diff --git a/client/src/components/run/ConsoleTabs.tsx b/client/src/components/run/ConsoleTabs.tsx
index 168127b6..02c941ee 100644
--- a/client/src/components/run/ConsoleTabs.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/run/ConsoleTabs.tsx
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
  * keys, Home and End move between tabs (one tab stop, APG). Errors are
  * toasts. The `+` menu opens a new tab in the free slot the server picks
  * (`slot: "auto"`) — a plain shell (`POST /api/lanes/:id/start {shell: true}`)
- * or an installed, enabled AI tool started bare on its default model, no
- * prompt (a prompt, proxy or worktree is still the workspace home's prompt
+ * or an installed, enabled AI tool started bare on its default model and
+ * the account's Session defaults (permission mode, Codex sandbox/approval/
+ * bypass), no prompt (a prompt, proxy or worktree is still the workspace home's prompt
  * box) — plus a link to Settings → Agents. Ten sessions is the server's limit
  * (`MAX_PANE_SLOT`). The bar is the console's only header: Home (the
  * workspace's home) at its left end, `actions` (the single pane's split menus)
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ import {
   type GroupsUpdate,
 } from "./PaneGrid";
 import { insertionIndex } from "../../lib/laneOrderStorage";
+import { readCodexDefaults, readDefaultMode } from "../../lib/sessionDefaults";
 import {
   type PaneGroups,
   MAX_PANES,
@@ -140,15 +142,21 @@ export function newTabTools(lane: Lane, aiTools: AiToolsState): string[] {
   ];
 }
 
-/** The start body of a bare tool on its default model, no prompt. Only a
- *  different tool is named, as the home does: the workspace's own keeps
- *  starting even once disabled. */
+/** The start body of a bare tool on its default model, no prompt, in the
+ *  account's Session defaults (Claude's permission mode, Codex's sandbox,
+ *  approval and bypass) — the same ones the workspace home's prompt box starts
+ *  from. Only a different tool is named, as the home does: the workspace's own
+ *  keeps starting even once disabled. */
 export function newTabBody(id: string, lane: Lane, aiTools: AiToolsState) {
   const model = aiTools.byId(id)?.defaultModel;
+  const codex = id === "codex" ? readCodexDefaults() : null;
   return {
     prompt: "",
     ...(id !== lane.tool ? { tool: id } : {}),
     ...(model ? { model } : {}),
+    ...(id === "claude" ? { permissionMode: readDefaultMode() } : {}),
+    ...(codex ? { sandbox: codex.sandbox, approval: codex.approval } : {}),
+    ...(codex?.bypass && aiTools.byId(id)?.bypass ? { bypass: true } : {}),
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/client/src/pages/__tests__/Workspace.test.tsx b/client/src/pages/__tests__/Workspace.test.tsx
index 78777d3f..401687ab 100644
--- a/client/src/pages/__tests__/Workspace.test.tsx
+++ b/client/src/pages/__tests__/Workspace.test.tsx
@@ -1053,7 +1053,28 @@ describe("split panes", () => {
     const user = userEvent.setup();
     await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-right-1"));
     await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-new-right-1-claude"));
-    expect(api.lanes.action).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, "start", { slot: "auto", prompt: "" });
+    expect(api.lanes.action).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, "start", {
+      slot: "auto",
+      prompt: "",
+      permissionMode: "auto",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("a new AI pane starts in the account's Session defaults (bypass included)", async () => {
+    localStorage.setItem("agenthub.permissionMode", "bypassPermissions");
+    lanesToReturn = lanesToReturn.map((l) => ({ ...l, tool: "claude" }));
+    withRuns([live(0), live(1)]);
+    await open("/workspace?lane=1&run=agenthub-lane-1");
+    await ctrlClick(screen.getByTestId("console-tab-1"));
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-right-1"));
+    await user.click(screen.getByTestId("pane-split-new-right-1-claude"));
+    expect(api.lanes.action).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, "start", {
+      slot: "auto",
+      prompt: "",
+      permissionMode: "bypassPermissions",
+    });
+    localStorage.removeItem("agenthub.permissionMode");
   });
 
   it("with one pane, the split menus sit beside Tools and split it", async () => {