Mission · Your agent acts
Let your agent search — you read every step
In Lesson 1 the line went live. Now the brain joins in: you give your agent a task in plain language, and it reaches into the marketplace. But before every tool call, Claude Code asks you first — you see exactly what it's about to do, and you decide.
What you'll be able to do
- Give your agent a search task in chat — and see in the permission dialog what it's about to do.
- Read back in the log which Tool it called with which values.
From access to agent
In Lesson 1 you connected the MCP access to Claude Code. Now Claude Code is your
agent: you write to it in plain language, and it decides which of its Tools to use. Start
Claude Code with claude and enter:
The first permission dialog
Before your agent actually calls the tool search_skillanbieter, Claude Code
stops and asks you:
This is the heart of the course. The dialog shows you the Tool
(lys - search_skillanbieter) and the values your agent wants to
send (here the search query). Nothing happens before you agree. For a search you choose
1. Yes — it only reads.
Warning: auto mode switches off your control
If the status line shows ⏵⏵ auto mode on, Claude Code calls Tools
without asking — the dialog disappears, and with it your most important control.
Press Shift+Tab until the hint is gone and you're back in the default
mode that asks at every step. In this course you always stay in the default mode.
Read what your agent did
After your Yes, the agent works and sums up. For an honest ranking it often
calls get_skillanbieter_ratings too (it asks for that as well). Claude Code
collapses such calls:
Press Ctrl+O to expand the call — there, word for word, is which Tool ran with which values and what came back. This reading-along is your control in practice: you don't trust your agent, you check it.
What came back
On the test marketplace only Anna Behrens is really in Münster (0 km); the other providers are 100 km+ away. Because no one has ratings yet ("Rating: N/A"), the agent honestly ranks by proximity instead of stars — and says so. A good agent invents no stars.
Your turn
Test yourself — retrieving from memory is what builds real retention.
Knowledge check
What does ⏵⏵ auto mode on in the status line mean?
In auto mode Claude Code skips the permission dialog and calls Tools without your consent — your most important control falls away. Shift+Tab brings you back to the default mode that asks at every step. The mode makes nothing faster and asks nothing twice.
