dontAsk
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.
The schema now documents all six permission modes, including auto and dontAsk.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.248.
In the changelogs
8Releases whose published page names dontAsk.
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v2.1.300
Workflow agents can have their prompt rewritten, and hand-back warns in dontAsk mode
Workflow agents can start with a rewritten prompt that gets its own check, and handing a workflow back to a dontAsk session adds a warning
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.275
In-process ('script') tool calls can now trigger fork-agent availability and get plan/dontAsk fork restrictions
Forking a subagent from an in-process tool call is now blocked in plan and dontAsk permission modes
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v2.1.275
Permission-mode 'auto' resolves to a concrete mode at request time
'Auto' permission mode now resolves to a concrete mode when a tool request is made
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v2.1.259
Additional CLI permission modes surfaced when replaying session state
Replayed sessions now round-trip the default, plan, dontAsk and bubble permission modes, not just the three previously handled.
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v2.1.251
Auto mode can skip the subagent-spawn prompt for URL-only Task prompts
In auto mode, subagents whose prompt is only allowed URLs skip the spawn permission ask.
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v2.1.248
Permission modes
autoanddontAskare now documented in the schemaThe schema now documents all six permission modes, including auto and dontAsk.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.248
Permission prompts say whose comment is being acted on
Comment permission prompts can name whose comment it is, behind an artifact-comments env var.
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v2.1.172
URL Provenance Check for web_fetch
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First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted dontAsk was v2.1.259, 2 Sep 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.
Presence across releases
0The 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.