Hmmm, might give it another go then. Your feedback is concrete and that helps.
dimitarvp
Vidar
[use-skills][TDD] Make a milestone plan to implement this and that in Elixir…. Use no agents for planning or implementation.
That is how I start all Elixir or Elixir/ Rust projects these days. (The agent thing I have in huge letters in the Claude and memory files so I don’t have to actually say that).
Edit: If you ask it to explain in detail the reasoning behind say architectural choices for the plan it might read it more detailed. Force proof of work and all that. 
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Vidar
Ah, I misread you.
No, I don’t actually enter planning mode as that will start the agent. But I do ask for the milestone plan as that is also connected to planning architecture, hook and skill use.
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dimitarvp
Well I was just about to ask whether we talk the same thing. The actual plan mode of Claude I find infuriating; I found multiple different ways to do it and for now settled on a memory file + a Markdown RFC file. The latter usually grows too big though, still working very hard on making sure stuff is compressed and substantive (I have the feeling whoever devises a mix of a human language + math + symbolic logic might actually come at a hair distance of inventing Skynet).
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frankdugan3
You might give this ClaudePlans a try. It watches and renders plans, memories, and extra folders you add using MDex with syntax highlighting, Mermaid charts, etc. Keyboard navigation, supports the PLUG_EDITOR conventions so you can open in editor of choice, inline annotations, etc. Makes plan mode much more pleasant.
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Vidar
Yes, I gave up on the planned mode too as it messed with the skill use and hooks. It works ok for me for other projects though.
The long term idea here for Elixir is to have skills and Archdo reflecting each other. So when a plan has been made and implemented, and Archdo analyses it and Claude interpret using the reviewing skill, then the Archdo rules are referring to specific skill sections. Thus Claude knows where too look for information and fixes.
By adding, distilling and iterating over time and projects the coordination should be ever improved. For overall quality check I run both against many different repos of varying maturity and sizes for validating, challenging or calibrating rules and skill guidance. For the moment I’m still just adding in functionality, so this will be the next iteration of both skills and Archdo I think.
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