{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"auto-mode-killswitchcircuit-breaker-now-falls-back-to-defau","canonical_anchor":"auto-mode-killswitchcircuit-breaker-now-falls-back-to-defau","heading":"Sessions switch to default mode whenever auto mode is shut off","tier":"notice","area":"Auto Mode","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/auto-mode-killswitchcircuit-breaker-now-falls-back-to-defau","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Sessions switch to default mode whenever auto mode is shut off\n\nWith auto mode shut off, settings, agent frontmatter and IDE sessions that ask for it now start in default mode\n\n**What**\n\nAuto 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:\n\n- your settings\n\n- agent frontmatter, the settings block at the top of an agent's definition file\n\n- IDE sessions\n\nBefore, 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhen auto mode is unavailable, you can count on the session being in default mode, where Claude asks before acting.\n\n- Flag `tengu_moss_anchor`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.323; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: 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.\n- Area: Auto Mode\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}