[madcocomo]

For me the biggest difficulty is I find it hard to read unverifiable documentation. It's like dyslexia - if I can't connect the text content with runnable code, I feel lost in 5 minutes.

So with this approach of spending 3 hours on planning without verification in code, that's too hard for me.

I agree the context compaction sounds good. But I'm not sure if an md file is good enough to carry the info from research to plan and implementation. Personally I often find the context is too complex or the problem is too big. I just open a new session to resolve a smaller, more specific problem in source code, then test and review the source code.