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Claude Code Plan Mode: How It Actually Gates Your Edits (2026)
Plan mode is not a read-only state. It is a rule at step 4 of a six-step permission evaluation, which is why allow rules stop applying while you plan and why a session with bypass permissions can edit anyway. The CLI keystrokes, the settings, the Agent SDK equivalent, and a plan-then-execute pipeline in Python and TypeScript. August 2026.
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