Anthropic will now let Claude do things on your behalf by default

Update comes amid panic over danger from ‘rogue’ AI – but company says its chatbot is better at knowing whether something is dangerous than humans are

Claude Code's auto mode, which doesn't ask for prompts at each step, is now the default option.

Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive

Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.

Claude Code auto mode will become the default permission setting for users next week. Starting August 14, sessions for Pro, Max, and Team users will use it unless a user or administrator has pinned another setting.