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Plan mode is the extent of it for me. It’s essentially prompting to produce a prompt, which is then used to actually execute the inference to produce code changes. It’s really upped the quality of the output IME.

But I don’t have any habits around using subagents or lots of CLAUDE.md files etc. I do have some custom commands.

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Cursor’s implementation of plan mode works better for me simply because it’s an editable markdown file. Claude code seems to really want to be the driver and you be the copilot. I really dislike that relationship and vastly prefer a workflow that lets me edit the LLM output rather than have it generate some plan and then piss away time and tokens fighting the model so it updates the plan how I want it. With cursor I just edit it myself and then edit its output super easy.

I’ve even resorted to using actual markdown files on disk for long sets of work, as a kind of long term memory meta-plan mode. I’ll even have claude generate them and keep them updated. But I get what you mean.

Thanks for sharing, I didn't even know about this useful feature.

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