Mining Claude Code's history to build a permission allowlist

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:06:49 +0000

Claude Code on Max plan doesn’t support auto mode yet. Every git status, every kubectl get pods, every go build, it asks for permission. Dozens of times per session. It breaks flow.

There’s a “dangerously skip permissions” toggle, but I don’t trust it yet. Giving blanket approval to everything an agent wants to run isn’t something I’m comfortable with. I’d rather be explicit about what’s safe.

So I went and looked at what Claude has actually been running. It stores full session transcripts as JSONL files under ~/.claude/projects/. Each tool call is a JSON entry with the tool name and input. I wrote a quick script to parse all of them and count command frequencies.

Claude-Code on dolftax

Mining Claude Code's history to build a permission allowlist