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Confirm Destructive Actions

MUST

MUST: Confirm destructive actions or provide Undo window

Require confirmation or provide Undo with a safe window

Bad

Good

Why it matters

Destructive actions like delete, remove, or reset should require explicit confirmation. Show a modal or dialog explaining what will be lost. Alternatively, perform the action but provide an undo option for a reasonable time window (e.g., 5-10 seconds).

References

Built by Gleb Stroganov, design engineer at Evil Martians.

The rules come from other people's skills and guidelines — Vercel, Rauno Freiberg, @Ibelick, impeccable, Emil Kowalski, Tailwind, RAMS — each one credited on the Sources page. The work here is extraction and wiring: every rule is pulled into one corpus, given a good and a bad example you can operate, a MUST/SHOULD/NEVER rule an agent can paste, and a link back to where it came from.