Evidence record EV-0034

Vendor claim: users approved about 93% of permission prompts

Anthropic states that its telemetry showed users approved roughly 93% of Claude Code permission prompts, and that an operating-system sandbox reduced permission prompts by 84%.

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Evidence class: Vendor claim. A claim, not a measurement. The definitions behind it are usually unstated, and the figure often comes from a launch or funding announcement. It can show a direction, not a size. Pattern tags: approval, confirmation.

Effect, as the source reports it

  • Permission prompts approved by users. With the change: Roughly 93%. Direction: not-applicable. Size: About 93%. Sample: Not stated (telemetry).
  • Permission prompts with an OS-level sandbox. Baseline: Without the sandbox. With the change: With the sandbox. Direction: decrease. Size: 84% fewer. Sample: Not stated.
  • Auto mode classifier. With the change: Catches roughly 83% of overeager behaviours; about 0.4% of benign commands blocked; about 17% of overeager actions get through. Direction: not-applicable. Size: About 83% caught; about 0.4% false blocks. Sample: Not stated.

Agent profile

  • Note on models: Not stated for these figures.
  • Harness: Claude Code.
  • Operating system: macOS (Seatbelt) and Linux (bubblewrap) for the sandbox.

Conflicts of interest

Anthropic reports telemetry from its own product.

Source

How we contain Claude across products, Anthropic, 25 May 2026. Retrieved ; verification: verified-live.

The full primary source was fetched on 2026-10-08 and every number in this record was found in it.

Limitations

  • A vendor claim from telemetry with no published method; not independently replicated.

For designers

When nearly every approval request is accepted, people stop reading them. Ask less often, for example by sandboxing low-risk actions, so the requests that remain get attention.

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