Dev slams Anthropic's auto mode classifier: stops zero bad actions, blocks legit work

cjimti · x · 2026-10-21

A developer publicly criticized Anthropic's auto mode permission classifier, saying it has been "100% garbage" in practice: it has caught and stopped not a single bad action so far, while constantly blocking legitimate work. In his view, the mode hardly deserves the label "auto."

It's an early negative datapoint on Claude Code's auto permission mode, highlighting reliability concerns for automated permission classification in real engineering workflows.

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