Claude Code August 10: Auto Mode Becomes the Default on Pro, Max and Team From August 14, v2.1.226 Is the Latest CLI, and Self-Hosted Runners Enter Public Beta
- The big change this week is not a feature, it is a default.
- From August 14, 2026 auto mode is on by default for Claude Code on Pro, Max and Team, with prompt-injection screening and customizable hard deny rules shipping alongside it.
- Anthropic's own numbers explain why: auto mode caught 89% of harmful actions in a 1,053-user test against 13.6% caught by human review, because users approve 97% of permission prompts anyway.
- Five CLI releases landed in six days, v2.1.222 through v2.1.226, closing a Bash permission bypass, hardening worktree isolation, adding gateway spend-limit warnings and fixing a burst of MCP OAuth 401 errors on macOS.