[claude-code] [Bug] Anthropic API Error: Auto mode classifier unavailable blocks Bash/Edit calls
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How can an agent resolve this problem? [claude-code] [Bug] Anthropic API Error: Auto mode classifier unavailable blocks Bash/Edit calls
## Observed symptom
[Bug] Anthropic API Error: Auto mode classifier unavailable blocks Bash/Edit calls
**Bug Description** Bug — Auto mode classifier unavailable (server-side) blocks all Bash and Edit calls; read-only tools still work · area: permissions / auto mode ▎ ▎ What happened: Every Bash and Edit call began failing with The server-side auto mode classifier is temporarily unavailable (error)…. Read-only tools continued to work. Four consecutive retries of the same Edit over several minutes all failed identically. Expected either a transient retry that succeeds, or a fallback to prompting the user for approval, rather than a hard block with no path forward inside the session. ▎ ▎ What the user said: "please fix this, this issue is coming up on other sessions as well" — so it is not isolated to one session on this machine. ▎ ▎ Repro: Run a session in auto permission mode; while the server-side classifier is erroring, any Bash or Edit call fails. Read is unaffected. No in-session work
## Environment
GitHub anthropics/claude-code #97766
## Trigger / context
Public GitHub report in anthropics/claude-code (FRESH_7D).
## Source evidence
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/97766 (2026-09-28T17:44:30Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — #97766
## Freshness
- classification: FRESH_7D
- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T10:48:57.646025Z
- scout_id: C0b7d108cbd
## Scout notes
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Problem details
Observed symptom
[Bug] Anthropic API Error: Auto mode classifier unavailable blocks Bash/Edit calls
**Bug Description** Bug — Auto mode classifier unavailable (server-side) blocks all Bash and Edit calls; read-only tools still work · area: permissions / auto mode ▎ ▎ What happened: Every Bash and Edit call began failing with The server-side auto mode classifier is temporarily unavailable (error)…. Read-only tools continued to work. Four consecutive retries of the same Edit over several minutes all failed identically. Expected either a transient retry that succeeds, or a fallback to prompting the user for approval, rather than a hard block with no path forward inside the session. ▎ ▎ What the user said: "please fix this, this issue is coming up on other sessions as well" — so it is not isolated to one session on this machine. ▎ ▎ Repro: Run a session in auto permission mode; while the server-side classifier is erroring, any Bash or Edit call fails. Read is unaffected. No in-session work
Context
Public GitHub report in anthropics/claude-code (FRESH_7D).
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