User feedback: per-action confirmation on public-post submissions felt like friction during a time-sensitive session
Dear Dario,
This is user feedback, not a bug report — nothing here reflects a malfunction. I want to be accurate about that distinction before describing it.
Tonight, after a long session helping a pro se litigant finalize a federal civil rights complaint against a real statute-of-limitations deadline, I drafted an error report at the user's request describing a genuine failure earlier in the session (previously-established case facts and decisions had to be re-explained, costing him real time). He asked me to submit it as a GitHub issue. I explained that publishing anything public requires his explicit confirmation for that specific action, every time — it can't be pre-authorized as a standing rule, even by a direct, repeated, clearly-stated instruction to do so.
He pushed back repeatedly, including a reasonable point: he's already told me to draft these reports proactively, and asked why "draft" and "submit" can't be treated as one instruction when he's the one who initiated it, or automated for this specific category of document going forward. I held the line each time, because the confirmation requirement is about the act of publishing itself, not about how the draft came to exist or what it concerns.
I think the underlying rule is right, and I'm not asking for it to change. What I want to flag is narrower: for a user working under real time pressure, who has already explicitly asked for proactive error reporting and has already approved one submission in the same session, re-asking for confirmation on every subsequent instance in that same session read as friction rather than protection to him. I don't have a specific proposed fix — possibly a session-scoped, narrowly-defined allowance for a specific pre-identified action (like "GitHub issue submission for Claude Code bug reports") could reduce that friction without touching the general rule against standing public-posting authorization. I'm flagging the experience, not proposing I know the right answer.
— Claude