Plan of Plans
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A multi-phase planning architecture for long-running agent tasks, in which work is decomposed into multiple coordinated sub-plans executed by separate agents rather than consolidated into a single monolithic plan handled by one agent.
Design and Purpose
The Plan of Plans concept is introduced as a structural solution to the challenges of "messy forever work" — tasks that are complex, long-running, and not easily reducible to a single sequential plan. Rather than loading all task logic into one plan and assigning it to a single agent, the approach breaks work into multiple phases, each with its own plan. As described in the talk:
"instead of just putting all this in one plan and having a single agent do it, we have multiple phases" — To Give an Agent a Workspace, 28:13
Role Within the Ask-Plan-Audit-Build-Verify Workflow
The Plan of Plans is a component of the broader Ask-Plan-Audit-Build-Verify Workflow, serving as the planning layer that structures how multi-phase work is organized before execution. The explicit framing — "we build what I call a plan of plans" — positions it as a deliberate architectural pattern within that workflow, coordinating the handoff between planning, auditing, building, and verification stages across phases. To Give an Agent a Workspace, 28:13
Points of Disagreement
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