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Use AlertDialog for Destructive Actions

MUST

MUST: Use AlertDialog (not Dialog) for destructive or irreversible actions. AlertDialog traps focus and requires explicit confirmation, preventing accidents.

Always use AlertDialog for destructive or irreversible actions to require explicit confirmation

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Why it matters

A destructive action should not be one stray click away. An AlertDialog differs from a plain Dialog in exactly the ways that matter here: it is modal, it announces as an alertdialog, it takes focus on the safe action, and it will not dismiss on an outside click — so confirming has to be deliberate.

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.