December 17, 2025
-
What Actually Is Claude Code’s Plan Mode?
I’ve mentioned this a few times now, but when I started using Claude it was because Peter got me hooked on it. From the very beginning I became a religious user of what is colloquially called YOLO mode, which basically gives the agent all the permissions so I can just watch it do its stuff. One consequence of YOLO mode though is that it didn’t work well together with the plan mode that Claude Code had. In the beginning it didn’t inherit all the tool permissions, so in plan mode it actually asked for approval all the time. I found...