Claude Code 2.1.283 starts sessions in auto mode by default on third-party providers or with telemetry off
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Interactive sessions on third-party providers, or with telemetry disabled, now begin in auto mode when no permission mode is configured. An explicit permissions.defaultMode still overrides this. It follows 2.1.282 moving telemetry-off users to the server-side auto-mode classifier. Teams that relied on the old default of prompting before tool calls should pin defaultMode in managed settings before they update.