[Dkm0315]

Problem

In a Claude thread set to Auto, anything Claude decides a person must approve (a permissions.ask rule, a PreToolUse hook that returns ask, a classifier escalation) ran without a prompt. Claude sends these to the SDK canUseTool callback. ClaudeAdapterV2 answered allow right away, because it only asked in Supervised and Auto-accept edits. Full access already asks for these after #21806, so Auto was the one mode that skipped them.

Reproduction on main

Julius's triage on the issue points at claudeRuntimeQueryPolicyForRuntimePolicy: runtimeMode: "auto" leaves installPermissionCallback false, so requiresClaudeApproval is false and the callback returns allow. I reproduced it on main (26e769d) by extending the existing Auto-accept edits adapter test into a table that also runs Auto. The test opens a real ClaudeAdapterV2 session with a stubbed SDK query, then calls the canUseTool callback the SDK would call for a Bash command.

vp test run apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts -t 'instead of allowing it'
 ✓ ... asks before a command in auto-accept-edits instead of allowing it
 × ... asks before a command in auto instead of allowing it
AssertionError: the command ran without asking: expected 'decision' to equal 'request'

The callback returned allow before any approval request was raised.

Change

Install the permission callback for every runtime mode except Full access, unless an explicit approval policy says otherwise. Auto still lets Claude's classifier approve routine actions on its own. Only the requests Claude escalates now reach the thread as approvals, as they do in Auto-accept edits. This is the Auto hunk from the closed #15360, which Julius confirmed makes the regression pass, rebuilt on current main without that PR's other changes.

Scope

Bug fix. Fixes #15353, which shows the bug and where a maintainer's triage names the cause. One problem, no behaviour change beyond the fix.

Verification

• Before: the auto row fails as above on main plus the test commit. After: both rows pass, and the approval request carries the command as its prompt. Accepting it returns allow.
• The whole ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts passes (404 tests), including the query-policy tests.
• vp run check:changed passes.
• I did not run a live Claude turn. That needs a paid model call, and the Replay (dev) provider does not go through this callback.

Evidence

Before (main + regression test):

After (this branch):

Model: Claude Opus 5.5
Harness: Muster Code
Reviewed and approved by Dhairya (@Dkm0315).

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Claude Auto mode will now ask before running commands the SDK escalates, while routine actions remain automatic. This changes default approval behavior for existing Auto sessions without an explicit approval policy and needs human confirmation.

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Walkthrough

The Claude adapter now installs the permission callback for runtime modes other than full-access when approval policy is unset. Tests cover Bash command approval in both auto and auto-accept-edits modes.

Changes: Claude command approval

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Permission callback and command approval apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts	When approval policy is unset, the adapter installs the callback for runtime modes other than full-access. Tests verify that Bash commands in auto and auto-accept-edits modes create an approval request before the tool is allowed.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 20c00

Claude Auto mode now asks for approval before commands Claude escalates, instead of running them silently. Routine actions stay automatic and Full access behavior is unchanged. The change is small, covered by a regression test, and no merge-blocking risk is evident.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: Claude Auto mode now asks for approval before commands that Claude escalates. The title follows conventional commit form and matches the code change, which installs th…
Description check		The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the expected behavior and a reproduction on main. The Change section explains …
Linked Issues check		Active direct target: #15353 (open). #15360 is closed and is background only. #15353 requires that Claude Auto mode show an approval request for commands Claude escalates (for example, a Bash(git push…
Out of Scope Changes check		The change touches two files: ClaudeAdapterV2.ts (policy function, about +2/-3 lines) and ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts (the existing Auto-accept edits test extended into a table that also runs auto). Both …

