{"version":"2.1.246","anchor":"auto-mode-can-decline-an-unattended-artifact-comment-reply-a","canonical_anchor":"auto-mode-can-decline-an-unattended-artifact-comment-reply-a","heading":"Auto mode can decline an unattended artifact comment reply, and now says so","tier":"notice","area":"Artifacts","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246\/e\/auto-mode-can-decline-an-unattended-artifact-comment-reply-a","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.246","markdown":"### Auto mode can decline an unattended artifact comment reply, and now says so\n\nIf auto mode declines an unattended artifact comment reply, the reply is dropped and you get one notice.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen 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.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Drop reasons are recorded as `denied_by_auto_mode`, `auto_mode_no_verdict` (auto mode returned nothing) and `auto_mode_unavailable`; the summon is marked `declined_by_auto_mode` and a single `auto_mode_declined` notice is posted per artifact.\n- 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`.\n- The artifact `status` action 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.\n- 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.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`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`\n\n- Area: Artifacts\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}