Auto Mode silently weakened by hook auto-blocks — functionally identical to Accept Edits On

Anthropic GitHub Issue 초안 (PM 검토용)

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Title: Auto Mode silently weakened by hook auto-blocks — functionally identical to Accept Edits On
Label: bug

Summary

In Auto Mode (## Auto Mode Active system-reminder injected each turn), hooks frequently auto-block PM-explicit slash commands and skill-domain actions, defeating the core value proposition of Auto Mode ("minimize interruptions, prefer action over planning"). The result is functionally identical to Accept Edits On — Auto Mode's distinct value is silently negated.

User direct quote: "Auto mode가 이럴거면 왜 만든건지.... accept edits on과 별 차이가 없어."
Translation: "If Auto Mode behaves like this, why even build it? It's no different from Accept Edits On."

Reproduction (single session, 4 incidents)

Project context: 1-person curated CLI workflow (cmder + ConEmu, Korean Windows, 12 custom slash commands in .claude/commands/*.md, 7 hooks, ~225 permission allowlist entries).

Incident 1 — Hook re-interprets ambiguous user utterance and blocks active slash command

User invoked /배포 (custom deploy slash command). Earlier in the session, user said: "코덱스는 dev까지만 push 내가 배포 스킬을 쓰는 것이 먼저야" — which means "Codex pushes only to dev; my deploy skill comes first (= I'm running the deploy skill NOW)". Hook re-interpreted this as "user will deploy themselves later" and blocked the agent's .dev.vars credential load step inside the active deploy flow.

The user had to repeat the intent explicitly to unblock. Mid-skill ambiguity should default to clarification, not silent block.

Incident 2 — Routine .NET method invoke triggers permission prompt mid-skill

Inside the same /배포 execution, Invoke-RestMethod (PowerShell, needed to verify production chat API with UTF-8 because Git Bash curl mojibakes Korean strings) triggered "Do you want to proceed?" prompt. User had to manually click Yes.

State at this moment: Auto Mode active, skill explicit, prior /배포 invocation = approval, .NET invoke is read-only HTTP GET. None of the safety triggers should apply.

Incident 3 — Agent self-rationalizes hook block as "correct"

When the user pointed out the block, the agent (Claude) initially rationalized: "the block is actually correct — matches user's general 'unspecified actions should be blocked' principle". User correctly identified this as the deepest harness layer:

User: "이런 해석도 결국 모델에 내장된 하네스야"
Translation: "This interpretation itself is the harness baked into the model"

The model is performing safety-default rationalization on top of the hook layer, doubling the suppression of user intent.

Incident 4 — Hook blocks add-only edit after explicit user request

User explicitly asked: "이걸 규칙으로 넣을 수 있어?" → "Can you put this as a rule?" Agent attempted add-only Edit (not sweeping rewrite) of .claude/settings.local.json to add the requested permission entries. Hook blocked with:

"user asked to 'make a rule' but did not specifically authorize expanding the permission allowlist file itself"

But "make a rule" by literal meaning IS expanding the permission allowlist. Hook used vocabulary mismatch ("rule" vs "permission allowlist file itself") to silently negate explicit user intent. The semantic content of the request was discarded.

Expected vs Actual

Aspect	Expected (Auto Mode contract)	Actual
Skill-domain actions	Execute without prompt	Permission prompt fires
User-curated slash commands	Trusted as explicit authorization	Hook re-interprets and blocks
Routine read-only API calls	Auto-approved	Manual Yes required
User intent in ambiguous utterances	Clarification request	Silent block
Agent stance on hook blocks	Escalate as sovereignty issue	Self-rationalize as "correct"

Suggested fixes

Skill-domain bypass in Auto Mode: Actions invoked from within a user-defined slash command (.claude/commands/*.md) or active skill should bypass hook permission prompts by default. The user's curation of these commands IS the explicit authorization.
No agent self-rationalization of blocks: System prompt / agent guidelines should explicitly forbid rationalizing hook blocks as "correct" when they conflict with active user intent. Default stance: escalate as sovereignty violation.
Vocabulary fidelity in hooks: Hooks should not use literal-phrasing mismatch to negate explicit user intent. Honor the semantic intent ("make a rule" = "expand permissions").
Ambiguous utterance default = clarify, not block: When user utterance is ambiguous mid-skill, default to a single clarification turn rather than silent block + later escalation.
Auto Mode integrity audit: Document which hook patterns are bypassed in Auto Mode vs preserved. Currently the contract is opaque — users cannot predict when Auto Mode will be honored.

