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Agent Plan Preflight

Force a quick scan of key risk items before you approve an AI coding agent's plan

Problem
With Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and similar tools, users often skip straight to code or skim before approving agent-generated plans. A recent question asked when was the last time you read the whole plan before approving a substantial change, showing awareness of the risk but a lack of lightweight checking tools.
Solution
A lightweight tool where you paste the agent's plan and it highlights risk points against a checklist: files touched, database changes, permissions and secrets, rollback plan, test plan, unspecified assumptions. It outputs a tickable pre-read checklist so users can quickly go through it before approval.
Users
Developers using AI coding agents daily and tech leads who gate changes
MVP
Paste plan text or hook into Claude Code/Cursor output; built-in 5–8 key checks; auto-flag missing or vague parts; generate a tickable pre-approval checklist; run locally without uploading code
Revenue
Free basic checks plus a subscription for custom rules and team templates
Why now
AI coding agents are widespread, plan approval is a new safety gate, but most people go by gut feel; an indie developer can build a lightweight tool fast

Source discussions · 1

  1. Hacker NewsAsk HN: Do you read your coding agent's plans before approving?3↑ 1
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