Auto mode can be turned off by an emergency switch or by an automatic safety cutoff. When that happens, Claude Code now sets the session to default mode in more places that would have asked for auto mode:
- your settings
- agent frontmatter, the settings block at the top of an agent's definition file
- IDE sessions
Before, some of these left the mode unset. For non-interactive sessions, starting in auto mode is still controlled by the same server-side switch, which falls back to off.
When auto mode is unavailable, you can count on the session being in default mode, where Claude asks before acting.
tengu_moss_anchor 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 v2.1.323: off
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 v2.1.323. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you