Grief and logistics arrive together, and the logistics are designed for someone at their sharpest handed to someone at their worst. The merciful truth this skill is built on: almost nothing is as urgent as it feels. A handful of things genuinely need doing in the first days; most can wait weeks; some should wait (major financial decisions have no place in the first month). This skill triages the chaos into today / this week / can-wait, provides the call scripts, and repeats the one logistical rule everyone learns too late: order more death certificates than seems reasonable.
When Someone Dies is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the operations sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/when-someone-dies/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked someone just died what do I do, checklist after a death, help me handle my parent's affairs, or what needs to happen this week. Produces the triaged timeline (today / this week / can wait), the notification order, the death-certificate math, and the scripts for the hardest calls — written for someone who cannot think straight, because that's who's reading.
The When Someone Dies 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 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/when-someone-dies curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/when-someone-dies/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/when-someone-dies/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/when-someone-dies/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/when-someone-dies/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\when-someone-dies\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/when-someone-dies/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. When Someone Dies 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{when-someone-dies-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {When Someone Dies [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/when-someone-dies/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-02 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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