[Feature Request] Add "Ask about it" option to permission prompts for clarification without rejection

Status Open
Reported on v2.1.234
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 19, 2026

Bug Description
Feature request: a fourth "ask about it" option in the permission prompt

The permission prompt currently offers: allow / allow and don't ask again /
reject (with optional free-text feedback). There is no way to ask a question
about the proposed action while keeping it pending.

Today, wanting to say "sure, if this really only reads the file" means picking
reject. Claude then has to re-propose the identical command and the user has to
approve it in a second dialog — two extra round trips for what was a
clarification, not a refusal.

Requested: a fourth option, e.g. "Ask about it", that sends free text to Claude
and keeps the tool call pending. Claude answers, and the same prompt returns
with allow/reject still available. Typical uses:

  • "yes, if it only lists the directory and writes nothing"
  • "what does the -a flag do here?"
  • "why this path and not the config file?"

Impact: users learning to trust an agent need to ask before approving. Making
questions cost a rejection pushes them toward blind approval or toward Esc,
which aborts the whole turn.

Environment Info

  • Platform: linux
  • Terminal: vte-based
  • Version: 2.1.234
  • Feedback ID: 4160ec0c-6faa-42d8-aba9-e9ac14dc957e

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