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.
Hand the authorized proposal to your coding agent
Carry the product manager's corrections and revision authorization into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, then check the implementation against the agreed intent.
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.
Turn an existing brief into a proposal you can review
Bring the ticket, PRD excerpt, or rough notes you already have. Have your coding agent propose the change, then compare its interpretation with your original request in Pathmode.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.