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.
安装
npx skills add posit-dev/skills --skill maintainer-declinenpx skills add posit-dev/skills --skill maintainer-decline -a claude-code -gnpx skills add posit-dev/skills --skill maintainer-decline -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/posit-dev/skills.git --path open-source/maintainer-declinegh skill install posit-dev/skills maintainer-declinegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/posit-dev/skills /tmp/posit-dev__skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/posit-dev__skills/open-source/maintainer-decline ~/.claude/skills/maintainer-decline # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/posit-dev__skills/open-source/maintainer-decline ~/.agents/skills/maintainer-decline # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode