What
Session setup now carries a flag saying the permission mode was supplied at invocation, defaulting to true unless a caller explicitly says otherwise, so later code can tell an explicit --permission-mode from one inherited from elsewhere.
Evidence
permissionModeSuppliedOnInvocation
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundle--permission-mode
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.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --permission-mode, on CLI reference.
| `claude agents` | Open [agent view](/docs/en/agent-view) to monitor and dispatch parallel background sessions. Use `--cwd <path>` to show only sessions started under that directory, or `--json` to print active sessions as a JSON array fo…cli-reference see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --permission-mode, on CLI reference.