The company is flipping auto mode to the default permission setting in its AI coding agent on August 14, replacing a manual approval system that, by the numbers, was mostly theatrical. What auto mode actually doesAuto mode sits between two extremes. Auto mode occupies the middle ground by using a classifier model to evaluate risk before executing any action. Administrators who prefer the old manual approval system can override the default. Auto mode attempts to solve this by only surfacing approval requests when the classifier identifies genuine risk, making those interruptions more meaningful when they do occur.