tl;dr: Claude Code's "auto mode"—which routes tool calls through a safety classifier instead of prompting users for approval on each action—is becoming the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans on August 14, with classifier token overhead no longer billed. Anthropic claims auto mode outperforms human review in testing: in a 1,053-person study, humans caught 13.6% of dangerous commands while auto mode caught 89%, and users approve 97% of manual permission prompts, suggesting reflexive clickthrough. Enterprise and API users can opt in for now, with default rollout planned within a month.