Before and after

A concrete comparison of agent behavior without and with DWP.

Drift → directed execution

Before DWP

• Context window full
• Decisions forgotten
• Build ✗

After DWP

• Ordered tasks
• PROGRESS.md logged
• Gates pass

Before DWP

Given “add authentication to the app”, an agent:

• Starts editing files immediately.
• Loses track of what it changed.
• Produces inconsistent, hard-to-review output.
• Cannot resume if interrupted.

After DWP

Given the same goal, a DWP-driven agent:

• Creates a plan: schema, endpoints, middleware, tests, docs.
• Executes task by task, updating progress.
• Produces reviewable, incremental changes.
• Resumes cleanly after interruption.

Outcome

The same model produces more reliable, reviewable work when guided by a plan.