[Scenario 4: Developer Productivity with Claude] You are building developer productivity tooling on the Claude Agent SDK: helping engineers explore unfamiliar codebases, understand legacy systems, generate boilerplate, and automate repetitive tasks — using the built-in tools (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob) plus MCP servers.

Two tasks arrive: fixing an off-by-one bug in one function with a clear stack trace, and migrating the codebase's HTTP library — touching 45+ files with several viable approaches. How should plan mode and direct execution be assigned?

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[Scenario 4: Developer Productivity with Claude] You are building developer productivity tooling on the Claude Agent SDK: helping engineers explore unfamiliar codebases, understand legacy systems, generate boilerplate, and automate repetitive tasks — using the built-in tools (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob) plus MCP servers.

Two tasks arrive: fixing an off-by-one bug in one function with a clear stack trace, and migrating the codebase's HTTP library — touching 45+ files with several viable approaches. How should plan mode and direct execution be assigned?

Accepted Answer

Direct execution for the well-scoped single-file bug fix; plan mode for the migration, whose scale and multiple valid approaches demand exploration and design before changes are committed

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Plan mode for both — planning never hurts

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Direct execution for both — plan mode is only for greenfield projects

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Plan mode for the bug fix and direct execution for the migration

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