While Anthropic says the shift will reduce permission fatigue and make Claude Code better suited to long-running tasks, analysts warn that greater autonomy could introduce new oversight, latency, and security risks.

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…

Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on …

Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive