Claude Code Stops Asking Aug 14. Prompts Aren't Policy.
On August 14 Claude Code defaults to auto mode on Pro, Max and Team plans. Anthropic's own docs say only permissions.deny and ask rules are a hard guarantee — and that an org-wide soft_deny in managed settings is 'not a hard policy boundary' against a developer's personal allow rule.
August 10, 2026 · 14 min read