🎯 Plan Mode

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• TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models
  article2026-10-17
• Putting models to the secure coding test: Plan vs default mode
  writeup2026-08-19

  Agent mode that proposes a plan and options and asks for approval before writing code; compared with default mode for effect on the security of generated code. The study found no meaningful correlation with more secure code.

• Nine AI coding agent incidents that ended with deleted data
  article2026-08-04It is written here as Plan Mode (Cursor).

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• rikugan: LLM reverse-engineering agent for IDA Pro and Binary Ninja
  repo

  Used for multi-step workflows such as the /deobfuscation skill, which removes control flow flattening, opaque predicates, MBA expressions and junk code.