Auto mode seems overtuned for caution around deployment and production, which is a regression from how useful Claude Code was for operations around June/July
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Helped: Permission rules are important to workflows.
Got in the way: Auto mode refuses safe commands like CI/CD triggers.
I and other colleagues have been struggling with auto mode refusing perfectly safe commands in our environment, so we frequently find ourselves switching to the other modes to handhold Claude Code into perfectly safe things like triggering deterministic and guardrailed CI/CD pipelines or read-only queries of production data. Auto mode seems overtuned for caution around deployment and production, which is a regression from how useful Claude Code was for operations around June/July. Until that's improved, permission rules are incredibly important to our workflows.