2 min lesson
Stop when you have proof
Connect "Start with this check: Every step has an owner: Agent, human or external system" to the decision you would make.
Step 1 of 2
The job: the plan can be reviewed, edited, saved and used as the implementation contract. Start with this check: Every step has an owner: Agent, human or external system. Keep it small enough to check the result yourself instead of taking the summary on trust.
Prune the plan, add a gate, then keep it as the contract
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- Plan Mode writes this out as prose, not a checklist with an approve button. It's Markdown, sitting right there — you can edit it directly, and nothing builds until you say go.
- Step 3 stands up a brand-new Redis client, but billing already owns one — that doesn't serve this task, so delete it right in the plan text. Add an out-of-scope line and a verify gate while you're editing.
- Now every step has an owner — Agent, the reviewer, or CI — and the verify gate lives in the plan itself. That's the version the build and the review both point to.
Practice next: Now try it: open a plan the agent wrote, cut what doesn't serve the task, add a verify gate, and tag each step with its owner.
Simulated Cursor 3.12 (macOS, light) — beta educational reconstruction, not the real product.