Damage Control

What it does

When your agent uses it

• An agent session fails
• A worktree is corrupted

Example prompts

• “Use the damage-control skill to recover broken agent state via crash recovery, context overflow, and merge conflict protocols”
• “/damage-control”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1What could fail in production? List specific failure
2. 2How would we detect it quickly? Monitoring, alerts,
3. 3What is the fastest safe rollback? Step-by-step
4. 4What dependency could invalidate this plan? External
5. 5What assumption is least certain? Weakest link in

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Damage Control loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 43 tokens; SKILL.md has 452 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~43

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 452 words, ~1,304 tokens.

name

damage-control

description

Recovers broken agent state via crash recovery, context overflow, and merge conflict protocols. Use when an agent session fails or a worktree is corrupted.

alwaysApply

false

category

infrastructure

tags

recovery, resilience, crash, context, conflicts, state

dependencies

error-patterns

provides.infrastructure

crash-recovery-protocol, context-overflow-protocol, merge-conflict-resolution, state-reconciliation

provides.patterns

damage-triage, recovery-checkpoints

usage_patterns

agent-crash-recovery, context-limit-handling, conflict-resolution, session-state-repair

complexity

intermediate

model_hint

standard

estimated_tokens

450

flowchart TD
    A[Failure detected] --> B{Agent process crashed\nor exited unexpectedly?}
    B -->|Yes| C[modules/crash-recovery.md]
    B -->|No| D{Context limit hit or\nprior decisions unavailable?}
    D -->|Yes| E[modules/context-overflow.md]
    D -->|No| F{git merge / rebase /\ncherry-pick conflicts?}
    F -->|Yes| G[modules/merge-conflict-resolution.md]
    F -->|No| H{State internally inconsistent?\ntask list vs disk vs git index}
    H -->|Yes| I[modules/state-reconciliation.md]
    H -->|No| J[No damage-control needed]

# In your skill's frontmatter
dependencies: [leyline:damage-control]

# Crash detected
Skill(leyline:damage-control) → modules/crash-recovery.md

# Context limit reached
Skill(leyline:damage-control) → modules/context-overflow.md

© athola, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files in plugins/leyline/skills/damage-control of athola/claude-night-market.

• SKILL.md
• modules/context-overflow.md
• modules/crash-recovery.md
• modules/merge-conflict-resolution.md
• modules/risk-assessment-checklist.md
• modules/state-reconciliation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in athola/claude-night-market, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• majiayu000/claude-skill-registryskills/agent/damage-control