How to Skip All Claude Code Permission Prompts on VS Code

by Rian

Continuing on from yesterday’s Claude Code piece, Anthropic provides an official extension for VS Code. In it, the command-line flags from yesterday do not parse as expected. Instead, the controls you’d want live in the extension’s own GUI settings page.

The settings aren’t in the Claude Code extension’s own interface, but in VS Code’s. Under Settings > Extensions > Claude Code, toggle “Allow Dangerously Skip Permissions”. That only makes the mode available — sessions still launch normally, and you switch in via the mode toggle. The prompt box highlights once you’re in it. To launch every new session already in bypass mode, set “Initial Permission Mode” to “bypassPermissions”.

To reiterate on what happened with Fable and the potential outcome of the model’s indefinite suspension, I do not think this is a good track record for subscription-based LLM. Even on the official specs, it drained plan limits at twice the rate of Opus, and the promotional run on Pro and Max was only two weeks, set to revert to API rates. The suspension, however, pulled it on the 12th and took the limelight. Anthropic never planned to offer this affordably. For a model both the company and the government touted as too dangerous to release unrestricted, the capability would be wanted at any price regardless. If anything, the government’s action is simply compounding the interest toward proliferation of local instance of LLM, uncontrollable “weaponization” of a new technology.