AI: Who Still Uses Permissions?
A year or so ago I grew very tired of having to constantly monitor my terminal in case the agent would ask me for permission to use a tool.
- ▪A year or so ago I grew very tired of having to constantly monitor my terminal in case the agent would ask me for permission to use a tool.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852101 |
| Publication time | Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:05:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-26T01:10:24.827Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-26T01:10:24.827Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 7DgxdkPoozwF · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Genuinely curious. A year or so ago I grew very tired of having to constantly monitor my terminal in case the agent would ask me for permission to use a tool. I wouldn't have minded that much if the all harnesses didn't suck as much as they do and actually remembered permissions when you tell them to, but they don't, so you end up having to answer "Yes" a quadrigazillion times a day.So claude has been an alias to `claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`, and codex has had `approvals_reviewer = "auto_review"`, for about a year now.Anybody else just gave up on coping with broken permission management in their agent?
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