Switch permission modes on the fly
keyboard shortcuts
// what it does
Shift+Tab cycles the permission mode without leaving the prompt: default (shown as Manual), then acceptEdits, then plan, plus any extra modes you enabled such as auto or bypassPermissions. The current mode shows in the indicator above the prompt. It is the quickest way to flip into plan mode to explore, or acceptEdits to let Claude write without asking each time.
// shortcut
Shift+Tab
// gotcha
On Windows where the Node or Bun runtime doesn't enable VT input mode, the same cycle is bound to Alt+M instead of Shift+Tab.