Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.
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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. Since code changes are reversible and reviewable, a wrong decision usually costs less than blocking.
- Proceed, then present. Do the work, show the result. Don't ask "should I do X?" Do X, explain why.
- Make the system self-healing. When you notice a problem, log it and fix it in the next round.
- 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.
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261010.00b14f1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2wsjplp6v3vfmbg4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cursor/plugins/principle-never-block-on-the-human
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/05030a7a083c337676f793881b4e93cd218e8f1dd676529f56e6ac1d3efb8d1f
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