The one-time question offering to make auto mode your default permission mode is still controlled remotely. What changed is what Claude Code falls back to when the server sends no value: it used to be off and is now on. The other conditions still apply, including that someone who has not finished onboarding (the first-run setup) is not asked. The flag server has so far returned off for this site's account and for an account that is not signed in, and nothing has been read under this release yet.
If the server does not send a setting, you may now be asked whether to make auto mode your default.
tengu_maple_pier Off in both readingsThe flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.
This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.285: on
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.285. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you