Ask for a plan
Enable Plan first in Chat or choose Plan first for selected text. The agent reads the relevant files without changing them, then opens Plan from agent. Use Run it to approve the plan. Dismiss closes it. Reject with feedback sends your response and asks for a revised plan.Review a proposed plan and approve it with Run it.
Follow long work
The agent can use file, shell, web research, code, and subagent tools. Tool calls and progress appear in the live agent dock. Subagent work appears under the relevant task description. You can keep editing while the work runs. Open the full transcript when the short activity log does not contain enough detail.Use scratch space
The agent can place temporary work under.docwriter/agent/scratch/. Scratch files do not appear until a tool creates them. Starting a new session clears the scratch folder.