[andnand]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Im trying to give these tools a fair shot before I judge them. Ive had success with detailed prompts and letting the agent jump straight in when working on small/new projects. Ill give more planning prompts a shot.

Do you change models between planning and implementation? I've seen that recommended but it's been hard to judge if that's made a difference.

[SparkyMcUnicorn]

Glad I could help!

Sometimes I do planning in stronger models like Gemini 2.5 Pro (started giving o3 a shot at this the past couple days) with all the relevant files in context, but often times I default to Sonnet 4 for everything.

A common pattern is to have the agent write down plans into markdown files (which you can also iterate on) when you get beyond a certain task size. This helps with more complex tasks. For large plans, individual implementation-phase-specific markdown files.

Maybe these projects can provide some assistance and/or inspiration:

- https://www.task-master.dev/

- https://github.com/Helmi/claude-simone