polite-mcp-conventionslisted
Install: claude install-skill TheodoreAD/agent-skills
# Polite-MCP family: agent collaboration conventions
Behavioral conventions for this author's own shopping/classifieds automation family —
`olx-polite-mcp` and its siblings, which exist on this author's machine and nowhere else — distinct
from `mcp-server-shipping` (dev-loop/distribution mechanics for the same repos) and from whatever
always-loaded instructions file the machine carries, which holds the truly universal conventions.
These are specific to the domain: automation against a user's own live, logged-in personal accounts.
Installed elsewhere, the conventions still read; the repo names are the author's.
## Confirm before the first live mutating action
Before performing the _first_ real mutating browser action against the user's live, personal,
logged-in account in a session (e.g. a real add-to-cart click, not a dry read), stop and ask via
`AskUserQuestion` rather than just doing it — even when the action is narrowly scoped, low-cost, and
reversible. Frame it as a one-off scoped test (what will run, and that it'll be undone/reverted
afterward if applicable), not a generic permission request. Once approved and the shape/behavior is
confirmed, subsequent same-kind actions in the same session don't need re-confirming.
**Why:** this family already treats checkout/personal-account actions as a materially higher-stakes
category than plain reads — every repo's own boundary docs say so (e.g. "checkout is never
automated," no-CAPTCHA-solving). A first live mutation test agai