/permissions renames its denied tab and shows what Esc will do

/permissions renames its denied tab and shows what Esc will do

In /permissions, the Recently denied tab is now Recently blocked, and the footer says whether Esc retries, approves or tells Claude

You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you

3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5

1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5

PermissionsArea: what it touches

ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.314, 30 Oct 26

ImprovementsSection of the release

What

The /permissions dialog, where you manage which tools Claude may use, changes how you act on actions that were blocked:

The "Recently denied" tab is now called "Recently blocked".
The footer used to always say "Esc to cancel". It now says "Esc to retry N blocked" or "Esc to approve N blocked", with N the number of items you marked.
If you mark items for retry while Claude is still working on a reply, the footer says "Esc to tell Claude next prompt".
Making the terminal window smaller clears any approvals and retries you had marked.
Search keys are not handled on the Recently blocked and workspace tabs.
Closing the dialog can no longer run twice.
Approving items no longer writes an "Approved ..." summary line.

Why

The footer now tells you what pressing Esc will do with the blocked actions you marked, including when Claude is in the middle of a reply.

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How sure we are

One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.

Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed auto mode reporting a call as blocked, and listing it in /permissions, when its safety check gave no verdict

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The build it came inv2.1.314

30 Oct 2026 · 430 entries, this one is #115.

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Names in this entry

slash/permissions
Manage allow, ask, and deny rules for tool permissions. Opens an interactive dialog where you can view rules by scope, add or remove rules, manage working directories, and review recent auto mode denials. You can also view and edit auto mode classifier rules from the dialog's Auto mode tab. When you run it while Claude is responding, Claude Code opens the dialog immediately and applies your changes starting with Claude's next tool call in the same turn. Before v2.1.234, Claude Code queued the command until the turn finished. Alias: /allowed-tools

Anthropic's notes

Upstream's own release notes for v2.1.314 name something this entry names, so the two are probably about the same change. Probably: the pairing is made on a shared name rather than on the words around it.

Fixed auto mode reporting a call as blocked, and listing it in /permissions, when its safety check gave no verdict
Improved /permissions review tab, now called Recently blocked: the footer says what Esc will do with marked rows
Improved auto mode's blocked calls: messages name the command, say Claude may retry and auto mode checks again, and point to /permissions to review
Changed /permissions Recently blocked to refuse approving a call you can't read in full, including one the terminal is too short to show

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