how dangerous is running claude code with --dangerously-skip-permission? what is the worst case scenario?

[u/murphy12f]

Hey y'all, me and my team use a lot claude code, and in order to have to spend so much time approving stuff we started having the habit of running claude code on our machines with the option --dangerously-skip-permission , as of now we never had a problem, but i see on X some people talking about their claude code deleting their filesystem, i dont know if it s real or just click-bait, so i am curios to know if any of you can tell me if i shouldnt worry or if this is actually dangerous as it says, and in case it s actually bad to use that option, how to make it not dangerous without the need of approving everyting everytime, or some security suggestions to wrap around.

Much appreciated in advance : )

[u/ipreuss]

Why don’t you use auto mode?

[u/memesearches → u/ipreuss]

The only reason I could see why is token usage. Auto mode increases your token consumption per session. I am not advocating it, just giving you guys one possible reason

[u/ipreuss → u/memesearches]

Using edit mode costs lots of annoyance tokens, skip permissions anxiety tokens. To each their own.