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

Spec Authoring·Design rationale

Turn a design rationale into outcomes engineers can verify

Carry the user result, design decisions, and supporting research into a proposal the engineer can verify without losing the reason behind the design.

For: Designer7 min

Spec Authoring·Existing evidence + draft spec

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?'

For: Product Manager5 min

Spec Authoring·One-liner ask

Go from a vague founder-ask to a testable goal

Turn a rough request into a clear problem, observable outcomes, and a proposal your team can review before implementation.

For: Founder8 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.