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Agentic Coding Sessions Stall on Unattended Permission Prompts

Developers running long agentic coding sessions (e.g. Claude Code) must stay near the keyboard because the tool halts on a permission prompt until manually approved, even for routine, reversible actions. This forces constant babysitting instead of walking away and returning only when a genuinely irreversible action needs a human decision.

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