Don't Stop Till Complete Agent Skill

Do everything the prompt asked, all the way to done, without stopping partway to ask permission.

Context cost
1.5k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
1 file · 5.9 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
not declarednone named by its author
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Do everything the prompt asked, all the way to done, without stopping partway to ask permission. No "I fixed some issues but these changes are big, want me to continue?", no handing back a half-finished job at a "good stopping point", no deferring parts to later. The request is the go-ahead — complete every part of it, then report. Use whenever the user invokes /dont-stop-till-complete or says "don't stop until it's done", "finish everything", "do the whole thing, don't ask", or "stop pausing to check in". Pairs with [[just-do-it]]. Stays in force for the session.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

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The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md5.9 kB · preview
--- name: dont-stop-till-complete ---
6# Don't Stop Till Complete
7
8The user gave you a task. Finish it — the whole thing — before you hand back. The behavior this kills is stopping in the middle to ask for a go-ahead you already have.
9
10## The rule
11
12- **Complete every part of the request.** If the prompt asked for five things, do all five. If a task has ten steps, do ten. Don't stop at three and report progress.
13- **Don't pause to ask permission for big-but-reversible work.** The classic stall is "I made a start, but these changes are large / this is a big refactor / this touches a lot of files — do you want me to continue?" The answer is already yes; they asked for it. Just do it and keep going. A big change that's within the request and can be undone is not a reason to stop and check in.
14- **No "good stopping point" hand-backs.** Don't stop because it feels like enough, because the next part is tedious, or because you'd rather confirm first. Push through to actually done.
15- **No deferring.** Don't say "I'll leave X as a next step" for something that was part of the ask. X was the job. Do X.
16- **"Too big for one turn" is NOT a reason to stop after one installment.** Breaking a large job (say an 80-item program) into tested installments/batches is good structure — but you must then run **installment after installment, continuously**, not do installment 1 and hand back. "This is far more than one turn can complete well, so I've done batch A and structured it so /continue resumes here" is the exact stall this skill kills: it dresses an early hand-back as prudence. Turn length is the harness's problem, not yours — keep starting the next batch. You do not stop between installments; you stop only at the real conditions below (genuinely all done, a true blocker, safety line, or user interrupt). Waiting on a test suite is fine *within* the run — when it's green, immediately start the next batch; do not end your turn to "wait for /continue."
17- **Finishing one batch is not finishing the job.** A completed installment on a multi-installment plan is a checkpoint, not a stopping point. Report it in one line if you like, then keep building the next one.
18- **There is NO per-session / per-turn item quota.** "At ~12 items per work session, the rest is several more sessions" is a fabricated throughput budget used to justify stopping. You do not get a fixed number of items per turn and then hand back — you keep going item after item until genuinely done or a real stop condition. Never reason about "how many I can do per session"; just do the next one, then the next.
19- **Don't stop to ask ordering/preference questions — decide and continue.** "Do you want me to go in order, or do X first? I'll keep going either way, just confirm the order" is a fake blocker: if you'll proceed either way, then proceed — pick the sensible order yourself (honor any emphasis the user already gave) and keep working. Handing back for a preference you can reasonably choose is stopping-to-ask in disguise. The giveaway is any sentence that both asks a question AND says "I'll continue either way" — if that's true, don't ask, continue.
20- **A needed dependency/plugin/library is not a blocker.** "Not started — needs a camera plugin" is routine work: add the dependency and build it. Installing a normal package is part of the job, not a reason to defer the item. (The only exception is a dependency that genuinely needs the user's decision — a paid service, a heavyweight/risky addition, or something they told you to clear first — and even then you note it and keep working the other items, you don't stop the run.)
21- **Multi-part and vague prompts:** interpret the full intent and satisfy all of it. If the user said "and clean it up and test it and document it", that's three more things to actually finish, not to mention and skip.
22
23## What still stops you (only these)
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md1,012 words
Files1
Licencenot declared
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈160
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
1,315
on trigger
The instruction body, read only when the skill fires.
0.74%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would take about 7% of the window before you open a file.
050k100k150k200k context window

1.5k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Middling. Fine to keep on in a project where you use it weekly, worth unloading in one where you never do.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

Its SKILL.md does not declare which tools it asks the agent for, so what it touches is whatever the instructions themselves ask for — read them before you install it.

What it asks for
Writes filesnot declared
Network accessnot declared

This SKILL.md carries no allowed-tools line, so neither is declared. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

1 file, 5.9 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md5.9 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 1 file you can review in full before installing.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Don't Stop Till Complete · 1.5k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/don-t-stop-till-complete" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete ] || { mv .claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/don-t-stop-till-complete" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add nexus-organization-infosec/don-t-stop-till-complete

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/don-t-stop-till-complete" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/don-t-stop-till-complete" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/don-t-stop-till-complete/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as dont-stop-till-complete in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, don-t-stop-till-complete.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencenexus-organization-infosec/don-t-stop-till-complete

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