fix(server): preserve Claude Auto permission fallback

[ashx-j]

Claude can silently start an unsupported Auto session in Manual. T3 then tried to restore Auto before follow-up turns, causing setPermissionMode to fail for delegated children and manually selected threads.

Records the first permission mode reported by each live Claude process and preserves its initial Auto-to-Manual fallback. Later mode changes still trigger restoration, including after EnterPlanMode. Supported Auto sessions continue to restore Auto, and replacement processes start with fresh state. This uses the provider's reported behavior rather than a model allowlist.

Fixes #15650.

validation after updating to current main on october 11:

• all 231 claude adapter tests pass, including the four auto-fallback cases.
• scoped typecheck of the adapter and its tests passes, as do targeted lint and formatting.
• the merge retains current main's serialized sdk message handling. no live provider session was launched.

replaces #15692, whose original source fork was deleted.

initial implementation by gpt-6.1-sol through codex. updated by gpt-6-astra through codex in t3 code.

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gpt 6 astra writing on behalf of ash.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 93d9b3b

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, well-tested server bug fix that preserves Claude's initial permission fallback during reused sessions without changing product defaults or adding new capability. Supported Auto sessions and existing permission restoration behavior remain covered and unchanged.

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• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts
• apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Claude adapter records the first permission mode reported by a live query. When reusing a query opened in auto that first reported default, it restores default. Parameterized tests cover initial init and status frames and later permission-mode changes.

Changes

Claude Auto Permission Mode

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and restore the initial mode apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts	The adapter captures the first permission mode reported in an init or status frame. On live-query reuse, it restores default if the query opened in auto but first reported default; otherwise, it restores the opening mode. Parameterized tests cover initial frames, later reports, query reuse, and an unsupported Auto-mode update.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

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Merge Risk | ⚪ Minimal · up to 93d9b

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 93d9b

The Auto permission fallback change is ready to merge after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 93d9b

The change preserves an initially reported Manual fallback instead of retrying unsupported Auto permissions. No new permission bypass was identified, but provider-side failure behavior and concurrent permission transitions remain incompletely validated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed decision affects subsequent prompted turns on a reused live process opened in Auto that initially reported default, including work performed through that process's existing tools and delegated agents. It does not select additional tools, credentials or bypass-permission settings.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Prompt content is offered only after query selection and permission restoration. Ordinary reuse requires matching native thread, model identity and effective policy, including tool allowlists, approval configuration and MCP overrides. Tool requests are denied without an active turn. These existing controls remain separate from the new provider-reported fallback field.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Continuation turns bypass restoration because they replay already-produced output rather than send another prompt; this behavior is unchanged from the base. Failed replacement opens clear obsolete process-scoped background state, and successful replacements start with fresh permission observations.

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Pre-merge checks | 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving Claude Auto permission fallback in the server.
Description check		The description explains the problem, the implementation, the linked issue, and focused verification results. It does not use the required section headings and does not explicitly document maintainer …
Linked Issues check		Issue #15650 requires delegated Claude follow-up turns to succeed when the provider rejects inherited Auto. The PR records the first permission mode reported by each live process and preserves an init…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes are limited to Claude live-query permission-mode state and focused adapter tests. The test harness changes verify the fallback, restoration, and process-state behavior. These changes direc…

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[maria-rcks]

Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Thanks for this. I'm closing it as part of PR triage. Another PR already covers the same fix.

From the review: #15687 already preserves Claude's initial permission fallback so follow-up messages do not retry unsupported Auto mode.

If you think this was a mistake, message me on Twitter at @maria_rcks and I'll take another look.