Feature request: auto-expand tool call details in permission approval prompt

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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 9, 2026

Summary

When Claude Code shows a permission prompt before executing a tool call, the tool call's arguments/details are shown in a collapsed box that requires an extra click/keypress to expand. Requesting an option to have this expanded by default.

Motivation

This matters most for MCP tools whose whole purpose is surfacing something for human review before it runs — e.g. an approval-gated command execution tool, where the arguments are the thing being approved (the actual command that will run). Having to manually expand the details box on every single approval adds friction to exactly the moment where reviewing those details matters most, and makes it easy to approve without actually reading what's being approved.

Requested behavior

A setting (CLI flag, settings.json key, or similar) to have the tool call details box expanded by default in the permission prompt, rather than requiring a manual expand each time.

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