{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"auto-mode-allowlist-can-exclude-tools","canonical_anchor":"auto-mode-allowlist-can-exclude-tools","heading":"Tools can opt out of being allowed automatically in auto mode","tier":"notice","area":"Auto Mode","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/auto-mode-allowlist-can-exclude-tools","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Tools can opt out of being allowed automatically in auto mode\n\nAuto mode's list of automatically allowed tools can now leave out a tool that marks itself as excluded, so that tool is never allowed automatically\n\n**Unclear.** Which tools, if any, mark themselves as excluded is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nIn auto mode, Claude Code runs some tools without stopping to ask you first, based on an allowlist (a list of tools it treats as safe to run automatically). The check against that list used to look a tool up by its name alone. It now looks at the tool itself, and a tool can declare that it is excluded from the list. A tool that does this is never allowed automatically, even in auto mode.\n\n**Why**\n\nA tool can now ask to always go through the normal permission prompt, whatever auto mode would otherwise allow.\n\n- Area: Auto Mode\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}