crisis-comms-external SKILL.md skillA
crisis-comms-external from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/crisis-comms-external@git:20260705.a28c4cePins git:20260705.a28c4ce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/crisis-comms-external/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260705.a28c4ce, committed Jul 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 12,079 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Drafts and sequences external communications during an incident or crisis - a first statement within the hour, acknowledge-what-you-know-without-speculating discipline, a single-spokesperson rule, channel sequencing from status page to email to social, and a legal-review escalation boundary, with severity-tiered statement templates. Use when a user says "we have an outage and customers are asking questions", "we had a data breach, what do we say publicly…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Crisis Comms External In a crisis, silence is a statement - and it says "we don't know" or "we're hiding something," both of which customers and journalists will fill in for you. The costly mistake this skill prevents is the double failure that defines botched crisis comms: waiting hours for complete information before saying anything, then over-speaking with speculation that later proves wrong and must be retracted. The discipline is the opposite pairing - speak fast, but say only what is verified. ## Operating procedure Steps 1-3 happen in the first hour, in parallel where possible. The clock starts when the organization becomes aware customers are affected, not when the root cause is found. ### Step 1: Classify severity and open the log Classify immediately, because severity drives everything downstream - template, channels, legal involvement: - **SEV-A - Trust events:** data breach, security incident, safety issue, anything touching personal data or money. Legal review is mandatory before any external statement (see Step 6). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/crisis-comms-external@sha256:15c4d2713b628eb5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260705.a28c4ce, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 5, 2026.
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| git:20260705.a28c4ce latest | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 12,079 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 12,161 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5bzagc45sdm5pn6v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/crisis-comms-external GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15c4d2713b628eb532662fbf5281913ce674150c464f446839173253e08de156
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.