Use Cases

How builders ship the right thing.

Follow a proposal from request to review, bring evidence into a decision, or prepare the handoff to your coding agent. Pick a workflow or role to find the relevant steps.

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 Planning Agent Handoff

Planning·Ready intents

Decide what the team builds next

Use the Intents list to find pending reviews and missing outcome measurements, then compare the candidates and record why one should come next.

For: Founder6 min

Planning·Reviewed specs

Sequence work so agents have the dependencies they need

Check the prerequisites behind related intents, agree the build order, and hand the agent an authorized proposal based on contracts that are actually available.

For: Engineering Lead5 min

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.