CoursesClaude Code in Practice

Plan Mode and the Working Loop

Plan before the first edit, give every change a check it can run, stop and rewind when a session goes wrong, keep the rules compaction can lose, and run two pieces of work without a collision.

Lessons
6
Exercises
34
Minutes
37

Start Plan Mode

  1. 1

    Plan Mode

    After this lesson you can put Claude Code into plan mode for a change that touches many files, read the plan it presents, catch the wrong step, and approve only when the plan is right.

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    5 exercises
    5 min
  2. 2

    The Working Loop

    After this lesson you can run one change through explore, plan, implement and verify, and write the prompt so Claude knows what done looks like before it starts.

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    5 exercises
    5 min
  3. 3

    Course Corrections

    After this lesson you can stop a session that is going wrong, pick between interrupting, rewinding, compacting and starting over, and keep the instructions that compaction can lose.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  4. 4

    Parallel Work

    After this lesson you can run two pieces of work at once without them colliding, and hand a wide search to a subagent so only its findings come back into your window.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  5. 5

    Checkpoint: Plan and LoopCheckpoint

    Plan mode, verification targets, course corrections and parallel work in fresh situations.

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    6 exercises
    6 min
  6. 6

    Boss: The Refactor That Touches Twelve FilesBoss

    One refactor of src/payments/ carried from plan to implementation, through a wrong turn and a compaction, to verification and handoff.

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    8 exercises
    9 min