{"version":"2.1.271","anchor":"auto-mode-now-refuses-tool-calls-that-require-a-persons-ans","canonical_anchor":"auto-mode-now-refuses-tool-calls-that-require-a-persons-ans","heading":"Auto mode now refuses tool calls that require a person's answer with nobody to ask","tier":"notice","area":"Auto Mode","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.271\/e\/auto-mode-now-refuses-tool-calls-that-require-a-persons-ans","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.271","markdown":"### Auto mode now refuses tool calls that require a person's answer with nobody to ask\n\nAuto mode now denies tool calls that would need a person's approval since nobody is there to ask\n\n**What**\n\nWhen 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nPreviously 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.\n\n- Area: Auto Mode\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}