[FEATURE] directly get into plan mode with --dangerously-skip-permissions

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It still occurs sometime, with the latest version

Concur. I start claude with this bash function:

CLAUDE() (
  export CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_TERMINAL_TITLE=1
  claude \
    --permission-mode=plan \
    --dangerously-skip-permissions \
    --model=opusplan \
    "$@"
)

I need bypass permissions mode but always want to start in plan mode.
Currently, this counter-intuitively starts me in bypass permissions mode.

$ claude --version
2.0.76 (Claude Code)

Adding another voice to this. I desperately want this feature. I want skip permissions to be an option in the cycle but I want to always start in plan mode (or whatever other mode I set).

Adding some additional context to this issue:

When using --permission-mode plan --dangerously-skip-permissions together, the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag causes Claude to ignore the permission mode entirely.

The alternative flag --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions does respect the permission mode, but it prompts the user to trust the directory when launched. This is tedious and likely not what users intend when passing that flag.

This is also a UX regression - previously, passing --permission-mode plan --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions together would drop the user directly into interactive plan mode without prompting.

I would argue this isn't a feature request, but a bug report

Filed a proper bug report at #17544 since this issue is mislabeled as a feature request/enhancement.

This is still an issue.

I use this workaround:

claude --dangerously-skip-permissions "/plan"

This works for me.

claude --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions --permission-mode plan

As others have stated, it does prompt you to trust the directory; however, you only have to do that once per project. This is no big deal if you're working a lot in the same project, but I can see how it might get tedious for other use cases. I wrote an article about it if anyone is interested.

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