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Degraded Mode Design

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: general-misc  ·  Last updated:
Decision-aid skill for fail-closed vs fail-open behavior. Forces a degraded-mode matrix and rejects "type Y to override" prompts in favor of multi-step ceremonies

From the source SKILL.md

Decision aid for what a system does when something goes wrong: a key is missing, a verification fails, a sensor times out, a network partition is detected. Use when designing or reviewing any code path labeled "emergency", "fallback", "recovery", or "graceful degradation".

What this skill does

Degraded Mode Design is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/degraded-mode-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Degraded Mode Design Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. 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/degraded-mode-design
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/degraded-mode-design/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/degraded-mode-design/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/degraded-mode-design/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

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

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ClaudSkills. (2026). Degraded Mode Design [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/degraded-mode-design/
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@misc{degraded-mode-design-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Degraded Mode Design [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/degraded-mode-design/}
}

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