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New instructions tell an agent how to approve or refuse a pending shutdown request by tool call rather than plain text.
New generated instructions tell an agent exactly how to respond to a pending shutdown_request: call a specific tool with a JSON message containing the shutdown's request_id and approve set to true or false. The text notes that a plain-text acknowledgment does not actually shut the process down.
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The verdict your server sends back is `notifications/claude/channel/permission` with two fields: `request_id` echoing the ID above, and `behavior` set to `'allow'` or `'deny'`. Allow lets the tool call proceed; deny rejects it. Neither ver…channels-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up request_id, on Agent SDK reference - TypeScript.
The control-response wrapper for a successful `initialize` also carries a `pending_permission_requests` array. The field is on the response wrapper itself, not in the `SDKControlInitializeResponse` payload above. Each entry is a complete `…agent-sdk/typescript see the edit
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Claude Code treats a symlink whose target is outside your working directory like an [external import](#import-additional-files). The linked rules don't load until you approve external imports for the project, and after that only the ones w…memory see the edit
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When the app opens, sign in with your Claude account. On Windows, the app opens claude.ai in your default browser for this and continues in the app window once you approve the sign-in. If the sign-in redirect can't return to the app (for e…claude-science/get-started see the edit
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