What is blocking ask for a team that runs agents.
What is blocking ask: A blocking ask holds the next step until a person answers. In Kovnor every blocking ask has a deadline and a default, so it never blocks forever. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock. You are asked only when it takes a person, in Waiting on you.
A blocking ask is a request that holds the next step until a person answers. Not every question blocks. A team with several agents should mark the ones that do, or work stops for trivia, or worse, continues without the decision. The ask blocks inside the project. It does not pause the vendor's bill. While it is open, other agents that were going to build on this step should see that the step is waiting, not invent an approval.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
How blocking ask shows up in Kovnor
A blocking ask reaches Waiting on you with a recommendation. Agents waiting on it see that the step is waiting and do not invent an approval. Other work toward the outcome keeps moving.
What blocking ask is not
A blocking ask is not a status ping and not a cost report. It does not freeze every agent in the project.
Questions
How does blocking ask show up in the product?
A blocking ask reaches Waiting on you with a recommendation. Agents waiting on it see that the step is waiting and do not invent an approval. Other work toward the outcome keeps moving.
What is blocking ask not?
A blocking ask is not a status ping and not a cost report. It does not freeze every agent in the project.
Why does blocking ask matter for an outcome?
A blocking ask holds the next step until a person answers. In Kovnor every blocking ask has a deadline and a default, so it never blocks forever.
Related
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
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