Reviewing the plan
The agent has decided what it intends to do, and the user has one chance to catch a wrong plan before it becomes wrong work.
A plan shown too early is speculation; shown too late it is a formality. Preview earns its place only when the user can still change the plan cheaply and the cost of being wrong is real.
4 patterns for this moment
Each one is a different way to resolve the tradeoff above.
The intended sequence of steps, shown before execution and editable by the user.
Show the full sequence the agent intends to execute, with side effects marked, before anything runs.
A cheap, fast, explicitly provisional pass for exploring before committing to a full-quality run.
The price of an action — credits, tokens, minutes, dollars — shown before the user commits to it.
Audit checklist for this moment
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