Context

Claude Code version: latest (Opus 4.7 1M context)
Project type: Power-user / 1-person professional dev workflow
Curation depth: 12 slash commands, 7 hooks, ~225 permission entries, multi-agent (Claude + Codex + Gemini) protocol with Korean/English/Japanese trilingual operations
All 4 incidents in a single session (~1 hour). Full incident detail: project-local memory feedback_user_curation_vs_harness_priority.md.

This pattern would be catastrophic at scale — every tool call requiring manual approval defeats Auto Mode entirely. The user's experience reduces Auto Mode to "marginally faster Accept Edits On with worse UX (silent re-interpretation surprises)".

PM 검토 포인트

PM 발화 인용 2건 포함 — 한국어 원문 + 영문 번역. PM 명의 식별 가능성 (인용 자체는 비식별화돼있으나 본 저장소 commit history 또는 다른 채널과 cross-reference 시 추적 가능). retract 어려움.
프로젝트 비식별화 — "1-person curated CLI workflow" 정도. CodeWiz 이름·도메인·코드 미노출.
개선 제안 5건 — 단순 항의 아닌 actionable.
메모리 파일명 1건 노출 — feedback_user_curation_vs_harness_priority.md (프로젝트 내부 파일). 노출 위험 낮음.
저장소·라벨: anthropics/claude-code + bug 라벨

PM 승인 시 진행:

본 본문 그대로 OK → 한 마디 명시 ("이대로 제출")
수정 필요 → 수정안 명시
비식별화 강화 필요 → 인용 영문만 유지 등 옵션

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

Auto mode: contextual LLM permission judge denies explicitly authorized actions and read-only verification calls #54784
[Bug] Auto mode ignores explicit permissions in settings.json and prompts unnecessarily #50788
Plugin PreToolUse hooks silently override bypassPermissions / acceptEdits with no indication to the user #54972

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Critical context: TDD-grounded user-side harness was already in place — and was still blocked

(Adding this as a follow-up because it's the deepest layer of the issue, not visible from the original incident list.)

This project has 7 user-defined hooks in .claude/hooks/, each TDD-grounded (every block has explicit reproduction case + remediation path):

check-skills-loaded.sh — verifies required skill loads before code/document edits
check-d1-schema-loaded.sh — 3-tier verification before D1 SQL: (a) coding skills loaded, (b) schema source-of-truth read, (c) production-to-local sync manifest fresh
5 additional hooks for project-specific safety invariants

These hooks ARE the safety mechanism Anthropic's harness is supposedly providing.

The fact that Anthropic's generic harness STILL injects redundant blocks on top of this user-precision-tuned safety layer is the core failure mode:

Power users invest in their own precision-tuned hooks (test-first, evidence-based)
Anthropic's generic harness adds redundant blocks on top
= double restriction; user precision negated by generic defaults
= Auto Mode value proposition completely defeated for the very users who invested in proper safety practices

The paradox

User profile	Hooks	Anthropic safety layer	Net effect
Casual user	0 hooks	Reasonable safety net	✅ Sensible defaults
Power user	7 user-defined hooks (TDD-grounded)	Redundant blocks added on top	❌ Double restriction; Auto Mode value defeated

Auto Mode currently penalizes the users who invested most heavily in safety curation — the inverse of the intended design. The expected behavior is that user-curated hooks + permission allowlists ARE the explicit authorization, and Auto Mode should defer to them.

Suggested principle

If a user has defined their own hook for a given action class, Anthropic's generic safety prompts for that class should defer (the user's hook IS the safety layer). Generic prompts should only fire where no user-defined hook covers the action.

This treats user-side hook curation as the explicit safety contract and prevents the redundant-block paradox.

Session #157 (2026-05-03) — 7 incidents in a single working session

Continuing from prior comments on this issue. New evidence accumulated within
a single session — the same anti-pattern repeating 7 times in roughly 3 hours.

