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+name: "WhatsApp and Slack permission prompt forwarding"
+---
+
+# Story 394: WhatsApp and Slack permission prompt forwarding
+
+## User Story
+
+As a WhatsApp or Slack user, I want permission requests from Claude Code to be forwarded to my chat so I can approve or deny them, rather than having them silently fail.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] Permission requests are sent as messages to the WhatsApp sender with tool name and input details
+- [ ] User can reply yes/y/approve or no/n/deny to approve or deny the permission
+- [ ] Permission requests time out and auto-deny (fail-closed) if not answered within the configured timeout
+- [ ] Slack receives the same permission forwarding treatment
+- [ ] Reuses the existing permission channel infrastructure (perm_rx, PermissionForward, PermissionDecision)
+- [ ] Matrix permission handling is completely unaffected
+- [ ] handle_llm_message uses a tokio::select! loop (like Matrix bot.rs) to listen for both LLM output and permission requests concurrently
+
+## Out of Scope
+
+- TBD