A coding agent can implement a clear instruction quickly. The harder part is knowing which product decisions still apply when the next request arrives.
Pathmode gives product, design, and engineering a shared proposal to review. You keep working in the repository and your coding tools. Your teammates review through a link, and the decisions they approve reach the file your agent builds from.
Get the product answer before building
- Have the agent propose the change. Start with the ticket and the repository. Attach the original request so the team can compare it with the proposed behavior.
- Bring engineering context into the review. Surface constraints, contradictions, and choices the request leaves open. Your teammates can request a correction without operating the coding agent.
- Apply the correction and return the revision. Your agent updates
intent.md. The responsible reviewer inspects the change and chooses Authorize implementation to approve that revision.
You check feasibility and implementation quality. The team chooses who is responsible for approving the product decision; the agent cannot approve its own proposal.
The same decision, in a later request
In the homepage’s illustrative cancellation example, Maria decides that customers keep access through the period they paid for. Sam has his agent revise the proposal before Maria approves it.
Later, Sam asks: “Clean up canceled accounts.” Reading the saved decision gives the agent a reason to preserve accounts with paid access until the billing period ends. The team does not have to reconstruct why that rule exists from an old conversation.
The earlier approval covers the cancellation revision. A new cleanup proposal still needs review and approval. If the new work conflicts with the earlier decision, bring that conflict back to the team.
Follow Maria and Sam’s complete review.
Know which version you are building from
The approved intent.md lives beside the code. Corrections refer to the version the reviewer saw, so an old request cannot silently overwrite a newer decision. If the proposal changes materially, it needs fresh approval.
Preflight highlights missing or vague parts before implementation. It does not decide whether the product choice is right or grant approval to build.
Check the implementation, then learn from it
With GitHub connected and the pull request linked to the intent, Pathmode reviews the diff before merge and checks the merged changes afterwards. These checks are advisory. Code review, tests, and the decision to merge remain your team’s responsibility.
Record contradictions discovered during implementation so the next review can use them. Whether the change helped customers needs observation after release; a passing diff check cannot establish that.
