Step-by-step recovery procedures for the worst moments in a developer's day. Every section follows the same pattern: diagnose → fix → verify. Commands are non-destructive by default. Destructive steps are flagged.
Emergency Rescue 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/emergency-rescue/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when someone force-pushed to main, leaked credentials in git, ran out of disk space, killed the wrong process, corrupted a database, broke a deploy, locked themselves out of SSH, lost commits after a bad rebase, or hit any other "oh no" moment that needs immediate, calm, step-by-step recovery.
The Emergency Rescue 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 153,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/emergency-rescue curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/emergency-rescue/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/emergency-rescue/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/emergency-rescue/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/emergency-rescue/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\emergency-rescue\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/emergency-rescue/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Emergency Rescue is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{emergency-rescue-2026,
author = {ndesv21},
title = {Emergency Rescue [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/emergency-rescue/}
}Grade B · scanned 2026-07-18 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
The scan flagged 3 of 10 categories (filesystem, network, persistence), including a high-severity pattern. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.
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