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Claude Code v2.1.236

One-time prompt offering to make auto mode your default permission mode

Not switched on
Useful3 Signal4
Permissions

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

The one-time auto-mode default prompt and its startup check are wired up but off unless remote config turns them on.

Feature flag
tengu_maple_pier Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.236: on

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.236. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What

Claude Code can now ask, once, whether you want auto mode to become your default permission mode, and the interactive session checks at startup whether to queue that question behind whatever is already on screen. The prompt takes an accepted, declined or cancelled answer. Both the prompt and the startup check are present in this build but switched off, so nothing appears unless remote config turns them on.

Details
  • Gated on the remote flag tengu_maple_pier, which falls back to off, so the prompt is invisible by default in this build.
  • Shows at most once ever, tracked by hasSeenAutoDefaultNudge in config, and only after onboarding is complete.
  • The startup check returns nothing unless hasSeenAutoDefaultNudge is unset and your user settings set a permissions.defaultMode to something other than auto, with no project, local, command-line or policy setting overriding it.
  • Editor and SDK hosts can drive the flow: the VS Code notifications auto_default_nudge_shown and auto_default_nudge_resolved now go to a dedicated handler rather than being logged as generic events.
  • A second dialog kind, ide_onboarding, is registered alongside it.
Evidence

choose: make auto mode the default permission mode, tengu_maple_pier

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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