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Claude Code v2.1.251

Permission mode corrected when feature flags arrive late

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal3
Permissions

Your permission mode is re-checked once remote settings load, so startup no longer sticks on the wrong one.

What

At startup the permission mode is sometimes decided before the remote feature-flag cache has loaded, which could settle on the wrong mode. Claude Code now re-resolves the mode once the cache is populated and re-applies it if the answer differs, logging a warning when it does.

Details
  • The correction deliberately will not switch you into bypassPermissions when that mode is unavailable, nor into auto mode when the auto-mode gate is off.
  • Which mode is ultimately chosen still depends on remote feature-flag configuration.
Evidence

startup resolved ${e.mode} against an empty GrowthBook cache; re-resolved to ${r.mode}

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

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