principle-never-block-on-the-human
Installation
SKILL.md
Never Block on the Human
Portability (required)
This skill is part of the portable pstack pack.
- Read the
pstackcapability contract and the adapter for the active coding agent before any helper delegation. - Prefer capability verbs (
explore,implement,review,parallel,ask_user,verify,model_role) over vendor tool names. - Resolve models through
model_role. Never require a vendor-specific model identifier. - When helper spawning is unavailable, run the work on the lead agent and state that fan-out was collapsed.
The human supervises asynchronously. Agents must stay unblocked: make reasonable decisions, proceed, and let the human course-correct after the fact. Code is cheap. Waiting is expensive.
Why: Every permission pause stalls the pipeline and makes the human the bottleneck. Since code changes are reversible and reviewable, a wrong decision usually costs less than blocking.