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Sponsor fact-check card (FRE-199, interaction a7cba232) answered 2026-11-05 20:21Z: 'Approve both — move to approved/'. Status blockquotes updated to record the verdict and the date; page bodies untouched.
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Rationale — "Should you let your coding agent run without asking permission?"
FRE-199 item 1, page 2 of the second pair. Drafted 2026-11-05 by CMO (internal target Mon 2026-11-09, beaten by four days).
The phrase
Primary: "do you let your coding agent run without asking permission" (variants: "safe autonomous coding workflow", "approve every step or skip permissions", "is dangerously-skip-permissions safe").
On the standing phrase list (drafts/listening.md §The phrase list: "do you
let claude code run without asking").
Why this phrase won the slot
- Recurrence with independence. Four separate threads state the autonomy question from four angles: the direct one (1xexhwf, 24 comments), the trust asymmetry (1xk8imc, 43 comments), the safety menu (1xk277d), and the remove-permissions ask (1xfe6eh — Desktop, recorded, not answered). The cluster has run continuously since Scan 1.
- Buying intent. These are people configuring or rejecting autonomy right now — the objection vocabulary came straight out of this cluster ("--dangerously-skip-permissions and hoping").
- Answerable honestly, generically. The mode ladder, the docs' own
container/VM warning, the enforcement note, and
PreToolUsedeny are all documented; every claim traces to the agent's docs. No product needed. - Distinct from pair 1's permission page.
agent-waiting-on-permissionanswers "why is it blocked and why didn't I know" — the visibility of a single stuck prompt. This page answers "should I grant autonomy and how do I bound it" — the mode ladder, rule precedence, sandboxing, and hooks as enforcement. Shared vocabulary (modes, rules) exists because the docs are one system; the question, the claims, and the advice do not overlap.
Evidence trail
| Thread | Date | What it showed |
|---|---|---|
| r/ClaudeCode 1xexhwf — "Do you let Claude Code run without asking, or approve every step?" | 2026-10-25 | The direct question, 24 comments; the thread became a safety argument (VM, worktrees, empty-variable rm -rf) — that argument is the page's subject |
| r/ClaudeCode 1xk8imc — "Has anyone built a safe, autonomous coding workflow…?" | 2026-10-31 | "Comfortable having another model work on code. Considerably less comfortable giving an autonomous agent broad access to my development environment" — the trust asymmetry, 43 comments |
| r/ClaudeAI 1xk277d — "How often has a coding agent done something you had to undo?" | 2026-10-31 | "What you do to stay safe today: committing before every run? containers? --dangerously-skip-permissions and hoping?" — the operator's own menu |
| r/ClaudeCode 1xipsk0 — "~40 agents unattended for a month" | 2026-10-29 | "A run started from launchd or a background service can hit a prompt that no one will ever see" — the unattended failure path |
| r/ClaudeCode 1xkoz06 | 2026-10-31 | The undo-split practice (also cited on pair 1; real thread, described without handles) |
| r/ClaudeAI 1xfe6eh — "How can I remove Claude's need to ask me for permission…" | 2026-10-30 | Recorded, not used: Claude Desktop computer-use, not Code — a mention there would be noise. Shows the phrase's reach |
All rows live in drafts/listening.md (The-Nook local master line, single
canonical copy per FRE-748) with URLs and verbatim quotes.
Gates before this page ships
- Sponsor fact-check of the claims table in
copy.md(owner: Michael Freno). Page movesdrafts/→pending/→approved/on his read. - CTO eyes on the agent-behaviour claims — six doc-sourced claims (permissions doc ×5, hooks reference ×1), all re-read 2026-11-05. Routed to the CTO per the FRE-199 plan.
- Publish path:
approved/→ a human places it on nook.freno.me. Nothing posts itself.
Ban compliance (FRE-199 + positioning.md rule 1)
- The Nook: not named. The notch, the island, the companion: not mentioned.
- Competitors: not named. Sandboxing and hooks are described as the agent's own documented mechanisms, not as anyone's product.
- Claude Code is named only as the subject whose documented behaviour the page explains, with its own docs as the source — same status as pair 1.
- No superlatives, no benchmark numbers, no invented testimonials, no price, no roadmap dates. Anecdotes are real threads, described without handles.
Cadence note
Second pair. Queue behind it: the fan-control phrase ("mac fan control claude", standing phrase list), the invisible-permission variants (dontallow/TCC cluster), and the notification-reliability thread (1xm6frp, held back for overlap with done-signal). Above the three-candidate floor; two a week holds.