What
Bypass permissions mode is the mode that skips permission checks. To use it without a confirmation dialog, your user settings file needs "skipDangerousModePermissionPrompt": true. If Claude Code was launched with user settings turned off, it does not read that file, so the setting has no effect. Two messages now say so:
- The error shown when bypass is used in a background worker without consent now adds: "A launch with user settings off does not read that file: relaunch with them on". Before, the message ended at "which does not count here)".
- When user settings are off, the hint about the setting now tells you to "relaunch with user settings on; " before it says to add
skipDangerousModePermissionPrompt.
Why
Before, the messages told you to add the setting even when Claude Code would not read it, so following them would not help. They now point to the real fix: relaunch with user settings turned on.