diff --git a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SpawnScreen.kt b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SpawnScreen.kt
index 41016a0..f64f4e6 100644
--- a/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SpawnScreen.kt
+++ b/app/androidApp/src/main/kotlin/com/example/aiapp/SpawnScreen.kt
@@ -67,13 +67,11 @@ fun SpawnScreen(
     var title by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
     var model by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
     var cwd by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
-    // "bypassPermissions" rather than "auto": on a phone every ask is a
-    // round trip to a question card, and answering "allow Bash?" dozens of
-    // times per task is what this app exists to avoid. Auto already allows
-    // most of what a session does, so what the prompts left were mostly the
-    // interruption without the choice. The stricter modes stay one tap away
-    // for a session that warrants one.
-    var permissionMode by remember { mutableStateOf("bypassPermissions") }
+    // "auto" rather than "manual": on a phone every ask is a round trip to
+    // a question card, and answering "allow Bash?" dozens of times per task
+    // is what this app exists to avoid. Manual stays one tap away for a
+    // session that warrants it.
+    var permissionMode by remember { mutableStateOf("auto") }
     var busy by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
     // Only the spawn's own failure. The fetch's lives in `options`: this
     // one leaves a filled-in form worth keeping, and that one leaves