The question
What if the agent forgets what remains — or plans everything?The answer
Make planning conditional; persist only compact task state.Simple task
read → edit → verifyComplex task
plan → tasks → executeThen
observe → re-planSource
Claude Code docs — code.claude.com/docs — Matches two real, documented features: Plan Mode (read-only exploration before any edit) and the TodoWrite tool (persistent, visible task state).Continue the walkthrough
Subagent isolation
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