Share the plan Claude Code wrote as a link

Plan mode is the best thing Claude Code does. You switch it on, describe the change, and it reads the codebase and writes out what it intends to do before it touches a file. Most days that plan is the most useful document produced all day. It is also, most days, the one nobody else gets to read.

This post is about the second half: getting the plan out of the terminal and in front of the person who needs it. Three ways, with the honest trade-offs of each. I use all three, for different readers, and the third one is mine, so read that section with the appropriate suspicion.

📍 Where the plan actually goes

You enter plan mode by pressing Shift+Tab until the status bar says plan mode is on, by starting a single prompt with /plan, or by launching with claude --permission-mode plan. The Claude Code docs cover the approval flow. While the plan is on screen, Ctrl+G opens it in your editor, so you can strike out the step where it wants to rewrite your auth layer "while we are in there".

That is where the built-in support ends. There is no share button. I looked, twice, the second time with more coffee. The plan lives in a file on your machine and in the conversation, and the conversation is the part that gets compacted when the context fills up. If your reviewer, your client, or the teammate picking this up tomorrow is not sitting at your terminal, moving the plan is your job.

Historically that has meant pasting it into a chat message, where it enjoys a useful life of about four hours. Here are the three ways that last longer.

1️⃣ Commit it and open a draft pull request

Ask Claude to write the plan to a file in the repository, then treat it as the first commit of the work: