saying-no-kindly
100 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try.
Decline requests without damaging relationships or your standing — the fast-clear-warm formula, the alternative-attached no, the no-to-the-boss version (tradeoffs, not refusal), and scripts for the asks that recur. Use when asked how do I say no to this, turn down a request, decline extra work politely, I say yes to everything and drown, push back on my manager, or protect the roadmap from a pet feature. Produces the decline scripts by relationship, the tradeoff framing, and the exact wording t…
What this skill can do
We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'saying-no-kindly' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'saying-no-kindly' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named saying-no-kindly already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'edb6995427bac9d948775258a82aeecced60ceb1' -- 'skills/saying-no-kindly' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/saying-no-kindly' ~/.agents/skills/'saying-no-kindly' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'saying-no-kindly' ~/.claude/skills/'saying-no-kindly' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | edb6995 | 100 |
| 2026-11-08 | 0246bd4 | 100 |
| 2026-11-07 | 0246bd4 | 95 |