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name: feedback-owner-approval-style
description: Owner approves by saying "proceed" without answering the plan's open questions — apply the recommended defaults and keep going, but still stop at irreversible external actions
metadata:
  type: feedback
---

When a plan ends with open decisions and the owner replies "proceed" rather than answering them, treat the recommended option for each as chosen and execute — do not re-ask.

**Why:** on the v1.1.0 release (2026-08-12) the plan posed three questions (version number, how far to go, whether to include an adjacent fix); the owner answered "now proceed execution". Re-asking would have stalled work he had already delegated by choosing the recommendation.

**How to apply:** state the applied defaults in the orchestration record so the assumption is visible and correctable, then run. The exception is any action the plan itself parked as owner-authorized — publishing, tagging a release, destructive or external state changes: "proceed" on the plan is not authorization for the step the plan explicitly deferred. See [[project-release-authority]].
