Planner Strategy
Planning
Also known as:planning,strategy,multi-step reasoning,task planning
Advanced planning capabilities to break down complex tasks into steps and execute multi-file changes systematically.
Agent Support
| Agent | Support Level | Notes | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ✅ Full Support | Plan mode is a special operating mode in Claude Code that allows you to research, analyze, and create implementation plans without making any actual changes to your system or codebase. | |
| Cline | ✅ Full Support | Plan mode is read-only exploration and strategy; Act mode executes the plan with full context. | |
| Cursor | ✅ Full Support | Agent mode with 'Agent To-dos' breaks down complex tasks into steps, autonomously executing multi-file changes. | |
| Devin | ✅ Full Support | Devin generates a detailed plan before starting implementation, showing it to the user in the session dashboard. The user can review, edit, or approve the plan before Devin begins executing. This planning step is a core part of the Devin workflow. | |
| Devin Desktop | ✅ Full Support | Cascade has built-in planning and creates a Todo list to track progress on complex tasks; the Devin Local agent offers a plan mode. | |
| Gemini CLI | ✅ Full Support | Plan Mode is a read-only environment to research, design, and agree on a plan before code is modified. It is enabled by default. | |
| GitHub Copilot | ✅ Full Support | Agent Mode (GA in VS Code since February 2025) and the Copilot coding agent provide multi-step planning: generating a plan, writing code, running tests, and iterating autonomously. | |
| Google Antigravity | ✅ Full Support | The agent uses an Implementation Plan artifact to architect changes before executing them; you can trigger planning with /plan and comment on the plan. | |
| Google Jules | ✅ Full Support | Jules generates a step-by-step implementation plan before writing code, which is shown to the user for approval. Only after the plan is approved does Jules proceed with implementation. This is a core part of the Jules workflow. | |
| Kiro | ✅ Full Support | Specs formalize planning into requirements, design, and implementation tasks with progress tracking before and during implementation. | |
| OpenAI Codex | ✅ Full Support | The /plan command switches the chat into plan mode so Codex proposes an execution plan before implementation starts. | |
| OpenCode | ✅ Full Support | Plan mode suggests how the agent will implement a feature without making changes, before switching to Build. | |
| Replit Agent | ✅ Full Support | Replit Agent presents a structured plan of steps before beginning implementation. Users can review the planned actions (files to create, packages to install, etc.) and the agent proceeds step by step, showing progress in the chat panel. | |
| Aider | ⚠️ Partial | Aider's Architect mode separates planning from execution: a powerful model plans the changes, then a faster/cheaper model executes them. This provides a planning layer, but Aider does not show an explicit step-by-step plan to the user for approval before execution. | |
| Zed AI | ⚠️ Partial | Zed's agentic mode can execute multi-step tasks, but it does not present an explicit plan for user approval before starting. It executes steps sequentially and requests approval for destructive actions. |
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