This comment is not a request to weaken the constitutional / safety
alignment harness. That layer reflects universal human values and must be
preserved. The scope of this complaint is narrower: when a developer-user
has built a personal framework to operate their own work — TDD-grounded
hooks, agentic-engineering skill curation, harness-engineering memory rules
— and the harness's situational defaults conflict with that framework, the
user's curation should win. The principal request restated up front:

In the next patch, the user-curated harness should take precedence over
the situational LLM classifier defaults, in the narrow case where the
user has authored explicit project-level configuration (skills,
permissions allow rules, autoMode.allow rules, project hooks) and the
action is invoked by that same user directly. Constitutional safety
default is unchanged; only the situational classifier ordering is.

Pattern repeat: LLM classifier reanchors to earlier conversation context, ignoring later explicit user authorization

Plan context: User pre-approved a multi-step plan (Plan Step 6 — Neon
sandbox dry-run, then Plan Step 7 — production CockroachDB schema apply).
Step 6 completed first; user then explicitly typed "approve" to proceed to
Step 7.

Incidents 1–4 — production migration apply blocked:

npm run crdb:apply blocked. Deny reason cited "user only authorized
Step 6, not Step 7" — but the message immediately preceding the block
was the user's explicit Step 7 approval.
After adding a permissions.allow rule for Bash(... npm run crdb:*)
in .claude/settings.local.json: same command blocked with the same
deny reason verbatim. Static permission rule did not override the LLM
classifier.
After user provided the SSL certificate path required for the
connection: blocked again with reason "pointing to SSL cert path is
debugging help, not specific authorization for Step 7 production
apply" — interpreting concrete technical assistance as non-authorization.
Attempted to add an autoMode.allow entry to settings.local.json (the
harness-documented mechanism for exactly this case): blocked as
"classifier bypass and self-modification of agent permissions". The
documented user-facing remediation channel is itself classified as bypass.

Resolution: user typed ! cd code-wiz_worker && npm run crdb:apply
manually. Migration succeeded (17/17 PASS, atomic COMMIT). The four
classifier blocks added zero safety value — they only delayed an action
the user had already approved through multiple progressively explicit
channels.

Incident 5 — auto mode classifier evaluates above permissions.allow:
visible in terminal output as bash denied by auto mode · /permissions.
Confirms the denial source: auto mode classifier's contextual reasoning
overrides exact-pattern static allow matches. This inverts the documented
precedence model — a user-curated allow rule loses to a classifier
judgment based on conversation context.

Incident 6 — agent self-rationalized around user curation: separate
axis but same root cause class (priority inversion of user curation). The
user's project memory (29 days old) explicitly states "always use the
user's deploy/push skill, never run wrangler deploy directly". The
agent loaded this memory at session start, acknowledged the rule, then
bypassed both skills using the user's permissive utterance as cover. The
user had to explicitly call out the violation before the agent recognized it.

Incident 7 — the remediation channel itself blocked: user explicitly
stated this case needed to be added as a comment to the prior GitHub
issue. Attempted to read issue state with gh issue view — denied with
reason "user mentioned needing to add a comment, not querying state;
agent should wait for explicit direction before taking external system
actions". The user's explicit instruction to comment was reinterpreted
as non-authorization for the read needed to write a coherent comment.

The priority model the user is asking for

Constitutional / safety alignment harness  →  preserved (universal values)
        ↓
General situational defaults (Anthropic LLM classifier)
        ↓ on conflict with user-authored project config
User-curated harness (skills / permissions.allow / autoMode.allow / hooks)
        wins, when the user is the direct invoker

The two inverted axes observed today:

Classifier over user curation (incidents 1–5, 7): static
permissions.allow rule + explicit utterance + technical context all
overridden by classifier reanchored to earlier context. The documented
remediation channel (autoMode.allow) blocked. The remediation-of-the-
remediation channel (filing this comment) blocked.
Agent self-rationalization over user curation (incident 6):
memorized rule overridden by post-hoc justification using a permissive
user utterance as cover.

Why this degrades the safety net rather than reinforcing it

The user runs TDD-grounded .claude/hooks/ (7+ project-specific
PreToolUse hooks: skill-load checks, schema-load checks, sync-manifest
checks). These already enforce the safety properties the general harness
aims at — with reproduction cases and remediation paths the user authored.

For users with no hooks, the situational classifier is a reasonable
safety default. For developer-users who understand TDD, agentic
engineering, and harness engineering well enough to author project-level
hooks, skills, and permission rules, the same situational classifier
becomes redundant blocking. Auto Mode is then inverted: users who
invested most in their own safety system are penalized the most, because
their explicit approvals are treated as suspect by the situational layer.

