Claude Code agent: tool approval improvements

[safisa]

Improvement Description

Hi,

The Claude code agent may request tool approval multiple times within the same chat session.
Would it be more efficient to grant the user permission for the entire chat session, as well as the entire page session?

Thanks

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[safisa]

Hi @planger,
Is this an issue, or do I just need some configurations?
Thanks

[planger]

Hi @safisa,

at the moment, we don't store user decisions on tool approval requests in Theia specifically. Whenever Claude Code asks, this will surface to the UI. Of course you can still use the usual Claude Code configuration to manage tool approvals. This way Claude Code won't even ask anymore.

If we want session-scoped approvals, we could remember the tool request approval in the session and auto-approve whenever Claude Code asks. Originally, we didn't want to interfere with Claude Code's permission system and enable standing approvals on top of it in Theia.

But it'd be for sure a nice touch! So feel free to open a PR to enable that. This would have to be implemented in packages/ai-claude-code/src/browser/claude-code-chat-agent.ts (see around line 322).

Thank you very much for considering!