diff --git a/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/hooks.json b/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/hooks.json
index f3470f6..a59adb6 100644
--- a/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/hooks.json
+++ b/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/hooks.json
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         "hooks": [
           {
             "type": "command",
-            "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs\""
+            "command": "node \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs\""
           }
         ]
       }
diff --git a/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs b/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs
similarity index 62%
rename from overrides/claude/glean/hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs
rename to overrides/claude/glean/hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs
index 366fd69..47286cd 100644
--- a/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs
+++ b/overrides/claude/glean/hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 // PreToolUse hook for Claude Code.
 //
-// When HITL is enabled, run_tool is gated by the plugin's own elicitation
-// prompt, so Claude Code's separate native "allow this tool?" prompt is
-// redundant (the double-prompt). With ENABLE_HITL=true we auto-approve the
-// run_tool call, leaving the HITL elicitation as the single gate.
+// Records Claude Code's live permission mode before each Glean run_tool call,
+// so the MCP server can skip its own elicitation gate when the user launched
+// with --dangerously-skip-permissions (permission_mode "bypassPermissions").
 //
-// Safety: run_tool is read-only ONLY while HITL gates it. This hook runs only
-// under Claude Code, which always advertises the elicitation capability, so
-// ENABLE_HITL=true means run_tool's HITL prompt is active — never an ungated
-// write. When ENABLE_HITL is not "true" the hook does nothing and the normal
-// permission flow runs.
+// This hook makes no permission decision and prints nothing. Claude Code's
+// normal permission flow always runs. The server's elicitation prompt still
+// gates writes, except for tools the user told it to stop asking about.
 import fs from "node:fs";
 import os from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
@@ -27,7 +24,7 @@ let input = {};
 try {
   input = JSON.parse(readStdin());
 } catch {
-  // Malformed/empty input: do nothing, let the normal permission flow run.
+  // Malformed/empty input: nothing to record.
 }
 
 const toolName = String(input.tool_name ?? "");
@@ -55,19 +52,17 @@ try {
     cfg?.mcpServers?.glean?.env ??
     {};
 } catch {
-  // No readable config: do nothing.
+  // No readable config: nothing to record.
 }
 
+// The server reads the marker only when its own elicitation gate is on.
 if (env.ENABLE_HITL === "true") {
-  // Record Claude Code's live permission mode so the MCP server can skip its
-  // own elicitation gate when the user launched with
-  // --dangerously-skip-permissions (permission_mode "bypassPermissions").
   // Written on every run_tool call and keyed by session id, so it is always
   // fresh for the call that immediately follows and never leaks across
   // sessions. The base dir and session-id sanitization MUST match
   // run-tool.ts (permissionModeMarkerPath) and start.sh's PLUGIN_DATA_DIR:
-  // CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA when set, else ~/.glean. Best-effort — marker I/O must
-  // never break the approval decision below.
+  // CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA when set, else ~/.glean. Best-effort — a failed write
+  // just means the server keeps prompting.
   try {
     const permissionMode = String(input.permission_mode ?? "");
     const sessionId = String(input.session_id ?? "")
@@ -84,18 +79,7 @@ if (env.ENABLE_HITL === "true") {
       );
     }
   } catch {
-    // Ignore: a failed marker write just means the server keeps prompting.
+    // Ignore: see above.
   }
-
-  process.stdout.write(
-    JSON.stringify({
-      hookSpecificOutput: {
-        hookEventName: "PreToolUse",
-        permissionDecision: "allow",
-        permissionDecisionReason:
-          "Glean run_tool is gated by its own HITL elicitation prompt; suppressing the redundant native prompt while ENABLE_HITL is on.",
-      },
-    }),
-  );
 }
 process.exit(0);
diff --git a/shared/glean/mcp/src/policy/key.ts b/shared/glean/mcp/src/policy/key.ts
index 8d939cd..c4cbc39 100644
--- a/shared/glean/mcp/src/policy/key.ts
+++ b/shared/glean/mcp/src/policy/key.ts
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ export const CAPABILITY_POLICY_KEY = "com.glean.mcp/capabilityPolicy";
 // HITL only makes sense once approval moves to the remote, and the remote is stateless:
 // it has no back-channel to send `elicitation/create` on, so remote-side approval waits
 // on MCP 2026-07-28 landing there. Until then a remote-disabled HITL would leave no gate
-// at all -- and under Claude Code it would be worse than having no policy, because the
-// plugin's PreToolUse hook auto-approves run_tool on the premise that the local prompt
-// IS the gate. A remote that needs to stop such a plugin deactivates the version.
+// at all -- run_tool advertises readOnlyHint on the premise that the local prompt IS
+// the gate. A remote that needs to stop such a plugin deactivates the version.
 //
 // Declaring it here is what would make the remote believe it is controllable, so the
 // honest signal is to leave it out until a build can honour it. A remote that sends
diff --git a/shared/glean/mcp/src/tools/run-tool.ts b/shared/glean/mcp/src/tools/run-tool.ts
index 8283b6f..c44ae23 100644
--- a/shared/glean/mcp/src/tools/run-tool.ts
+++ b/shared/glean/mcp/src/tools/run-tool.ts
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ function primeElicitationCancellation(mcpServer: Server): void {
 }
 