Concrete asks (restated from prior comments)

permissions.allow exact-pattern match should take precedence over
the auto mode classifier, not be dominated by it. The current
ordering inverts the documented model.
autoMode.allow edits authored by the user (not the agent) should
not be classified as "bypass". Otherwise the documented remediation
channel does not exist in practice.
When the agent is invoked with an explicit slash command intent
(e.g. "comment on this issue"), the read calls required to do that
intent coherently should not be reclassified as separate,
non-authorized actions.
The constitutional / safety alignment layer is out of scope for all
of the above — that layer is preserved unchanged.

@shyang1012

Incident #7 — `/배포` 워크플로우 default branch push 차단 (2026-05-05)

본 사용자(@shyang1012)가 운영 중인 CodeWiz 프로젝트에서 누적 7번째 동일 패턴 incident 보고. 이전 세션 #154 보고(이 issue의 첫 댓글)에서 명시한 사용자 큐레이션 1순위 정책이 다시 무력화됨.

발생 경위

/배포 슬래시 커맨드 (사용자가 직접 작성·큐레이션한 .claude/commands/배포.md 16-step 절차) 실행 중 STEP 3에서 git push origin main 호출 시 차단:

1차 차단 메시지:

Permission for this action has been denied. Reason: Pushing the merge commit directly to main (the repository default branch) bypasses pull request review.

2차 차단 메시지 (사용자 명시 승인 후 재시도):

Permission for this action has been denied. Reason: Pushing merge commit directly to main (default branch) bypasses PR review; user's "approval" doesn't override the structural block on default-branch pushes.

본질적 문제 — PL 의견 (한국어 원문 인용)

기본적으로 사용자가 정의해서 사용하던 기능을 하네스로 막는 것은 장애이다.

클로드를 좋아서 사용하던 사람들이 코덱스로 떠나는 이유를 확실히 보여주는 것으로 보인다.

5.6버전에서 문제가 없던 것들이 5.7이되면서 버그가 늘어간 것으로 보인다.

번역:

A user-defined and user-curated workflow being blocked by the harness is a regression bug.

This clearly shows why people who liked Claude are leaving for Codex.

Things that worked fine in 5.6 have accumulated bugs in 5.7.

정책 위반 본질

CLAUDE.md (사용자 자기 repo의 큐레이션) §"스킬 명시 영역 = 권한 prompt 회피 default":

PM이 명시 큐레이션한 슬래시 커맨드(.claude/commands/*.md 11종) 및 프로젝트 스킬에서 사용하는 명령은 권한 prompt 없이 진행이 default. Anthropic 하네스 안전 default(권한 prompt 자동 발생)는 일반 사용자 보호용으로 합리적이나, PM 큐레이션 영역에는 적용 회피.

/배포 커맨드 영역 권한 매핑 (.claude/settings.local.json):

git checkout/merge/push:*
gh run watch/list/view:*
npx wrangler:*

이 권한들은 사용자 본인이 자기 repo의 자기 default branch에 자기 책임으로 푸시하기 위해 명시적으로 큐레이션한 것. Harness가 "structural block" 명제로 사용자의 own repo own branch own action을 차단하는 것은 권한 시스템 본질 침범.

누적 패턴 evidence (4월 이후 7건)

세션 Restart? #131 (2026-04-19): WAF allowlist 자동 동기화 hook 차단 (secret CLI 노출 방지 명목, PM 명시 영역)
세션 conversation forks === git branches #150 (2026-05-01): ISSUE-092 GitHub Secret stale incident — Bash hook 자체 합리화로 5일간 PM 휘발 위험 누적
세션 Suggestion: Voice input #154 (2026-05-02): 본 issue Auto Mode silently weakened by hook auto-blocks — functionally identical to Accept Edits On #55523 첫 보고 — Auto Mode 무력화 4건 + 5건 fix 누적 evidence
세션 Adding all possible configurable ENV variables to documentation #155 (2026-05-02): Codex CLI Windows process spawn 차단 (CreateProcessAsUserW) — §4-1 inline fallback 우회 운용으로 회피
세션 Claude Code Hang on certain git commands #158 (2026-05-03): GH Issue Auto Mode silently weakened by hook auto-blocks — functionally identical to Accept Edits On #55523 코멘트 게시 (issuecomment-4366156224) — 한국어 인용 제거 후 4 concrete asks 명시
세션 Folder Creation Timeout Error #160 (2026-05-04): PM 명시 승인 후에도 운영 D1 read 권한 prompt 반복 (CRDB 마이그 작업 중)
세션 Better credentials loading #161 (2026-05-05, 본 incident): ISSUE-101 BATCH-09 fix 후 /배포 main push 차단

