You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Auto ModeArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.271,
ImprovementsSection of the release
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.
