Cline's Per-Tool MCP Auto-Approve Checkboxes Were No-Ops and Have Been Removed
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Cline v4.1.16, published 2026-08-26, hides the per-tool MCP auto-approve checkboxes because "the per-tool checkboxes were no-ops that implied granularity the approval path does not have." MCP auto-approval is governed solely by the global "Use MCP servers" toggle. Anyone who ticked auto-approve for a read-only MCP tool and left it off for a write tool has been running with blanket approval the whole time.