What do I need to use Boundary-Setting Scripts?

The situation; What you need; The relationship; The dynamic; Your goal.

Is Boundary-Setting Scripts free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Boundary-Setting Scripts

Q: How do I know the Boundary-Setting Scripts output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Turns a vague frustration into a specific, statable boundary; Script is warm and firm, without over-explaining or apologizing; Includes hold-the-line responses to pushback/guilt; Attaches a real consequence with follow-through.

🔵 Stable 🔷 SkillSpec L3 other

Set a boundary with someone — a friend, family member, coworker, or partner — clearly and kindly, with the actual words and a plan for the pushback. Use when asked how do I set a boundary with, I need to say no to, someone keeps overstepping, or help me set limits with. Produces a read on the boundary you actually need, a warm-but-firm script to state it (without over-explaining or apologizing it away), how to hold it when they push back or guilt-trip, and what to do if they don't respect it — because a boundary you can't state and hold isn't a boundary.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“How do I set a boundary with my mom about dropping by unannounced?”“I need to tell a friend I can't keep lending money — what do I say?”“A coworker keeps dumping work on me. Help me set a limit.”“How do I say no without feeling guilty?”“Someone keeps overstepping and I don't know how to stop it.”

What to give it

▸The situation — who, and what they're doing that you need to change

▸What you need — the specific limit (time, behavior, topic, availability)

▸The relationship — friend, family, partner, coworker, boss (changes tone and leverage)

▸The dynamic — how they usually react, and whether you've raised it before

▸Your goal — change the behavior while keeping the relationship, or a firmer stance

✅ 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.

✓Turns a vague frustration into a specific, statable boundary

✓Script is warm and firm, without over-explaining or apologizing

✓Includes hold-the-line responses to pushback/guilt

✓Attaches a real consequence with follow-through

✓Tone is calibrated to the specific relationship

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Over-explaining/apologizing** the boundary into nothing.

**Hinting** instead of stating it.

**No plan for the pushback** — folding at the first guilt-trip.

**A boundary with no consequence** — just a suggestion.

**Same tone** for a boss and a parent.

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 -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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