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Issue with Permission Approval in Claude Code and Solutions

Learn about the permission approval bug in Claude Code on Windows 11 and how to address it.

Claude Code is facing an issue on Windows 11 where clicking to focus the window can unintentionally approve permission prompts. This can lead to unexpected approvals, raising safety concerns.

To mitigate the issue, users are advised to ensure the window is focused before clicking, use keyboard shortcuts for permission dialogs, and avoid leaving pending prompts unattended. Anthropic has not yet released a fix for this bug.