What
When Claude is set up to answer comments on an artifact unattended and the session is in auto mode, the pre-flight permission check is now evaluated against your permission rules alone rather than the auto-permission classifier. The real decision happens at reply time, and if auto mode declines it, the reply is dropped and you get a one-time notice per artifact saying it was not posted.
Details
- Drop reasons are recorded as
denied_by_auto_mode,auto_mode_no_verdict(auto mode returned nothing) andauto_mode_unavailable; the summon is markeddeclined_by_auto_modeand a singleauto_mode_declinednotice is posted per artifact. - The rules-only pre-flight applies only when no chain-on-allow, prompt-avoidance or classifier deny rule matches; those telemetry events are tagged
rules_only. - The artifact
statusaction can now report per-artifact auto-reply states "declined" and "denied" alongside armed, paused, yielded, stopped and disarmed, distinguishing an auto-mode refusal from a permission rule or setting blocking the reply silently. - The follow-up form of the notice tells Claude that only this session's acknowledgement is in the thread and that the promised reply must be reposted with
acknowledge_duplicate: true, because the duplicate guard refuses a plain follow-up.
Evidence
reply_auto_mode_no_verdict, a permission rule or setting blocked the last comment's auto-reply (no notice); later comments are still checked, Auto mode did not approve an unattended auto-reply, so the reply was not posted, denied_by_auto_mode
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.