This is such bad UX that it really feels like either 1. Anthropic employees don't use Claude Code much - this seems incredibly unlikely or 2. It's intended to burn output tokens as it has to write a huge plan again.
IMO Superpowers isn't the ideal solution because it too lacks flexibility, but including the "plan sketch" stage is sure an improvement.
by deaux
4/3/2026 at 11:31:45 AM
I've found [Plannotator]( https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator) useful for this. It opens the plan on a minimal web page so I can highlight and add comments. This is then passed back to Claude code. Works well enough for now. But ideally this should be natively implemented in cc.by keheliya
4/3/2026 at 1:22:18 PM
I extensively tried to use this and couldn't get it working. I'm running CC from a docker container and mostly use it from a web interface, but even setting it to just give a url, and using CC from the terminal, it would just not hook in correctlyby joecot
4/3/2026 at 10:48:20 AM
>It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexibleIt's difficult to know what the appropriate process for a model would be without widespread deployment. I can see how they have to strike a fine balance between keeping up with what the feedback shows would be best and changing the way the user interacts with the system. Often it's easy to tell what would be better once something is deployed, but if people are productively using the currently deployed system you always have to weigh the advantage of a new method against the cost of people having to adapt. It is rare to make something universally better, and making things worse for users is bad.
by Lerc
4/3/2026 at 4:02:49 PM
In my experience the plan is plastic and responsive to iteration through dialogue. I don't think too much structure here is going to be desired by all users. But the "sounds good, but needs these edits" option can save a small amount of interaction. I often use the tab command that exists to modify the yes and no options. If you tab modify "Yes", I believe the plan will be executed and addendums from your additional prompting will be made afterward. By using tab modified "No", you can be clear about what parts of the plan are to be kept and what is to be immediately adjusted. Tab modified "No", definitely works as the "sounds good" option, but perhaps requires slightly more typing than you would like. "No, use most of this, but change..." I don't think there is a glaring lack here at all.by waffletower
4/3/2026 at 10:27:43 AM
There's also:4. Tell claude what to do instead, which will update the plan base on what you say.
5. Add comments to the plan directly - similar to 4 - but you can comment on specific parts.
Note: I use the VSCode extension, not sure if it differs in terminal mode.
by MachineBurning
4/3/2026 at 10:42:59 AM
Maybe they've updated it in the last couple weeks and my comment is out of date - I hope so! Because the 5th option definitely wasn't there when I recently used it, and the 4th you're mentioning looks familiar but I'm pretty sure in that case to it didn't (used to?) write it to a file.Will try it again.
by deaux
4/3/2026 at 3:25:51 PM
The VSCode plugin now (since last week I think) allows you to highlight elements of the plan and add comments. I think it first appeared in Antigravity but now is in Claude code. Unfortunately there is only so much you can do in CLI.It is also possible to now save plans in a custom location (I have started using ./docs/plans) although the plan mode still frustratingly names plans random file names and struggles with more than. 1 plan file in a session.
But the interface has become much better if you're on vscode
by sfifs
4/4/2026 at 12:32:44 AM
Plans are written to the .Claude folder in your home directory as you discuss them. Just ask for the file name.by conception
4/3/2026 at 10:42:23 AM
You can just tell it what to do. I have a cut and paste handy that lets the tool know to present all judgement calls to me a few at a time in logical groups to give feedback on. I go through that process and then it pulls the plan from thatby CPLX
4/3/2026 at 1:57:23 PM
I accidentally figured out you can go into plan mode then leave, Claude can keep working on the plan, then I use my own custom plan viewer (just a markdown viewer that's watching for the latest for update in the plan dir)by 4b11b4