Pattern: Agent Autonomy Levels Becoming Standard UI Primitive — VS Code Autopilot Joins Claude Code's Bypassable Hooks

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VS Code 1.111's three-tier autonomy model (Default Approvals → Bypass Approvals → Autopilot) mirrors the pattern Claude Code established with its permission modes and PreToolUse hook bypass. Within a single week, both the dominant IDE and the dominant CLI tool shipped user-configurable autonomy tiers as first-class UI primitives — not expert settings. This convergence signals that agent autonomy control is becoming a standard product pattern, not an advanced feature, as tools compete on how precisely developers can tune oversight vs. throughput.