Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands, while human reviewers caught only 13.6 percent. For the most widely used AI coding tool, this means developers are shifting further from writing code to monitoring AI output.

Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude Code on August 14, replacing manual approvals that users accepted 93% of the time with AI

Claude Code auto mode will become the default permission setting for users next week. Starting August 14, sessions for Pro,...