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autoMode

setting never mined documented JSON

A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.

Add your own allow and deny rules to the auto mode classifier

Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-09-28.

First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Builds0 / 126on this box, as of v2.1.283
Written about v2.1.81 first named in a changelog, 20 Mar 2026

In the changelogs

14

Releases whose published page names autoMode.

  1. v2.1.283
    One invalid sandbox deny entry now withholds the matching allow rules

    If one entry in deniedDomains, denyWrite or denyRead is invalid, Claude Code now withholds the matching allow list instead of applying it

    found in this entry's text

  2. v2.1.282
    Broken managed settings now fail safe, including permission and sandbox blocks

    An invalid value in managed settings now becomes its most restrictive value, and a block with an unreadable deny rule loses its allow grants

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  3. v2.1.271
    Bridge child auto-mode permission defaulting, gated off

    Bridge-spawned child sessions may be defaulted to auto permission mode, gated off

    found in this entry's text

  4. v2.1.269
    New auto-mode-environment check before spawning a bridge (remote-control) session

    Bridge sessions re-check local auto-mode environment settings before spawning when the work item requests one

    found in this entry's text

  5. v2.1.248
    Auto-mode and import subcommands moved

    Some auth and auto subcommands moved to a different command object with unchanged behaviour.

    found in this entry's text

  6. v2.1.212
    Auto-mode Setup (/auto-mode-setup)

    found in this entry's text

  7. v2.1.210

    found in this entry's text

  8. v2.1.207
    /auto-mode-setup: Expanded Rule Audit

    found in this entry's text

  9. v2.1.207
  10. v2.1.207
  11. v2.1.136
    Auto Mode Hard-Deny Rules

    found in this entry's text

  12. v2.1.108
    Assistant Feature Gate [In Development]

    found in this entry's text

  13. v2.1.108
    Settings Schema Refactored to Feature Gates

    found in this entry's text

  14. v2.1.81
    Auto Mode Rule Critique CLI

    found in this entry's text

First cited

3

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted autoMode was v2.1.136, 8 May 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.

ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.1368 May 2026autoMode.{allow, soft_deny, hard_deny, environment}
v2.1.20710 Jul 2026Project `.claude/settings.local.json` - autoMode keys
v2.1.24827 Aug 2026Reset auto mode configuration to the shipped defaults by removing the autoMode section from your user settings file

Presence across releases

0

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.

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 settings key does. All settings keys.

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