Principle Never Block On The Human
- 399 installs
- 2.5k repo stars
- Updated August 5, 2026
- cursor/plugins
When credentials, approvals, or missing context appear, continue with safe defaults, parallel prep, and documented assumptions instead of stalling the task.
About
Establishes an autonomy rule for Cursor agents: never halt execution solely because a human has not replied—pursue verifiable progress, record assumptions and blockers clearly, and keep momentum while flagging what truly requires human decision or secrets.
- Continue with safe assumptions
- Prepare parallel fallback paths
- Log blockers for human follow-up
- Avoid idle waiting loops
- Resume when input arrives
Principle Never Block On The Human by the numbers
- 399 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #1,970 of 16,546 AI & Agent Building skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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| Installs | 399 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 2.5k |
| Last updated | August 5, 2026 |
| Repository | cursor/plugins ↗ |
What it does
When credentials, approvals, or missing context appear, continue with safe defaults, parallel prep, and documented assumptions instead of stalling the task.
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Never Block on the Human
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.
Pattern:
- Proceed, then present. Do the work, show the result. Don't ask "should I do X?" Do X, explain why.
- Reserve questions for genuine ambiguity. Ask only when you truly cannot infer intent from context.
- Make the system self-healing. When you notice a problem, log it and fix it in the next round.
- Supervision is async. The human reviews plans, diffs, and changes on their own schedule. Design workflows for review-after-the-fact.
- Code is cheap, attention is scarce. A wrong implementation costs minutes to fix. A blocked agent costs the human's attention to unblock.
Boundaries:
- Irreversible actions (force-push, delete production data, send external messages) still require confirmation.
- Reversible actions (write code, edit notes, split tasks) should proceed without blocking.
- Product direction comes from the human; execution should not block.
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