`permissions.disableAutoMode`

setting never mined 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.

Set disableAutoMode to "disable" to stop Claude Code ever falling back to auto permission mode.

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.232.

First seen — never in a mined build

Last seen — never in a mined build

Builds0 / 150on this box, as of v2.1.309

Written about v2.1.71 first named in a changelog, 6 Mar 2026

In the changelogs

Releases whose published page names permissions.disableAutoMode.

v2.1.260 3 Sep 2026
New disableAutoMode permission/settings key
A new setting can turn off Claude Code's auto mode entirely.

found in this entry's text
v2.1.260 3 Sep 2026
New top-level disableAutoMode setting
Admins get a simpler top-level way to disable Auto mode without nesting the setting.

found in this entry's text
v2.1.232 13 Aug 2026
disableAutoMode setting can switch off the auto permission mode fallback
Set disableAutoMode to "disable" to stop Claude Code ever falling back to auto permission mode.

named in this entry, found in this entry's text
v2.1.71 6 Mar 2026
Auto Mode (--permission-mode auto)
found in this entry's text

First cited

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.

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.

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.

Names beside it

Every settings key in the inventory starting permissions, up to twelve of them.

permissions v2.1.138
Set allow, ask, and deny rules and the starting permission mode
permissions.additionalDirectories never mined
Give Claude file access to directories outside the current one
permissions.allow never mined
Approve listed tool uses without a prompt
permissions.ask never mined
Always prompt before listed tool uses
permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories never mined
Make the file tools refuse reads outside the working directories in every permission mode
permissions.defaultMode never mined
Set the permission mode new sessions start in
permissions.deny never mined
Block listed tool uses, including reads of files that hold secrets

Documentation pages 5

Set up Claude Code for your organizationmentions itClaude Code CLI
Choose a permission modementions itClaude Code CLI
Configure permissionsmentions itClaude Code CLI
Claude Code settingsmentions itClaude Code CLI
All settingsmentions itClaude 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.