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id: waiting-on-owner/plan-mode-is-live-and-has-never-been-exercised
title: "Plan mode is live and has never been exercised"
theme: waiting-on-owner
status: open
created: 2026-08-17
date_source: stated
order: 2
---

**Plan mode is live and has never been exercised.** Landed `1b811dfa` on 2026-08-17; all three
processes were restarted the same evening, so the code IS running. Not one part of it has been used:
not the toggle, not the plan card, not the round trip from the sidecar's pending promise to a browser
and back, not the stored column, not `settleAllPlans`.

**`docs/chat-plan-mode-test-plan.md` is the checklist** — eleven ordered tests, what each should show,
and what its failure looks like. Test 4 (approve) is the one most likely to be wrong: it is the case
that changed the design, because approving `ExitPlanMode` drops the harness into `default` rather than
back into `bypassPermissions`.

Safe to leave untested. Plan mode is opt-in and off by default, so a conversation that never touches
the toggle behaves exactly as it did before. The one failure worth knowing in advance is a turn that
never ends after a plan is answered — that would be a leaked `canUseTool` promise, and
`pm2 restart officer-claude-code` clears it.

Design and the probe results behind it: `docs/chat-plan-mode.md`.