Claude Code's new /ultraplan command moves planning from the CLI to a web UI. Finally, you can review and annotate AI plans before letting it touch your local code.
Ever stared at a massive wall of text in your terminal generated by an AI, only to be forced to hit 'Y' or 'N' for the whole damn thing? Yeah, it sucks. Blindly approving a massive refactor is a one-way ticket to a broken codebase. Recognizing this pain, the wizards at Anthropic just threw us a lifeline.
Anthropic just dropped a highly pragmatic command for Claude Code: /ultraplan.
The old pain point? The standard /plan command in the CLI is a linear trap. It spits out a giant blob of text. You read it (with your eyes bleeding), and you either approve the whole enchilada or reject it. Want to tweak just one specific paragraph? Too bad, go rewrite your entire prompt or fix it manually.
/ultraplan fixes this mess. Type the command, and Claude offloads the heavy lifting to its cloud infra. Your local terminal is freed up immediately so you can keep doing your thing.
Once the plan is baked, you pop open your browser to claude.ai. Boom! Now it's a living document. You can highlight text, leave inline comments, drop emojis, and force Claude to iterate on specific sections until it stops hallucinating.
When you're finally happy with the blueprint, you pull the trigger: either execute it right there on the cloud for a quick PR, or teleport the approved plan back to your CLI where it has full access to your messy local environment.
Over on Product Hunt, this launch is buzzing with over 200 upvotes. The community is split into a few very agreeable camps:
This feature isn't just a shiny new toy; it fixes a very real workflow bottleneck. Letting an AI go rogue on your repo just because you were too lazy to read the CLI output is a surefire way to ruin your weekend.
The takeaway here? Let AI be your lightning-fast typist, but keep the architectural brainpower to yourself. Drawing a hard line between Planning (reading/reasoning in a nice Web UI) and Execution (building/touching files in your Local CLI) is just good hygiene. Review the damn plan properly before you let the bot touch your source code.
Quick heads-up: You need Claude Code v2.1.91+, Claude Code on the Web enabled, and a GitHub repo to use this. If you're on Bedrock, Vertex, or Foundry, you're out of luck for now.
