Plan Mode vs. Auto-Accept: How Execution Mode Selection Becomes a Safety Primitive in Coding Agents
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Most coding agent failures happen at the approval gate. Teams pick a default execution mode (plan or auto-accept) and apply it uniformly. Plan mode wastes time on trivial edits. Auto-accept ships silent regressions when context drifts. The real control surface is treating mode selection as a per-ta…
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- 2026-10-04 10:06 · DEV Community — AI
Plan Mode vs. Auto-Accept: How Execution Mode Selection Becomes a Safety Primitive in Coding Agents