Plan

Plan mode produces a reviewable plan before any mutation happens. Use it when you want an explicit gate between “what Babel intends to do” and “what it actually does”.

node .\babel-cli\dist\index.js plan "Split the auth module safely"

Behavior and boundaries

Plan mode does not load the full governed pipeline; it runs the plan path and stops at a plan artifact, with interactive apply on approval.
The plan is produced for your review — reading a plan on this website or in the CLI does not execute anything. Approval happens in your session, not anywhere else.
Like chat, plan shares the unified execution kernel and the same execution-profile isolation rules.

When to choose Plan instead of Chat

The change spans several files or subsystems.
You want to check scope before any write happens.
You are working in a repository where mutation needs review first.

For riskier work that also wants adversarial review and verification structure, see Deep. Plan is not more reliable than Chat for ordinary tasks — it is a different gate.