Unclear Which confirmations are marked person-only is not known.
What
A permission ask is the prompt Claude Code shows before Claude does something that needs your approval. Some asks are now marked person-only (personOnly), meaning a person must answer them. One example is Claude reading someone else's artifact that was created outside your organization. For these asks:
- The automatic resolver, the classifier that can approve actions on its own in auto mode, is no longer consulted.
- Permission-request hooks (commands you configure to run automatically on certain events) are no longer run to answer the ask.
- The coordinator's automated permission check is skipped. The ask carries
askIsPersonOnlyso that check can return early. - With
--permission-prompt-tool, which hands permission prompts to an MCP tool in non-interactive mode, the hooks that normally race that tool are skipped, as they already were for remote execution. The ask must be answered by the prompt tool. - The internal
confirmWithUserhelper, built on AskUserQuestion, takes a newpersonOnlyoption. It setsclassifierApprovableto false, so the classifier cannot answer the question. - The dialog opens with placement "under" and an input grace period, so keys you were typing just before it appeared do not answer it by accident.
Why
Before, a hook, the classifier or the coordinator could settle a prompt that was meant for a person. Person-only prompts now always wait for a human, and are harder to approve by accident while typing.
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.