How builders ship the right thing.
Real inputs, real specs, real hand-offs. Each example is a complete flow — pick a workflow or a role and see what comes out the other side.
Draft your first intent in your repo, no account required
Install the keyless MCP server, describe what you're building, and get a preflighted intent.md in your project root. Assumptions labeled, blockers named, nothing leaves your machine. Signing up is not a step.
Hand off a spec to Claude Code without losing context
Export an IntentSpec as a structured agent prompt. Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex gets the goal, evidence, edge cases, and verification criteria, not just a one-line task description.
Generate a PR description from the linked IntentSpec
The agent that built the work already holds the spec it built against. Have it write the PR description from that spec: objective, outcomes, verification criteria, and edge cases, so reviewers see intent and tests in the same place.
Run a deterministic preflight before your agent starts building
Six calibrated checks, no model call, no account. The preflight reads your intent.md, names the exact gates that block it, and the same spec always gets the same verdict. Repair happens one question at a time, then the agent starts.
Let your agent pull intent live with the Pathmode MCP server
Stop pasting specs into the agent. With a connected workspace, Claude Code preflights the repo's intent.md, reads the full execution context, stops for open PM requests and for a person to authorize the exact revision, then hands the pull request back for a diff-graded verdict.
Verify the pull request against the spec it was built from
Name the PR and Pathmode reads the diff from GitHub itself, grading every outcome, constraint, and edge case against what the code actually shows, with citations. A summary of your own work is weaker evidence, and the verdict says so.
Let a coding agent correct the spec it's building from
An agent building your spec discovers the spec was wrong. Instead of burying that in a PR comment, it records a finding that rides into the next agent's prompt and flips the falsified check to failing, then proposes the exact correction for a person to accept. The loop converges, and a human closes it.
Paste a doc and get your first intent, before you sign up
Drop in a PRD, a positioning page, or rough notes. Pathmode extracts your product context, scores how grounded it is, and drafts your first intent as a proposal you accept or sharpen. No account needed to start.
Catch the experience gaps in a spec before build
The happy path is in the spec. The empty state, the error, the slow connection, the screen-reader user — usually aren't. Review the spec from the experience side and add the states a coding agent will otherwise invent badly.
Capture a customer call as structured evidence
You just got off a call full of signal. Before it evaporates, drop the transcript in. Pathmode pulls out the quotes and tags each by type and severity, and they wait Unreviewed in the Inbox until you judge them. No synthesis doc required.
Decide what the team builds next — without a roadmap meeting
The biweekly roadmap meeting re-derives the state of everything from memory. The Build Queue shows it on one board — what's blocked, what's on the critical path, what's verified — so the next-build call is made on what's actually true.
Turn a design rationale into outcomes engineers can verify
The reasoning behind the design is the part that gets lost in handoff — and it's the part that keeps an agent from 'improving' your decisions into mush. Convert the why behind the pixels into outcomes with verification criteria.
Pressure-test a spec against your strategy before the team commits
The spec is well-built and the evidence is real — but is it the thing this company should build right now? Review it against the workspace constitution, where your strategy and non-negotiables already live, before a sprint goes into it.
Review a spec for implementation risk before it enters the build queue
The product side wrote the goal and the evidence. You add what they can't see — the technical edge cases, the constraints, the out-of-scope lines that keep an agent from wandering. Catch the expensive surprises while they're still cheap to fix.
Turn scattered customer signal into one prioritized spec
The signal is real, but it's in twelve places: a sales call, two Slack threads, a churn email, your own notes. Capture it all in Pathmode, judge it one signal at a time, and end with a spec whose claims say what backs them.
Sequence the build queue so agents work in the right order
A pile of ready specs isn't a plan. The Build Queue flags which specs block others and which sit on the critical path — so you build the foundations first and an agent picking up the next item never waits on something that isn't built yet.
Turn a usability test into a spec the team can build
Five sessions, a pile of clips, and a sinking feeling that it'll all live in a deck nobody opens. Capture the observations in Pathmode and walk out with a spec whose outcomes name the exact moments users struggled, and who judged that they count.
Anchor every outcome to user evidence
Stop writing specs from imagination. Every claim in a Pathmode spec shows what backs it and who judged it, so a year from now you can still answer 'why did we build it that way?'
Audit a draft spec for missing edge cases
Paste your half-finished PRD or spec. Pathmode runs a Socratic review, flags the assumptions you didn't realize you were making, and surfaces the edge cases your team will hit in week two.
Go from a vague founder-ask to a testable goal
'Make onboarding feel less janky' isn't a spec. Pathmode runs a Socratic dialogue that turns it into a measurable goal, three outcomes, and a verification plan — in a single sitting.
Find the friction pattern across 5 user interviews
Five interviews, five different stories, one pattern underneath. Capture the transcripts as signals, judge them one at a time, and the pattern shows up as the claim several independent sources back.
Convert a Slack thread into an evidence item
Customer feedback dies in Slack. Paste a thread, get a structured signal with the quote, the context, and the source, sitting Unreviewed in the Evidence Inbox until you judge it.
Spot the conflict between two stakeholder requests
Sales wants self-serve, security wants SSO-only. Drop both requests into Pathmode and get the conflict surfaced as an explicit tension — not buried in a 30-page spec.
Turn 30 support tickets into a prioritized spec
Import a CSV export of recent tickets. Every row lands in the Evidence Inbox as an unreviewed signal, and you decide which ones become reviewed backing for an exact claim in your spec.