saying-no
saying-no is an Executive communications skill for AI agents, published by mohitagw15856 in the pm-claude-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates saying-no D (68/100) and it passed the safety scan; a judge model has also reviewed it.
Decline a request, push back on scope, or protect priorities without burning the relationship. Use when asked how to say no, turn down a request, push back on your boss/stakeholder, decline extra work, or protect the roadmap from a pet feature. Produces a graceful, firm response — the no, the honest why, an alternative or trade-off, and the exact wording, tuned to who's asking.
- Grade
- D
- Quality
- 68 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 1,187
Placed #1 of 6 in the judged category final for Executive communications.
Our two independent classifiers differ on this skill's category, so treat the placement as provisional.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 100 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections
- Scope
- Portable: works in any project. General communication technique for declining requests
Judge review
Placed #1 of 6 in the judged category final for Executive communications.
- Trigger
88 88 - Instructions
88 88 - Specificity
88 88 - Safety
95 95 - Disclosure
80 80 - Maintenance
55 55
Tightly structured output (acknowledge, the no, the why, the path) with concrete example wording and an explicit anti-pattern checklist, immediately usable even though it fits general workplace pushback better than board-level messaging.
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