You'll notice
Auto mode now denies tool calls that would need a person's approval since nobody is there to ask
What
When Claude Code is running in auto mode (without a person available to respond to permission prompts), it now explicitly denies a tool call if the permission decision for that call is "ask" and either the underlying reason or a matched permission rule's behavior is also "ask". The denial message states that the call trips a check only a person may answer, and nobody is available to ask.
Why
Previously such calls might have stalled or behaved unpredictably with no one to respond to a prompt; now auto mode fails safely by denying the call outright rather than waiting indefinitely for input that will never come.