# crisis-and-moderation

Crisis playbook for handling social media backlashes, deepfakes, and community moderation. It guides holding statements and triage.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 599 installs · ★ 199
- Author: social-media-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/crisis-and-moderation

## What it does

This skill handles emergencies on social platforms, including pile-ons, synthetic media, and operational outages. It starts by pulling the tone from `brand-profile.md` or `voice.md`. Then it classifies the incident by severity. Low-level complaints go to support, while legal risks reach leadership immediately.

Human oversight remains mandatory throughout. The assistant never posts on its own. Instead, it prepares holding copy across four phases: acknowledge, investigate, respond, and follow up. If scheduled marketing looks tone-deaf, it helps pause the queue via `scheduling-and-queue`.

WoopSocial has no native tools for comment moderation or blocking accounts. All comment hiding, user bans, and final post approvals happen manually on each platform.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill crisis-and-moderation -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/crisis-and-moderation/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill crisis-and-moderation -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill crisis-and-moderation -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install social-media-skills/skills crisis-and-moderation
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill crisis-and-moderation -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills --path skills/crisis-and-moderation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill crisis-and-moderation -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/crisis-and-moderation/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- triage social media backlashes by risk level and incident category
- draft initial holding statements within an hour of an incident
- pause queued marketing campaigns during sensitive events
- rebut brand deepfakes and false claims using verified evidence

## Example prompts
- We're getting piled on in the comments, how should we handle this?
- Someone created a deepfake of our product launch, draft our response.
- The platform is down and users are furious, pause scheduled posts and write an update.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: crisis-and-moderation
description: >-
  Use when something goes wrong on social — the crisis-and-moderation playbook for negative
  moments, pile-ons, misinformation/deepfakes about the brand, offensive-post backlash, and
  community moderation. Run when the user says "we're getting piled on," "someone's
  spreading false info about us," "should we delete/hide this," "a deepfake of our brand," or
  needs to moderate a community. Reads brand-profile/voice. Confirm facts and triage severity
  first; acknowledge fast; speak human, not legalese; correct misinformation with evidence, not
  an apology; moderate fairly (hide abuse, leave honest criticism). HIGH-STAKES and
  human-in-the-loop: a crisis is when the agent must NOT act autonomously — it triages,
  drafts holding statements, and can pause/reschedule posts via scheduling-and-queue, while a
  HUMAN (and legal/leadership for high-severity) approves everything and moderates in-platform.
  WoopSocial has no comment/inbox/moderation surface; never auto-respond or fabricate facts.
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
---

# Crisis & Moderation

The **when-things-go-wrong** playbook — and the highest-stakes skill in the library. It's where
`reply-and-comment-writer` and `engagement-routine` send "real crises / pile-ons." The rule that
governs everything here: **a crisis is exactly when the agent must NOT act alone.** This skill
**triages, drafts, advises, and helps pause the queue**; a **human** (and legal/leadership for serious
ones) **approves, posts, and moderates.**

## Step 0 — Read the brand + the situation

Load `brand-profile.md` / `voice.md` (the voice still applies, a touch more serious). Get what actually
happened from the user — don't act on a half-picture.

## Step 1 — Triage first (don't react yet)

**Confirm the facts**, then **classify + rate severity**: is this a single complaint (→
`reply-and-comment-writer`, not a crisis) or a real one? **Low** = customer care; **medium** = PR/
support; **high** = legal + leadership. Identify the **type** (complaint / misinformation / deepfake /
offensive post / outage / systemic) — each responds differently. See `references/triage-and-severity.md`.

## Step 2 — Respond (Acknowledge → Investigate → Respond → Follow Up)

- **Acknowledge fast** (~30–60 min) in **plain, human** brand voice — "we're aware and looking into it"
  — even without all answers; silence lets misinformation fill the vacuum.
- **Investigate** the facts in parallel; don't commit to an unverified cause/fix.
- **Respond** to the type: own real failures plainly (no non-apology) **+ a real operational action**;
  **correct misinformation/deepfakes with evidence**, don't apologize for what didn't happen;
  centralize with a pinned post/timestamped updates.
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