How do I install the Crisis War Room Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/crisis-war-room/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / Security / appsec-tools

Crisis War Room

Category: Security · Sub-category: appsec-tools · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Startup crisis management operating system covering 14 crisis types with severity scoring, escalation matrices, war room protocols, stakeholder communication playbooks, runway extension, co-founder conflict resolution, PR crisis management, data breach response, regulatory crisis, customer churn emergency, product failure recovery, key person risk mitigation, graceful shutdown planning, and pivot decision frameworks. Includes India-specific crisis protocols for RBI/SEBI regulatory action, GST notices, MCA non-compliance, labor disputes, and NCLT proceedings. Use when user mentions crisis, emergency, fire, broken, failing, dying, shutdown, pivot, runway, burn rate, co-founder conflict, PR disaster, data breach, layoff, down round, churn spike, regulatory action, legal threat, or any urgent startup survival situation.

From the source SKILL.md

The startup crisis command center. Not theory — executable battle-tested protocols for the 14 crisis types that kill startups. Every protocol has severity scoring, escalation triggers, communication templates, and recovery playbooks.

What this skill does

Crisis War Room is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the appsec-tools sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/crisis-war-room/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when user mentions crisis, emergency, fire, broken, failing, dying, shutdown, pivot, runway, burn rate, co-founder conflict, PR disaster, data breach, layoff, down round, churn spike, regulatory action, legal threat, or any urgent startup survival situation.

Who uses this skill

The Crisis War Room Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/crisis-war-room
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/crisis-war-room/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/crisis-war-room/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/crisis-war-room/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/crisis-war-room/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\crisis-war-room\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

License: MIT

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APA

ClaudSkills. (2026). Crisis War Room [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/crisis-war-room/

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@misc{crisis-war-room-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Crisis War Room [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/crisis-war-room/}
}

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