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doc-trade-off-memo

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By polar-bear-org/claude-skills (GitHub) · design · 54 stars · scanned at commit 95f0180

Writes a Trade-off Memo that sets one incoming request against the work it would displace, with the cost of delay of each, a recommendation and the costed no reply ready for you to send. Use for "run doc-trade-off-memo", "why we are not building it", "help me say no to this request", "what would this push out", "cost of delay for this ask", "write the costed no", "the CEO wants this feature this quarter", "defend the roadmap against this request", part of the Claude Docs for Product Managers Pa…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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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/'doc-trade-off-memo' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'doc-trade-off-memo' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named doc-trade-off-memo already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/polar-bear-org/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '95f01806ca43f6ee788d0579743e35853b695930' -- 'packs/docs-for-product-managers-pack/skills/doc-trade-off-memo' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packs/docs-for-product-managers-pack/skills/doc-trade-off-memo' ~/.agents/skills/'doc-trade-off-memo' && 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/'doc-trade-off-memo' ~/.claude/skills/'doc-trade-off-memo' (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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