Auto-mode safety classifier intermittently unavailable for Write/Bash/Edit, blocking work for extended periods

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Activity 1 comment · opened Sep 2, 2026

During a long working session, the auto-mode permission classifier repeatedly returned "claude-sonnet-5 is temporarily unavailable, so auto mode cannot determine the safety of Write/Bash/Edit right now" for basic file-write and shell actions. This happened in clusters: one stretch of ~5 consecutive failures across Write, Bash, and Edit over roughly 15 minutes, requiring multiple manual retries (including a 10-minute wait) before the classifier recovered on its own. No content in the blocked commands was unusual (writing a plain Python script, editing a string in a file) -- the failures appear to be classifier-service-side unavailability, not a legitimate safety determination. This significantly disrupted a debugging workflow. Requesting investigation into the classifier service's reliability/uptime, and ideally a faster fallback or retry behavior instead of a hard block when the classifier itself is down.

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