posit-dev/skills · open-source/maintainer-decline/SKILL.md

maintainer-decline skillA

maintainer-decline is agent-read markdown (skill) from posit-dev/skills: 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..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add posit-dev/skills/maintainer-decline@git:20260521.928d934
Exact content
mdr add posit-dev/skills/maintainer-decline@sha256:3fbddc56953dc41e

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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git:20260521.928d934 latest2026-05-21 928d934 9,452 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9452 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

posit-dev/skills · 516 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xhneibbro2jsw7ro
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=posit-dev/skills/maintainer-decline
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3fbddc56953dc41e2f7911aee211b2f85bdf96de16258d6e3d5628e6885462a3

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