principle-never-block-on-the-human

principle-never-block-on-the-human is a skill for Claude Code from chhoumann/t3-pstack. It costs 24 tokens per session (198 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work-management principle for coding agents: continue with reversible work instead of waiting for a person to approve every small decision. It leaves room for the person to review and correct the result later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when making code edits, updating notes, splitting tasks, or fixing discovered problems without blocking on human input.
Why use it?
It avoids delays caused by asking questions that do not need an immediate answer. It still requires confirmation before irreversible actions such as deleting production data or force-pushing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the t3-pstack plugin — 62 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when making code edits, updating notes, splitting tasks, or fixing discovered problems without blocking on human input.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chhoumann/t3-pstack/principle-never-block-on-the-human
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add chhoumann/t3-pstack --skill principle-never-block-on-the-human
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chhoumann/t3-pstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install t3-pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 198 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00198
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00079
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured yesterday against content hash 05030a7a083c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-never-block-on-the-human scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-never-block-on-the-human/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

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.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed 05030a7a083c
  2. 3d ago First seen · 16 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 060b88f06b57

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principle-never-block-on-the-human is a skill published in the GitHub repository chhoumann/t3-pstack (190 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 198 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-13.

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