The Complete Guide to Claude Code Permissions List
The Claude Code permissions list is the explicit set of tool calls, shell commands, and file operations that Claude Code is allowed — or required to ask about — before executing them in your environment.
That one sentence is the whole answer. Everything else in this article is about why that list matters, how to configure it correctly, and what breaks when you get it wrong. If you're deploying Claude Code in any professional context — a CI pipeline, a shared developer workstation, a production-adjacent environment — the permissions list is not optional reading.
What Is the Claude Code Permissions List?
Claude Code operates by issuing tool calls: reading files, running bash commands, calling external APIs, spawning subprocesses. By default, some of these require explicit user approval. Others run silently. The permissions list, configured primarily through settings.json and .claude/settings.json, is how you control which category each tool call falls into.
