permissions.defaultMode

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.

Releases whose published page names permissions.defaultMode.

1. v2.1.300 14 Oct 2026
   Claude Code now notes when a per-model auto-compact window is set

   Claude Code's list of settings in use now includes autoCompactWindow when it is set for any model under modelSettings

   found in this entry's text

2. v2.1.283 25 Sep 2026
   Sessions can start in auto mode when the server sends no setting

   The built-in fallback for starting sessions in auto mode switched from off to on, so it applies unless the server turns it off

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

3. v2.1.271 14 Sep 2026
   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. v2.1.257 1 Sep 2026
   'bypassPermissions'/'auto' default-permission-mode can now be set from local settings

   The auto and bypassPermissions default permission modes can now be set from local settings, not just project settings.

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

5. v2.1.257 1 Sep 2026
   New tengu_settings_mode_widening_carry_ignored telemetry for settings-level widening

   Project or local settings can no longer widen the effective permission mode via defaultMode.

   named in this entry

6. v2.1.248 27 Aug 2026
   Permission nudge and explainer moved, not changed

   The auto permission-mode nudge and explainer moved in code but behave the same.

   found in this entry's text

7. v2.1.238 20 Aug 2026
   Carrying and reporting your local permission mode in remote sessions is gated off

   Remote sessions could inherit your local permission mode and effort level, but no value is compiled in.

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

8. v2.1.236 19 Aug 2026
   One-time prompt offering to make auto mode your default permission mode

   Claude can offer once to make auto mode your default permission mode, switched off in this build.

   found in this entry's text

9. v2.1.225 7 Aug 2026
   Auto-default nudge actually flips the mode, and reports the outcome

   Saying yes to the auto-mode prompt now actually saves auto as your default permission mode.

   named in this entry

10. v2.1.225 7 Aug 2026
    VS Code-owned sessions get their own settings defaultMode handling

    In VS Code sessions, unsafe default permission modes from settings are refused and fall back to normal.

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

11. v1.0.54 16 Jul 2025
    Settings Configuration Improvements

    found in this entry's text

No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.

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.