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 70,000+ 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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If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{emergency-rescue-2026,
author = {ClaudSkills},
title = {Emergency Rescue [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/emergency-rescue/}
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