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Claude Code v2.1.278 ·

Auto-mode permission decision flow reworked around the new billing notice

Auto mode's core permission check was rebuilt to run the new billing-notice logic before falling back to the local classifier

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Auto mode's core permission check was rebuilt to run the new billing-notice logic before falling back to the local classifier

What

The main function that decides whether a tool call needs permission in auto mode was restructured to check for the new billing-notice/fallback condition before calling the local classifier, and a new "no result" handler is now threaded through both the fast-path check (used in acceptEdits mode) and the main classification path.

Why

This ties the classifier billing notice into the actual permission decision flow, so a missing server verdict is handled consistently everywhere a tool call gets checked, rather than only in one code path.

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