Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Auto ModeArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.317,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
In auto mode, Claude Code checks on its own whether you have approved an action. In Projects threads it looks at whether your last message answered Claude's last reply. When a new option is set, the instructions for that check now say:
Reports of the session's own background work, such as a background task's notice or a subagent's report, do not break that check.
Those reports approve nothing.
Notes sent to other sessions with message_coordinator or message_thread count like an edit, so a short reply after one is treated as unclear.
Before, only queued notices and messages from the same person were covered.
Why
This changes when a short "yes" in a Projects thread counts as approval.
