Claude Code auto mode will become the default permission setting for users next week.
Starting August 14, sessions for Pro, Max, and Team users will use it unless a user or administrator has pinned another setting.
According to Anthropic, auto mode replaces repeated approval prompts with a classifier that checks each tool call for irreversible, destructive, or out-of-bounds actions.
If it blocks something, Claude can try a safer route or ask permission. After repeated blocks, the session falls back to manual approval.
As part of the change, Anthropic says it will no longer charge for “small number of extra tokens per tool call” used for the auto mode classifier.
