cactus
Ask the human without stopping work. Use cactus instead of AskUserQuestion whenever a question can be posted now and collected later, whenever several decisions belong to one thread, whenever you are announcing what you will do anyway and only need a veto, whenever a command needs approval, or whenever a verify block or an ordered checklist should stay on the human's board across sessions. Triggers on "cactus", "ask the human", "park this question", "put it on the board", "I need a decision but keep going". Do NOT use for a question whose answer you need before the next keystroke and that has no sensible default; that is AskUserQuestion.
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