I use plan mode, but then I let it go using its own todo tool and trust its auto-compaction to deal with context size. It seems to almost always work out okay.
I use plan mode, but then I let it go using its own todo tool and trust its auto-compaction to deal with context size. It seems to almost always work out okay.
The rule of thumb is that when you've compacted, you've already lost. But YMMV.
The internal todo list works well if the task is something that can be completed within one context pass, otherwise it should be an external task list - whatever works for your flow, markdown, github issues, memory MCP etc.