PermissionDenied
A Claude Code hook event, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
What it is
When auto mode denies a tool call, including denials without a classifier verdict. Use JSON hookSpecificOutput.retry: true to tell the model it may retry the denied tool call. Claude Code ignores retry when the classifier produced no verdict
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Hooks reference, captured 2026-08-28.
Presence across releases
The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Changelog entries naming it
No changelog entry here has ever named it. That is a statement about what has been written, not about the name: nothing here says which builds carried it either.
Documentation pages
- Hooks reference reference table Claude Code CLI
- Intercept and control agent behavior with hooks reference table Claude Code CLI
- java mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- php mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- For Amazon Bedrock support mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- Automatically handles tool execution loop mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- typescript mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- Agent SDK reference - TypeScript mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Configure auto mode mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Automate actions with hooks mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Plugins reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Week 14 · March 30 – April 3, 2026 mentions it Claude Code CLI
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the hook event does. All hook events.