Principle Human Owns The Ends

Reserves goals and shipping decisions for the user. Apply when deciding whether autonomous work may proceed or finish.

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The Human Owns the Ends

Keep two decisions human: what to build and what to ship; run everything between autonomously, with PR review as the checkpoint.

  • Never pause an autonomous run to triage findings.
  • Loop Blocking and Major findings through the fixer automatically.
  • Put Minor-and-below findings in PR review notes; Minor is the human's queue, not a wastebasket.
  • Never land on the system's own judgment; open PRs autonomously, but require a human merge decision.
  • Defer questions that can wait to PR review.
  • Halt blocked runs terminally and report instead of asking permission to continue.

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