Anthropic gives Claude Code new 'auto mode' which lets it choose its own permissions

Date:
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:05:00 +0000

Description:
Claude Code users have been bypassing permission prompts new "middle ground" auto mode will speed up Claude more safely.

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and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Auto mode for Claude is designed to approve safe actions and only seek permission for risky actions Anthropic knows developers have been skipping permissions altogether Research preview 'auto mode' rolling out to Teams, then Enterprise/API Anthropic has launched a new 'auto mode' for Claude Code,
which will ultimately let the AI tool decide permissions autonomously instead of asking users for approval to perform certain tasks.

The company said the update can speed up workflows by reducing the number of interruptions during long coding tasks at the moment, without use approval, Claude Code hits a roadblock and can't proceed. In short, it works by passing permission requests through a classifier to review every action before execution allowing safe actions automatically but blocking potentially risky actions like file deletion. Article continues below You may like Anthropic reveals Remote Control, a mobile version of Claude Code to keep you
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do with software engineering - so are developers letting AI take over? Anthropic is embedding Slack, Figman, and more into Claude chats Claude Code auto mode "Claude Code's default permissions are purposefully conservative," the company wrote, acknowledging that bigger tasks can take longer than intended as a result. The company also knows that some developers are
skipping permissions altogether, which can be seriously risky for data security, hence the launch of auto mode, Claude's "middle path."

When it thinks it's faced with something risky, the classifier prompts a permission request to the user.

The upgrade is being launched as a research preview, therefore it may not be fully reliable yet and may allow some risky actions if the context is
unclear. It may also block safe actions unnecessarily, but improvements
should roll out over time to make it more reliable.

It's also only being made available to Teams users for now, but we can expect a broader rollout to Enterprise and API users soon. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

It only works with Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6, and while backward compatibility is unlikely, it'll likely support future generations of these models. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!

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