There are skills available that might help you out. The “superpowers” set from Anthropic is really impressive.

The idea is, you want to build up the right context before starting development. I will either describe exactly what I want to build, or I ask the agent for guidance on different approaches. Sometimes I’ll even do this in a separate Claude (not Claude Code) conversation, which I feel works a bit faster. Once we have an approach, I will ask it to create an implementation plan in a markdown file, I clear context and then tell it to implement the plan.

Check out the “brainstorming” skill and the “git worktrees” skill. They will usually trigger the planning -> implementation workflow when the work is complex enough.