Agent Skill
Principle Never Block On The Human skill
principle-never-block-on-the-humanmichael-denyer/pstack-claudeplugins/pstack/skills/principle-never-block-on-the-human/SKILL.md
Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.
always on
24 tokname + description
once used
160 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
0
repo stars
3.3kGitHub
Install the Principle Never Block On The Human skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill principle-never-block-on-the-human
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude.git /tmp/pstack-claude mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/pstack-claude/plugins/pstack/skills/principle-never-block-on-the-human ~/.claude/skills/principle-never-block-on-the-human
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 24 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 160 tok |
| Only if opened | No bundled files | — |
Until it is used, principle-never-block-on-the-human costs about 57× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 65 skills from michael-denyer/pstack-claude would load 3,163 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Never Block on the Human
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