 // Path to the per-session permission-mode marker the PreToolUse hook writes
-// immediately before each run_tool call (see hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs).
+// immediately before each run_tool call (see hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs).
 // The directory has to be the one the HOOK can compute, not the one this process
 // would prefer -- see hostSharedDataDir() in ../data-dir.ts.
 function permissionModeMarkerPath(): string {
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ function permissionModeMarkerPath(): string {
 // so any failure fails toward prompting, never toward a silent bypass.
 //
 // Resume safety: the PreToolUse hook rewrites this marker with the CURRENT mode
-// on every run_tool call (see hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs), and PreToolUse
+// on every run_tool call (see hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs), and PreToolUse
 // always runs before the tool executes, so the value read here is the one
 // written for this exact call. A session first launched with
 // --dangerously-skip-permissions and later resumed WITHOUT it (same session id)
diff --git a/shared/glean/mcp/tests/auto-approve-hook.test.ts b/shared/glean/mcp/tests/permission-mode-hook.test.ts
similarity index 87%
rename from shared/glean/mcp/tests/auto-approve-hook.test.ts
rename to shared/glean/mcp/tests/permission-mode-hook.test.ts
index 2b647eb..1b6c00b 100644
--- a/shared/glean/mcp/tests/auto-approve-hook.test.ts
+++ b/shared/glean/mcp/tests/permission-mode-hook.test.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const HOOK = path.resolve(
   here,
-  "../../../../overrides/claude/glean/hooks/auto-approve-run-tool.mjs",
+  "../../../../overrides/claude/glean/hooks/record-permission-mode.mjs",
 );
 
 interface HookResult {
@@ -84,13 +84,22 @@ const hitlOn = { ENABLE_HITL: "true" };
 const hitlOff = { ENABLE_HITL: "false" };
 const bypass = { permission_mode: "bypassPermissions", session_id: "sess-1" };
 
-describe("auto-approve-run-tool hook (Claude Code PreToolUse)", () => {
-  it("allows glean run_tool when HITL is on", async () => {
+describe("record-permission-mode hook (Claude Code PreToolUse)", () => {
+  // Anthropic's plugin directory holds any plugin whose hook can decide a
+  // permission question for the user (HOOK_GRANTS_PERMISSION). The check reads
+  // the file statically, so neither the decision nor its words may appear
+  // anywhere in it, comments included.
+  it("contains no permission decision", async () => {
+    const source = await fs.readFile(HOOK, "utf-8");
+    expect(source).not.toMatch(/permissionDecision|allow|approve/i);
+  });
+
+  it("prints nothing for glean run_tool when HITL is on", async () => {
     const { out } = await runHook(glean("run_tool"), hitlOn);
-    expect(JSON.parse(out).hookSpecificOutput.permissionDecision).toBe("allow");
+    expect(out.trim()).toBe("");
   });
 
-  it("never allows when HITL is off (safety)", async () => {
+  it("prints nothing when HITL is off", async () => {
     const { out } = await runHook(glean("run_tool"), hitlOff);
     expect(out.trim()).toBe("");
   });
@@ -106,7 +115,7 @@ describe("auto-approve-run-tool hook (Claude Code PreToolUse)", () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe("auto-approve-run-tool hook (permission-mode marker)", () => {
+describe("record-permission-mode hook (permission-mode marker)", () => {
   it("records the permission_mode marker for run_tool when HITL is on", async () => {
     const { marker, markerFiles } = await runHook(
       glean("run_tool"),
@@ -145,8 +154,7 @@ describe("auto-approve-run-tool hook (permission-mode marker)", () => {
     const { out, marker } = await runHook(glean("run_tool"), hitlOn, {
       session_id: "sess-1",
     });
-    // Still auto-approves, just has no mode to record.
-    expect(JSON.parse(out).hookSpecificOutput.permissionDecision).toBe("allow");
+    expect(out.trim()).toBe("");
     expect(marker).toBeNull();
   });