When someone you care about is going through something awful, the fear of saying the wrong thing makes many people freeze and pull away — exactly when their friend needs them most. Showing up well is a skill: it's less about perfect words and more about presence, not-fixing, and concrete help. This tells you what to say (and the clichés to avoid), how to be there over time, and when it's beyond what a friend can hold.
Support A Friend In Crisis 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/support-a-friend-in-crisis/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked how do I support a friend going through, what do I say to someone who's struggling, my friend is in crisis, or how can I help someone grieving. Produces what to actually say (and the clichés to avoid), how to be present rather than fix, specific concrete help to offer, how to keep showing up over time, and how to look after yourself — with a clear flag to steer them to professional/crisis help when it's beyond a friend.
The Support A Friend In Crisis 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 178,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\support-a-friend-in-crisis\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/support-a-friend-in-crisis/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. Support A Friend In Crisis is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General 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{support-a-friend-in-crisis-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Support A Friend In Crisis [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/support-a-friend-in-crisis/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-07 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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