Use Cases

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.

By role

All roles Product Manager Founder Designer Engineering Lead

By workflow

All workflows First Intent Evidence Intake Evidence to Spec Spec Authoring Spec Review Build Queue Agent Handoff

First Intent·A repo with no spec yet

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, the Pathmode server runs locally. No account required.

For: Engineering Lead5 min

First Intent·An existing brief or ticket

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.

For: Founder5 min read

Before your agent builds, preflight the spec.

Pathmode applies six deterministic checks to a ticket, doc, or intent.md and names the missing outcomes, constraints, edge cases, and verification. It runs in your browser.

Run the preflight Create your account

No account or API key required. The preflight checks your spec in your browser. The local MCP server makes no network requests in keyless mode; your coding agent may send context to its own model provider. An account adds private evidence, attributed decisions, and teammate review.

Install locally

/plugin marketplace add pathmodeio/claude-plugin
/plugin install pathmode@pathmode

Installs the Pathmode plugin and MCP server for Claude Code.