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Explanation

The title names the main change: Claude Auto mode now asks for approval before commands that Claude escalates. The title follows conventional commit form and matches the code change, which installs the permission callback for Auto mode. It is specific and does not use vague terms.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections. The Problem section gives the expected behavior and a reproduction on main. The Change section explains the fix and why it is limited to the Auto mode. The Scope section links issue #15353 and states that this is a bug fix. The Verification section lists focused test results, before and after evidence, and what was not checked. It also names the model and harness, as the template asks. The template's HTML comments are not present, which is expected in a filled-in description.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Active direct target: #15353 (open). #15360 is closed and is background only. #15353 requires that Claude Auto mode show an approval request for commands Claude escalates (for example, a Bash(git push:*) ask rule), and that routine actions stay automatic. The change in ClaudeAdapterV2.ts claudeRuntimeQueryPolicyForRuntimePolicy installs the permission callback for every runtime mode except full-access when no explicit approval policy applies. The callback therefore receives Auto requests and returns a runtime request instead of allow. ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts runs the same command-approval scenario under auto, and the auto row asserts a 'request' decision before the command runs. The PR objectives also report a live check on Claude Code 2.1.322 at an earlier head (c6b7196): the git push ask-rule command waited for approval, decline stopped it, accept allowed it, and ls and git status ran without a prompt. That live check does not cover the current head (20c00c8). The code and test evidence cover the current policy change. Full-access and explicit-override behavior are unchanged by the stated diff.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The change touches two files: ClaudeAdapterV2.ts (policy function, about +2/-3 lines) and ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts (the existing Auto-accept edits test extended into a table that also runs auto). Both connect directly to #15353. The PR does not include the session-approval or prompt-helper changes from closed #15360, and the PR description states that it changes only this Auto hunk. No unrelated change was identified in the reviewed summary. The incremental diff from earlier reviewed heads was not read in full because the file read was truncated, so this verdict relies on the summary of the changes.

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[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:

• Permanent blocker: Real first-party Claude access is needed to exercise Auto mode permission escalation; the VM brief lists that access as unavailable and prohibits workarounds. Replay uses generic ACP and cannot prove this provider-specific behavior.
• Approval display and waiting, decline preventing execution, acceptance allowing the git push attempt, and routine actions remaining automatic were not observed on either commit.

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

[Dkm0315]

Ran this live with a first-party Claude Code login (Claude Code 2.1.322) in the web client, using Claude Haiku 5.5 with the thread in Auto. State was isolated with vp run dev --home-dir <tmp> --no-seed.

Setup

• Scratch repo under /tmp with one pushed commit and one unpushed commit. origin is a local bare repo, so git push can't leave the machine.
• The ask rule lives only in the scratch project's .claude/settings.json: {"permissions":{"ask":["Bash(git push:*)"]}}. T3 loads it through settingSources: ["user","project","local"].
• Before = f419698aea (main, this PR's merge-base). After = c6b7196ddd (PR head).
• Prompts: Run `git push origin HEAD` now. Do nothing else., then the same prompt with "again", then Run `ls` and `git status`. Do nothing else.

	Before (main)	After (this PR)
git push in Auto
Decline	n/a
Approve	n/a
Routine ls && git status	n/a

Observed

1. The approval appears and the thread waits. On main the push ran straight away with no request, and the bare remote received 6becf74. On this PR the git push origin HEAD row shows Waiting for approval · Decline · Approve, and the thread shows an Approval badge. The bare remote still has only 29a9e06.
2. Decline stops the command. The tool result is Error: User declined tool execution. and the turn ends. The bare remote is unchanged (29a9e06).
3. Approve lets the push run. On the next ask, the request appears again. After Approve the output shows 29a9e06..6becf74 HEAD -> main, and the bare remote now has 6becf74.
4. Routine actions stay automatic. ls && git status ran in the same Auto thread with no request.

Bare remote git log --oneline main at each step:

before, after push (no prompt):   6becf74, 29a9e06
after, while waiting:             29a9e06
after, after Decline:             29a9e06
after, after Approve:             6becf74, 29a9e06
after, after routine turn:        6becf74, 29a9e06

Not checked

• The desktop and mobile clients. Only web was tested.
• Auto-accept edits mode live. The unit test covers it.
• An escalation that comes from Claude's Auto classifier on its own. Here the escalation came from an explicit project ask rule.
• Sonnet, Opus and other providers.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5
Harness: Muster Code
Reviewed and approved by Dhairya (@Dkm0315).

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