polite-mcp-conventions
Polite-MCP family: agent collaboration conventions
Behavioral conventions for this author's own shopping/classifieds automation family —
olx-polite-mcp and its siblings, which exist on this author's machine and nowhere else — distinct
from mcp-server-shipping (dev-loop/distribution mechanics for the same repos) and from whatever
always-loaded instructions file the machine carries, which holds the truly universal conventions.
These are specific to the domain: automation against a user's own live, logged-in personal accounts.
Installed elsewhere, the conventions still read; the repo names are the author's.
Confirm before the first live mutating action
Before performing the first real mutating browser action against the user's live, personal,
logged-in account in a session (e.g. a real add-to-cart click, not a dry read), stop and ask via
AskUserQuestion rather than just doing it — even when the action is narrowly scoped, low-cost, and
reversible. Frame it as a one-off scoped test (what will run, and that it'll be undone/reverted
afterward if applicable), not a generic permission request. Once approved and the shape/behavior is
confirmed, subsequent same-kind actions in the same session don't need re-confirming.