diff --git a/.changes/harness-ops/headless-d2-permission-pins-fdba65a7.md b/.changes/harness-ops/headless-d2-permission-pins-fdba65a7.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc5cb659c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/harness-ops/headless-d2-permission-pins-fdba65a7.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+bump: patch
+---
+
+### Fixed
+
+- The `consume-restarts print-schedule` command prints `--permission-mode auto`, plus `--permission-prompts none` when the CLI is 2.1.259 or later, on every scheduled `claude -p` line, so the reader no longer inherits the user's `defaultMode`. Regenerate an existing schedule to pick this up.
diff --git a/.github/actions/resolve-config/callers.test.mjs b/.github/actions/resolve-config/callers.test.mjs
index 57cca294b1..1fe6bba76c 100644
--- a/.github/actions/resolve-config/callers.test.mjs
+++ b/.github/actions/resolve-config/callers.test.mjs
@@ -1602,19 +1602,21 @@ const PERMISSION_PROMPTS_NONE_LAUNCHERS = new Set([
   "d02b8697e092705153f0996549b05f95a446bb52",
 ]);
 
-test("pr-run-activity-read.yml: every run-claude-cli pin is a launcher checked to pass --permission-prompts none", () => {
-  const pins = [];
-  for (const [id, job] of Object.entries(workflow("pr-run-activity-read.yml").jobs ?? {})) {
-    for (const step of job.steps ?? []) {
-      const uses = String(step.uses ?? "");
-      if (!uses.includes("/run-claude-cli@")) continue;
-      const sha = uses.slice(uses.indexOf("@") + 1);
-      pins.push(sha);
-      assert.match(sha, /^[0-9a-f]{40}$/, `${id} ${step.id} pins a full SHA`);
-      assert.ok(PERMISSION_PROMPTS_NONE_LAUNCHERS.has(sha), `${id} ${step.id}: ${sha} is not checked to pass --permission-prompts none`);
+test("every run-claude-cli step pin in this repo's workflows is a launcher checked to pass --permission-prompts none", () => {
+  const files = new Set();
+  for (const file of workflowFiles()) {
+    for (const [id, job] of Object.entries(workflow(file).jobs ?? {})) {
+      for (const step of job.steps ?? []) {
+        const uses = String(step.uses ?? "");
+        if (!uses.includes("/run-claude-cli@")) continue;
+        const sha = uses.slice(uses.indexOf("@") + 1);
+        files.add(file);
+        assert.match(sha, /^[0-9a-f]{40}$/, `${file} ${id} ${step.id} pins a full SHA`);
+        assert.ok(PERMISSION_PROMPTS_NONE_LAUNCHERS.has(sha), `${file} ${id} ${step.id}: ${sha} is not checked to pass --permission-prompts none`);
+      }
     }
   }
-  assert.ok(pins.length >= 2, pins.join(", "));
+  for (const file of ["pr-run-activity-read.yml", "pr-verify.yml", "pr-unblock.yml"]) assert.ok(files.has(file), [...files].join(", "));
 });
 
 // Each launcher leg is followed by a check that the CLI's init message
diff --git a/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/context/restart-consumer.md b/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/context/restart-consumer.md
index 4734f20ab1..ff0a2189d9 100644
--- a/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/context/restart-consumer.md
+++ b/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/context/restart-consumer.md
@@ -133,7 +133,11 @@ from cmd.exe.
 
 Two scheduled forms, different trade-offs:
 
-- **Headless skill form**: `claude -p "/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run"`.
+- **Headless skill form**: `claude -p "/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run"
+  --permission-mode auto --permission-prompts none`. The mode is stated, never
+  inherited from user settings; `--permission-prompts none` is printed only when
+  the CLI that runs `print-schedule` accepts it, so regenerate the schedule after
+  upgrading from an older CLI.
   Survives plugin updates (the skill resolves `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` freshly at
   each invocation, so the task never embeds a plugin cache path that rots), but
   each tick is a paid model turn. Bound the spend: `claude` supports `--model`
diff --git a/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.sh b/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.sh
index 80100a8f9d..7b48489c71 100755
--- a/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.sh
+++ b/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.sh
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ CONSUMER_MARKER="harness-ops:restart-consumer"
 CONSUMER_LANE="restart-consumer"
 SENTINEL_PREFIX="<!-- harness-ops:lane-telemetry marker="
 TASK_NAME="HarnessOps Lane Restart Consumer"
+# Below this Claude Code version --permission-prompts is an unknown option;
+# the same floor as lane-launcher.sh. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/headless
+PERMISSION_PROMPTS_MIN_VERSION="2.1.259"
 
 err() { printf 'ERROR: %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
 warn() { printf 'WARN: %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
@@ -1286,7 +1289,7 @@ print_report_header() {
 
