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Agenda Or Cancel
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Enforce the simplest meeting rule that works — no agenda, no meeting — with the three-line agenda format (purpose, decisions sought, pre-reads), the 24-hour rule, and the graceful cancel scripts. Use when asked write an agenda for this meeting, should this meeting happen, our meetings have no agendas, or cancel this meeting politely. Produces the three-line agenda, the happen-or-cancel verdict, the cancel/convert scripts, and the team norm rollout.
What to give it
▸The meeting's claimed purpose — what the organizer thinks it's for; the agenda attempt tests whether that survives writing down
▸The attendee list and length — the cost side (people × time), which the purpose must justify
▸What a good outcome looks like — a decision? alignment? information moved? If the outcome is "information moved," the convert-to-async branch is already winning
▸The recurring-or-oneoff status — recurring meetings route to [standing-meeting-audit](../standing-meeting-audit/SKILL.md) for the deeper treatment
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The outcomes line contains decisions or artifacts, not topic nouns
✓Pre-reads carry their time cost
✓The verdict came from the writing attempt, not from meeting-hating priors
✓Every script is usable by the most junior attendee
✓Recurring meetings were routed to the audit instead of one-off verdicts
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not write topic agendas — "discuss roadmap" is a location, not a purpose
Do not accept "we'll figure it out live" — that's the agenda test failing in real time, at full attendance
Do not use the rule as a weapon — the verdict includes "happen"; meeting-zero is not the goal, meeting-earned is
Do not ship the agenda at meeting-start — unprepped deciders are attendees
Do not install the norm by decree — the leader's own cancelled meeting is the announcement
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
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