Why you cannot pre-approve a whole turn

There is no mechanism to approve an entire turn in advance, only individual tool calls one at a time, or a whole tool going forward through always or auto-approve.

This is a deliberate design choice: approving one specific write does not extend implicit trust to whatever the model decides to do next in the same turn. Each action that could change your system earns its own review, every time.

The closest thing to a broader approval is plan mode, which lets you review an entire proposed sequence of actions at once before any of them run, rather than skipping review of any individual one.

This holds even for a request that describes its own scope explicitly upfront, "go ahead and fix all the failing tests, however many edits that takes" still stops at the first write or edit for approval, since the prompt describing intent is not the same thing as approving the specific resulting action.

The one exception in spirit rather than mechanism is auto-approve, covered in Setting auto-approve ahead of time: it is still an approval of a specific tool, made explicitly by you in advance, not an approval of a turn as a whole.