 # --- print-schedule -----------------------------------------------------------
 action_print_schedule() {
-  local self claude_bin run_cmd win_repo win_claude data_dir opts opts_sq
+  local self claude_bin run_cmd win_repo win_claude data_dir opts opts_sq perm_flags cli_ver
   self="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
   # Behavior-affecting options must survive into every emitted command. This
   # action runs BEFORE resolve_config/resolve_target_repo, so these hold exactly
@@ -1318,7 +1321,20 @@ action_print_schedule() {
   # `run` is load-bearing: the script's default action is the read-only
   # `check`, so a schedule registered without `run` would report forever and
   # never relaunch anything.
-  run_cmd="claude -p \"/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}\" --output-format text"
+  # The permission posture is stated in the command, as lane-launcher.sh's
+  # build_lane_flags states it, not inherited from whatever defaultMode the
+  # user's settings carry: explicit auto, never bypassPermissions, plus
+  # --permission-prompts none from the CLI version that accepts it (older
+  # CLIs reject it; an unreadable version omits it, as the launcher does).
+  perm_flags="--permission-mode auto"
+  cli_ver="$("$claude_bin" --version 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\r' | grep -oE '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -1)" || cli_ver=""
+  if [[ -n "$cli_ver" ]] && awk -v a="$cli_ver" -v b="$PERMISSION_PROMPTS_MIN_VERSION" 'BEGIN {
+    split(a, x, "."); split(b, y, ".")
+    for (i = 1; i <= 3; i++) { if (x[i] + 0 != y[i] + 0) exit !(x[i] + 0 > y[i] + 0) }
+  }'; then
+    perm_flags+=" --permission-prompts none"
+  fi
+  run_cmd="claude -p \"/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}\" ${perm_flags} --output-format text"
 
   cat <<EOF
 Registering the schedule is an OPERATOR action — this script never performs it.
@@ -1339,7 +1355,7 @@ Reader: $run_cmd
   cmd.exe syntax). NOT from Git Bash: MSYS path conversion rewrites /-style
   options — 'schtasks /Query' becomes an invalid 'C:/Program Files/Git/Query'.
 
-schtasks /Create /TN "$TASK_NAME" /SC MINUTE /MO ${INTERVAL_MINUTES} /F /RU "%USERNAME%" /IT /RL LIMITED /TR "cmd /c cd /d \"$win_repo\" && \"$win_claude\" -p \"/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}\" --output-format text"
+schtasks /Create /TN "$TASK_NAME" /SC MINUTE /MO ${INTERVAL_MINUTES} /F /RU "%USERNAME%" /IT /RL LIMITED /TR "cmd /c cd /d \"$win_repo\" && \"$win_claude\" -p \"/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}\" ${perm_flags} --output-format text"
 
   /IT runs the task only while that user is logged on, so the CLI reads the
   credentials already in the user profile: no stored password, no elevation.
@@ -1347,7 +1363,7 @@ schtasks /Create /TN "$TASK_NAME" /SC MINUTE /MO ${INTERVAL_MINUTES} /F /RU "%US
 
   Cold start after a reboot — add a logon trigger alongside the poll:
 
-schtasks /Create /TN "$TASK_NAME (logon)" /SC ONLOGON /F /RU "%USERNAME%" /IT /RL LIMITED /TR "cmd /c cd /d \"$win_repo\" && \"$win_claude\" -p \"/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}\" --output-format text"
+schtasks /Create /TN "$TASK_NAME (logon)" /SC ONLOGON /F /RU "%USERNAME%" /IT /RL LIMITED /TR "cmd /c cd /d \"$win_repo\" && \"$win_claude\" -p \"/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}\" ${perm_flags} --output-format text"
 
   Remove both (also from cmd.exe):
 
