What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
The Auto mode tab of /permissions gains an "Edit environment" action that opens the environment rules as a document in your editor. When you save, the whole draft is re-checked against what the screen loaded and refused with "The environment changed since this screen loaded" if it moved underneath you. Lines starting with ### are treated as section headers, not rules, and cannot be added, edited or deleted through this flow.
Details
The tab renders whenever auto mode is available to the session; it is hidden only when the session reports auto mode unavailable. No remote flag controls it.
All add, update, delete and toggle paths are now wrapped in a telemetry span named auto_mode_rule_edit, whose failure code comes from the underlying write error.
One branch is dead by construction: the toggle path computes its escape hatch as a function that always returns false, so switching off an empty section always refuses with "An empty section cannot hold the off state".
Evidence
'### ' lines are environment section headers (structure, not entries) and cannot be written here.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Run Claude Code programmatically touched a line naming /permissions after this was published.* **`dontAsk`**: Claude Code denies every call that would otherwise prompt, which is useful for locked-down CI runs. Actions that need no approval in Manual mode still run, such as file reads in your working directories and the [read-only …headlesssee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /permissions, on Permissions.url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/compliance/organizations/roles/permissionsapi/compliance/organizations/roles/permissionssee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up /permissions, on Permissions.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded an Auto mode tab to /permissions for viewing and editing auto mode classifier rules
