How to stop Claude Code from asking for confirmation mid-task

You ask Claude to do a five-step task. It completes step one, then asks: "Should I proceed with step two?" You say yes. Step two done. "Shall I now run the tests?" You say yes. This continues until you've sent five confirmation messages for a task you could have done yourself in the time it took to respond. Claude pauses in agentic contexts because it's designed to stop before actions that might be consequential or hard to reverse. That caution makes sense at the right moments. The problem is when it applies to routine progress through a task you've already scoped out. The instruction that stops it Do not ask for permission between steps of a task. If you have what you need, complete the task end-to-end. Ask before starting if something is unclear. Do not ask for confirmation mid-execution. Exception: stop and ask if you're about to do something destructive that wasn't in the original scope. The exception is doing real work. You want Claude to interrupt for genuinely unexpected destruc