maintainer-decline

Guide for drafting issue closure and decline responses as an open-source package maintainer.

What this skill does for you

Guide for drafting issue closure and decline responses as an open-source package maintainer. Use when helping compose a reply that says "no" to a feature request, closes an issue as won't-fix, redirects a user to a different package, explains why a design choice is intentional, or otherwise declines or closes a community contribution. Also use when the maintainer needs to explain a deprecation, point out a user misunderstanding, or communicate an effort/scope tradeoff to a contributor.

Quoted from the skill description in the pinned source

Who made it

Publisherposit-dev

Repositoryskills

Installs328as of Sep 27, 2026

Use it with Edge

Set up Edge for me: read getedge.cc/SKILL.md and follow it. Then use Edge to load the maintainer-decline skill from posit-dev/skills.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

Or read the skill source first.

Security evidence

Security state at 2026-09-30: reviewed. State definitions. This records static evidence for this revision; live load eligibility is checked again.

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. The listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

Static scans check the code, not how well the skill works.

Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: 1bb49b8eecba38f04d39c2e6ddb8f8871382fe72. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: 1bb49b8eecba38f04d39c2e6ddb8f8871382fe72. Raw findings: 1. Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: 1bb49b8eecba38f04d39c2e6ddb8f8871382fe72. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/posit-dev/skills
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: 1bb49b8eecba38f04d39c2e6ddb8f8871382fe72
Package hash: sha256:0d5b34f70b99831d3e1519aac7baf3aade4da29104c90cd3c00d9068f1b4e46d
Licence: MIT