STOP CLICKING YES ON EVERY F*CKING CLAUDE CODE PROMPT
Anthropic built the fix right into Claude Code and most people never open it.
The idea: Claude proposes every call, your shell checks it for free, and three lists decide who gets to say yes.
Way fewer prompts and zero risky surprises, because the boring calls run alone and the dangerous ones never run at all.
You just type this in Claude Code:
/permissions
here's the split:
→ hooks fire before and after every tool call and run as plain shell, no model inside
→ a PreToolUse hook that exits 2 kills the call before a single rule is read
→ deny is checked first, ask second, allow last
→ allow covers the boring stuff, so you stop clicking yes 40 times a session
the hooks earn their keep at three moments:
→ before a call, block edits to .env, secrets/ and migrations/
→ after an edit, run the formatter on the file Claude touched
→ before Claude says done, run the test suite
Hooks check. Rules sort. You sign off.
The AI coworker crowd in Slack figured out the same thing. A free script checks first, the agent only wakes on a real change, and every customer email waits for a tap. In my Viktor breakdown that one move took 4 jobs from 211,000 credits a month to 35,800.
the full tree
> Claude runs the session and proposes every tool call
> PreToolUse blocks protected paths with exit 2
> deny rules catch rm -rf, secrets and payments first
> ask rules hold git push and installs for your tap
> allow rules run reads, greps and tests with no prompt
> a Stop hook runs the suite before anything is called done
paste the tree and this prompt into Claude Code ↓
"Rebuild my Claude Code setup around this tree:
1. Write .claude/settings.json with deny rules for rm -rf, .env and anything with credentials, ask rules for git push and package installs, and allow rules for reads, greps and my test command.
2. Add a PreToolUse hook that exits 2 on writes to .env, secrets/ and migrations/.
3. Add a PostToolUse hook that formats every file you edit.
4. Add a Stop hook that runs the tests and keeps you working if they fail.
Show me every change as a diff first. No edits until I say go."
↳ https://t.co/Ad99ue3zDE
your next session asks you 3 times instead of 40. try it once and you won't go back.
Holy sh*t. Swap an AI agent's hidden thoughts with another problem's and its math score drops from 84.6 to 44.8
Here's how the test works:
→ take an agent that thinks in hidden vectors
→ swap its thoughts with ones from a different problem
→ score the answer on MATH500
→ compare with its own thoughts: 84.6 vs 44.8
Noise twice as strong as the thought leaves 66.4
The meaning matters more than the noise
Stanford and Together AI ran it at two model sizes
At 14B it goes from 88.2 to 48.6
Steal the test for your own agent
Take the plan from task A, paste it into task B and see how much worse B gets
It tells you if your agent really uses its plan
holy f*ck, SpaceXAI just published 56 jobs for Grok Bot, and each one is a one-click install
the use cases page splits them by department:
sales
marketing
support
recruiting
finance
product
engineering
life admin
every one of these is also a service someone pays a person for
open the page, pick a job, hit add
how to use it:
1. go through all 56
2. stop on the job you hate doing most
3. add that one first
save this and read the article below to make money with grok bot ↓