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