permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting
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.
Claude Code now passes along a permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting setting when it is set to true, next to the read and write block settings
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.319.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting.
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v2.1.319
New permission setting
denyInsteadOfPromptingis carried through settingsClaude Code now passes along a
permissions.denyInsteadOfPromptingsetting when it is set to true, next to the read and write block settingsnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.319
permissions.denyInsteadOfPromptingcan only make Claude Code stricterpermissions.denyInsteadOfPromptingis now restrictive-only: project and local settings are ignored, and true in any allowed source winsnamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.319
permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting can end a turn after repeated refusals
With permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting, a run of refused actions now ends the turn with a denial instead of asking you
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.319
Repeated refusals under denyInsteadOfPrompting now end the turn
With
permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting, Claude Code ends the turn after too many tool calls in a row are refusednamed in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.319
No-prompt permission mode and denyInsteadOfPrompting are treated differently
The mode that avoids permission prompts now marks itself as avoiding them by nature, and
denyInsteadOfPromptingnow counts as a restrictive settingnamed in this entry
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting was v2.1.319, 6 Nov 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.