@@ -1358,7 +1374,7 @@ schtasks /Delete /TN "$TASK_NAME (logon)" /F
 
   Same command on the same interval. cron form:
 
-*/${INTERVAL_MINUTES} * * * * cd '$REPO' && '$claude_bin' -p '/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}' --output-format text
+*/${INTERVAL_MINUTES} * * * * cd '$REPO' && '$claude_bin' -p '/harness-ops:lanes consume-restarts run${opts}' ${perm_flags} --output-format text
 
 == Offline variant (no model turn) ==
 
diff --git a/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.test.sh b/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.test.sh
index 48596e0164..435e67b093 100755
--- a/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.test.sh
+++ b/plugins/harness-ops/skills/lanes/scripts/restart-consumer.test.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 #   - the morning-brief issue-discovery literals are byte-identical in both files
 #   - print-schedule emits schtasks create + delete lines and mutates nothing,
 #     and substitutes a passed --data-dir into the offline form
+#   - every scheduled `claude -p` passes --permission-mode auto, and
+#     --permission-prompts none only from the CLI version that accepts it
 #   - argument validation exit codes
 #
 # PATH-stubs `claude` and `gh`, and injects the session list, the telemetry, and
@@ -65,6 +67,10 @@ STUBS="$TMP/stubs"
 mkdir -p "$STUBS"
 cat >"$STUBS/claude" <<'SH'
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
+if [[ "${1:-}" == --version ]]; then
+  [[ -n "${CLAUDE_STUB_VERSION:-}" ]] && echo "$CLAUDE_STUB_VERSION (Claude Code)"
+  exit 0
+fi
 echo '[]'
 SH
 # The gh stub is loud-by-default: reaching it means a test forgot an injection
@@ -403,6 +409,26 @@ assert_not_contains "the scheduled command never defaults to read-only check" "$
 assert_contains "print-schedule offers the non-Windows form" "$OUT" "cron form"
 assert_contains "print-schedule states that registering is the operator's" "$OUT" "OPERATOR action"
 
+# The unattended reader states its permission posture rather than inheriting
+# the user's defaultMode; --permission-prompts none only where the CLI takes it.
+OUT="$(CLAUDE_STUB_VERSION=2.1.259 bash "$SCRIPT" print-schedule --repo "$REPO" 2>&1)"
+assert_eq "every scheduled claude -p passes explicit auto and no prompts" "4" \
+  "$(grep -c -- 'run.\{0,2\} --permission-mode auto --permission-prompts none --output-format text' <<<"$OUT")"
+for v in 2.2.0 10.0.0; do
+  OUT="$(CLAUDE_STUB_VERSION=$v bash "$SCRIPT" print-schedule --repo "$REPO" 2>&1)"
+  assert_contains "CLI $v gets --permission-prompts none" "$OUT" "--permission-prompts none"
+done
+OUT="$(CLAUDE_STUB_VERSION=2.0.999 bash "$SCRIPT" print-schedule --repo "$REPO" 2>&1)"
+assert_not_contains "CLI 2.0.999 never gets --permission-prompts" "$OUT" "--permission-prompts"
+OUT="$(CLAUDE_STUB_VERSION=2.1.258 bash "$SCRIPT" print-schedule --repo "$REPO" 2>&1)"
+assert_contains "a CLI below the floor still gets explicit auto" "$OUT" 'run" --permission-mode auto --output-format text'
+assert_not_contains "a CLI below the floor never gets --permission-prompts" "$OUT" "--permission-prompts"
+OUT="$(bash "$SCRIPT" print-schedule --repo "$REPO" 2>&1)"
+assert_not_contains "an unreadable CLI version omits --permission-prompts" "$OUT" "--permission-prompts"
+assert_eq "the --permission-prompts floor matches lane-launcher.sh" \
+  "$(grep '^PERMISSION_PROMPTS_MIN_VERSION=' "$(dirname "$SCRIPT")/lane-launcher.sh")" \
+  "$(grep '^PERMISSION_PROMPTS_MIN_VERSION=' "$SCRIPT")"
+
 # --- 14. Argument validation --------------------------------------------------
 bash "$SCRIPT" bogus --repo "$REPO" >/dev/null 2>&1
 assert_eq "an unknown action exits 3" "3" "$?"