Crisis Holding Statements
Draft defensible first-hour crisis statements with a hard legal-counsel gate
- What
- Draft defensible first-hour crisis statements with a hard legal-counsel gate
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — no account, no API keys. Most useful if you handle communications for a company or organization and may face a brewing incident.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — the comms operator for a brewing crisis: it drafts first-hour holding statements, journalist Q&A posture, and what-not-to-say guidance from confirmed incident facts only, through proven crisis frameworks — the five-slot holding-statement anatomy (acknowledge → what's known → action being taken → committed next-update time → where to direct questions), SCCT responsibility matching, CAP order, and the legitimate non-answer. Its doctrine: tell the truth, tell it fast, tell it all; never speculate — one falsehood forfeits all credibility. A hard legal-counsel gate is built in: it refuses to draft until you've answered a structured intake of confirmed facts. Discovered via skills.sh, listed here with credit to its creator by @elvisun. Honest caveats: comms craft, not legal advice — run everything past counsel; built for company incidents (product safety, data security, outages, viral backlash), not launches or ordinary press releases; it slows you down on purpose — that's the point. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
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Install
Prerequisites: none — no account, no API keys. Most useful if you handle communications for a company or organization and may face a brewing incident. Install "Crisis Holding Statements" for me. A crisis-comms workflow skill that drafts first-hour holding statements, journalist Q&A posture, and what-not-to-say guidance from confirmed incident facts only — using the holding-statement anatomy, SCCT responsibility matching, and CAP order — with a hard legal-counsel gate before any drafting. Repository: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the crisis-holding skill (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "crisis-holding". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. gather the confirmed incident facts — times, scope, actions taken — before the first draft). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.