Fix Claude Code Chats in Supervised Mode (rather than Full Access Mode)

[tamaro-skaljic]

What Changed

Fixes #1818

Why

When trying to use the Claude Code with Supervised rather than Full access mode, the chat rightaway fails with the error described in the issue.

The fix is to set the correct (default) permission mode when changing from Full access to Supervised.

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Medium Risk
Changes how Claude SDK sessions are started by always sending an explicit permissionMode, which affects tool/file access behavior across runtime modes. Risk is moderate because incorrect mapping could unintentionally over- or under-restrict permissions at runtime.

Overview
Fixes supervised (runtimeMode: "approval-required") Claude sessions by mapping them to permissionMode: "default" instead of leaving permissionMode unset.

ClaudeAdapter now always includes permissionMode in the SDK query options (still using bypassPermissions for full-access and acceptEdits for auto-accept), and tests are updated to assert the new supervised-mode behavior.

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Note

Fix Claude Code chats in supervised mode by passing permissionMode: "default" for approval-required sessions

Sessions started with runtimeMode: "approval-required" were not passing a permissionMode to the underlying query options, causing them to behave incorrectly. ClaudeAdapter.ts now maps "approval-required" to permissionMode: "default" and always includes permissionMode in query options for all runtime modes.

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[Soif2Sang]

I've ran into the same issue and had a similar fix; I would like to mention that after switching from a full permission that fails to a supervised in the same chat fails because it says the conversation is not found

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved

A clear bug fix that adds a missing mapping for the 'approval-required' runtime mode to the 'default' permission mode. The change is small, well-typed, and accompanied by a test update confirming the intended behavior.

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