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What
AskUserQuestion is the tool Claude uses to put a multiple-choice question to you. Its screen now works out whether the question is a confirmation that Claude Code itself forced, rather than one the model chose to ask. It counts as one when all of these are true:
- Forced: the permission check says the caller forced the question.
- No source: the request has no named source.
- ID check: a check on the tool call's ID passes.
The result is handed to the part that builds the list of questions.
Why
The question screen can now tell a confirmation Claude Code requires apart from a question the model asked.
Names in the bundleAskUserQuestion
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
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A small documentation edit on All settings touched a line naming AskUserQuestion after this was published.
Let an unanswered [`AskUserQuestion`](/docs/en/tools-reference) dialog auto-continue after a period of idle time, submitting whatever options you had already selected. Set it when you step away and want Claude to continue without you. With…settings-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up AskUserQuestion, on Hooks reference.
| `permissionDecision` | `"allow"` skips the permission prompt, except for the [actions no mode auto-approves](/docs/en/permission-modes#actions-no-mode-auto-approves) and for `AskUserQuestion` and `ExitPlanMode`, which need [`updatedInput…hooks see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up AskUserQuestion, on Hooks reference.