set-gate

squadrant:set-gate — Permission Gate Mode

defaults.gate.mode (#782/#828) controls whether squadrant's own classifier decides a router-backed crew/captain's PermissionRequest, instead of Claude Code's built-in auto-mode classifier (which is hardcoded to Claude Sonnet 5 and fails closed on a router backend).

Modes

Mode	Meaning
on	squadrant's gate decides — the configured engine (router or auto-gate) classifies each request.
off	The gate never touches a PermissionRequest — the agent's normal permission flow is untouched.
auto	Yield to the agent's own built-in classifier. Default when the field is absent — zero behavior change.

Get current mode

squadrant gate mode

Prints the effective mode and where it came from: env (the SQUADRANT_GATE override), config (defaults.gate.mode), or default (auto, field absent).

Set mode

squadrant gate mode on
squadrant gate mode off
squadrant gate mode auto

• Validates the value (errors with the 3 valid options if invalid).
• Writes defaults.gate.mode via the existing saveConfig atomic path.
• Prints old → new.
• No daemon bounce needed — defaults.gate.mode is not daemon-cached; the CLI reads it live on every hook invocation.
• If SQUADRANT_GATE is set in the current shell session, it still overrides the config value for that session — the command warns when this is the case.

Status (classifier + credential, nice-to-have)

squadrant gate status

Prints the effective mode + source, the resolved engine, the resolved classifier model, and whether the engine's credential resolves (present/absent). Never prints the credential value itself.

Manual edit (fallback)

If the CLI is unavailable, edit ~/.config/squadrant/config.json directly:

{
  "defaults": {
    "gate": {
      "mode": "on"
    }
  }
}

Valid values: "on" | "off" | "auto". Absent field is equivalent to "auto".