Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud SessionsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.288,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A permission mode decides how much Claude may do without asking you first. When a cloud session starts, Claude Code now passes the level you typed and any mode carried over from before to the code that chooses the starting mode. This replaces the earlier check for whether auto mode could be set up by default.
Why
This may change which permission mode a cloud session starts in.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhich starting mode results in which case is not established.