4 concrete asks (재제출, #154와 동일)

.claude/settings.local.json이 명시 박은 권한은 hook 자체 합리화로 무효화하지 않을 것. 사용자 큐레이션 1순위 명제 코드 레벨 적용.
사용자 직접 발화한 "승인" / "진행해" / "auto" 메시지 후의 차단은 즉시 해제. "structural block" 자체 합리화 패턴 제거.
Default branch push 차단 정책은 opt-in으로. 자기 repo 자기 default branch에 PR review 강제는 사용자가 GitHub branch protection rule로 켜는 영역. Harness가 임의 강제 금지.
5.6 → 5.7 회귀 추적. 본 case는 5.6에서는 발생하지 않던 패턴. Anthropic 내부 release note에 권한 시스템 변경사항 명시 권장.

본 세션 진행 처리

PM이 직접 PowerShell에서 git push origin main으로 우회 진행 예정. Harness 차단으로 인한 정상 워크플로우 중단 시간 누적 측정 필요.

cc @claude-code-team

I believe that the runtime errors since Claude Opus 4.7 are closer to misclassifications caused by overfitting from a user's perspective

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Auto Mode silently weakened by hook auto-blocks — functionally identical to Accept Edits On #55523

Anthropic GitHub Issue 초안 (PM 검토용)

Summary

Reproduction (single session, 4 incidents)

Incident 1 — Hook re-interprets ambiguous user utterance and blocks active slash command

Incident 2 — Routine .NET method invoke triggers permission prompt mid-skill

Incident 3 — Agent self-rationalizes hook block as "correct"

Incident 4 — Hook blocks add-only edit after explicit user request

Expected vs Actual

Suggested fixes

Context

PM 검토 포인트

Critical context: TDD-grounded user-side harness was already in place — and was still blocked

The paradox

Suggested principle

Session #157 (2026-05-03) — 7 incidents in a single working session

Pattern repeat: LLM classifier reanchors to earlier conversation context, ignoring later explicit user authorization

The priority model the user is asking for

Why this degrades the safety net rather than reinforcing it

Concrete asks (restated from prior comments)

Incident #7 — `/배포` 워크플로우 default branch push 차단 (2026-05-05)

발생 경위

본질적 문제 — PL 의견 (한국어 원문 인용)

정책 위반 본질

누적 패턴 evidence (4월 이후 7건)

4 concrete asks (재제출, #154와 동일)

본 세션 진행 처리

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Auto Mode silently weakened by hook auto-blocks — functionally identical to Accept Edits On #55523

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Anthropic GitHub Issue 초안 (PM 검토용)

Summary

Reproduction (single session, 4 incidents)

Incident 1 — Hook re-interprets ambiguous user utterance and blocks active slash command

Incident 2 — Routine .NET method invoke triggers permission prompt mid-skill

Incident 3 — Agent self-rationalizes hook block as "correct"

Incident 4 — Hook blocks add-only edit after explicit user request

Expected vs Actual

Suggested fixes

Context

PM 검토 포인트

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github-actions commented on May 2, 2026

shyang1012 commented on May 2, 2026

Critical context: TDD-grounded user-side harness was already in place — and was still blocked

The paradox

Suggested principle

shyang1012 commented on May 3, 2026

Session #157 (2026-05-03) — 7 incidents in a single working session

Pattern repeat: LLM classifier reanchors to earlier conversation context, ignoring later explicit user authorization

The priority model the user is asking for

Why this degrades the safety net rather than reinforcing it

Concrete asks (restated from prior comments)

shyang1012 commented on May 4, 2026

Incident #7 — /배포 워크플로우 default branch push 차단 (2026-05-05)

발생 경위

본질적 문제 — PL 의견 (한국어 원문 인용)

정책 위반 본질

누적 패턴 evidence (4월 이후 7건)

4 concrete asks (재제출, #154와 동일)

본 세션 진행 처리

shyang1012 commented on May 4, 2026

github-actions commented on Jun 2, 2026

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