AutoDream — Structured Planning Artifacts

AutoDream is a discovery tool that generates structured planning artifacts — architecture docs, task breakdowns, risk assessments — from a natural language description of what you want to build. It is the pre-session stage before you open a Claude Code session or spawn an agent team.

Quick Reference

→AutoDream is a discovery tool, not an execution tool — it generates plans, not code
→Outputs: component diagrams, dependency graphs, task lists with effort estimates, risk areas, suggested CLAUDE.md rules
→Use AutoDream before greenfield projects or large agent team runs
→AutoDream artifacts become the context: blocks in AGENT.md definitions
→Shipped in Q1 2026 alongside Remote Control, Dispatch, and Channels
→AutoDream also refers to the background memory consolidation system (distinct from planning)
→Differs from Plan Mode: Plan Mode scopes a known task; AutoDream discovers what to build
→Differs from /ultraplan: /ultraplan refines a plan collaboratively; AutoDream generates it from scratch

What AutoDream Does

Two Distinct Features Under One Name

AutoDream refers to two related but distinct features that shipped in Q1 2026: (1) the Structured Planning Artifact generator, which produces architecture docs and task breakdowns from natural language; and (2) the background Memory Consolidation system, which runs like REM sleep to prune and refresh Claude's memory files. This article covers both.

The planning artifact generator answers the question: 'I know what I want to build — how should I decompose it and who should build what?' You give AutoDream a natural language description of intent, and it produces the documents you would normally write by hand before opening a development session.

Tool	Stage	Input	Output
AutoDream	Pre-session discovery	Natural language intent description	Architecture docs, task breakdown, risk assessment, CLAUDE.md suggestions
Plan Mode	In-session scoping	Task with existing codebase context	Implementation plan for a known task
/ultraplan	Pre-execution refinement	Drafted plan needing human review	Annotated, approved plan ready for execution

What AutoDream Produces

An AutoDream run produces a structured artifact document. The standard output includes:

How to Trigger AutoDream

AutoDream is triggered by including the word 'AutoDream' in your request, along with a description of what you want to build. The more specific the intent description, the more actionable the output.

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